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Southern California's Top 10 Most Popular Tech Stories Of The Year

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end-of-the-year coverage, we've run through our web statistics and figured out which were the. venture capital exits in. 2011, showing a reduced number of exits--but more IPOs--in venture backed companies. Incubators, Part I - In February, we put together a guide to the list of (then. As part of our.

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7 Seed-Stage Funding Sources To Finance Your Startup

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According to recent statistics , there are already over 500 website crowdfunding platforms, such as Kickstarter , available; and over $5 billion was raised this way last year. A seed-stage “super angel.” Ron Conway , of SV Angels, and Reid Hoffman , LinkedIn's founder, are names often mentioned in this category.

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Streamlining The Sports Recruiting Process with FieldLevel

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That''s what Los Angeles-based FieldLevel (www.fieldlevel.com) has been working on, making it easier for coaches to network and exchange information on athletes. Form there, we got interest from incubators, angel investors, and venture capital. That''s the quantitative analysis of statistics to find players.

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Web 1.0 Entrepreneurs: we are roadkill unless we learn to run as fast as today’s founders.

Steve Reich

As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. Let me give you a few examples: SwingbySwing Golf created an iPhone/Android app that lets golfers use the GPS in their phone to measure distance to the hole and track statistics. Remember how we used to do it?

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10 Positive Signs For Starting Your Own Business Now

Startup Professionals Musings

Last year 300,000+ American angels invested an estimated $25 billion in more than 70,000 startup deals. Crowd funding is setting new records worldwide, with $17 billion from North America alone, and VCs poured another $100 billion more into small growth companies last year. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere.

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10 Reasons For Joining The New Startup Wave Now

Startup Professionals Musings

According to Statistic Brain , angel investors, numbering almost 300,000, contributed a record $25 billion to early-stage startups in the U.S. With more startups, angels still limit their focus to about one out of 40 requests. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

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He currently works for Founders Fund and coordinates FF Angel LLC, a seed-stage investment program; as well as fbFund REV, a micro-seed incubator program for Facebook-related startups. Quilici is also a member of the board of directors of NeoEdge Networks and a member of Tech Coast Angels. Founder and senior writer for GigaOm.