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MySpace Startups: Startups From MySpace Vets

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Los Angeles-based MySpace has been among the most visible of Southern California's Internet era success stories, although the site--now owned by News Corporation--has had its own share of ups-and-downs, as well as questions about its future. Here are four startups of them, and what they're doing: Demand Media. www.demandmedia.com).

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What Startups Can Learn From The Pizza Business: Samit Varma

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In our interviews, we normally talk to entrepreneurs, investors, and others involved in the technology startup industry. The whole process takes about six minutes, from where you start ordering to where you have hot pizza on your table, with your own personalized toppings. We''re sort of set up the same way.

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Quid Connects With $320M For Private Liquidity Fund

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Santa Monica-based Quid , which offers up a way for private company employees to gain liquidity even before their startups are purchased or have an initial public offering, said on Monday that it has raised $320M in a second fund. Quid's service is an alternative to secondary market sales. READ MORE>>.

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TrueCar Launches New Pricing Tool

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Santa Monica-based TrueCar.com , the online automotive pricing startup headed up by Scott Painter, said Thursday that it has launched a new tool to help new car buyers. TrueCar uses actual car sales data from local dealers to present car shoppers with information on the actual prices paid for new cars in their neighborhood.

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Last Exit Wall Street: 7 Considerations When Raising Venture Capital

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While taking a startup public is a goal most entrepreneurs dream of, the general rule of thumb is the more capital your raise the more control you have to cede and the less tolerance your investors will have of poor financial performance. By this measure, Groupon was by no means your typical start-up.

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3 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know about Indiana Innovation

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Indiana is home to the global headquarters for Anthem, Cook Medical, Dow AgroSciences, and Eli Lilly and Company, as well as the North American headquarters for Roche Diagnostics. That law helped kick-start the modern tech transfer field. Some of these entrepreneurs are faculty and staff members who license their own work. The results?

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Interview with Derrick Oien, Intercasting

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Derrick Oien: We have a platform we develop, called ANTHEM. ANTHEM is referred to, depending on what segment you're looking at, as either a community gateway or social networking gateway. But, with Intercasting and our ANTHEM version of MySpace, it's a client integrated into the device. Intercasting is backed by $17.5M