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WittleBee Raises $2.5M For Children's Clothing Subscriptions

socalTECH

in a seed funding round. As part of the funding, Jim Andelman at Rincon joins the company's board. the business incubator/studio headed by former MySpace CEO Michael Jones. Pervical--who was previously at MySpace--is also known for founding LA technology blog Lalawag. READ MORE>>.

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Should Millennial Entrepreneurs Skip College?

InfoChachkie

Young entrepreneurs can call upon their alumni networks for advice, recruitment of key employees and even funding. Resources – Many campuses offer entrepreneurial students a variety of free resources, such as: incubators, accelerators, mentor programs, venture competitions (with meaningful prize money) and even seed funding.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. Next 10 Ventures , an LA-based $50 million venture capital fund founded by Benjamin Grubbs, YouTube’s former global director of top creator partnerships and Paul Condolora, the former co-head of the Harry Potter franchise at Warner Bros.,

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Biotech Roundup: Deals Gone Wrong, Ethical Red Flags & Bay Goodbyes

Xconomy

—The nonprofit Boston-based T1D Exchange and med tech startup incubator M2D2 have launched what’s being called the “ Diabetes Innovation Challenge ,” a competition to help find and fund new ideas—devices, drugs, and diagnostics—for diabetes research. .

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6 Keys To Selecting The Right Business Future For You

Startup Professionals Musings

Sources should include local startup incubators, blog owners, and government support organizations, such as SCORE. If you will need to supplement your own funds and assets for your business, don’t wait for a crisis to enlist family, friends, angel investors, or start a crowdfunding campaign.

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When VCs Play Defense

Both Sides of the Table

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Any longtime readers of this blog will know that I often try to simplify complex ideas into a simple parable that is easier to remember to set the tone of one’s behaviors.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Incubation 3. Venture Capital Funding 7. ► October (1) New Video! StrongMail Systems, Inc.

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