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MIT Study: Age Of Founders In Fastest Growing New Ventures Is 45

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In a study which belies the opt-cited preference for "young" entrepreneurs in the startup and venture capital industry, a new study from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology find that the mean age of the founders of the 1,000 fastest growing new ventures in the U.S. is actually 45.0.

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Onestop Internet: Amazon Serious Threat To Apparel Brands

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Los Angeles-based e-commerce service provider Onestop Internet --which is backed by Bessemer Ventures and Fung Capital USA--said it has run a new consumer survey, which shows that Amazon is a "serious threat" to its customers, apparel brands. Onestop called Amazon "a very real threat" to online brands' sales.

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Reflections on 2016: Rob Freelen, Silicon Valley Bank

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Silicon Valley Bank is big supporter and has been a sponsor of socaltech for many, many years. I studied East Asian religions in college and was intrigued to hear that a Buddhist monk was delivering meditation and mindfulness via a mobile app. Here, we have the thoughts of Rob Freelen of Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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By the Numbers: The Returns from Southern California IT IPO's 1995-2009

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On March 10, socaltech.com profiled a study of the financial outcomes of 700+ southern California IT startups from 1995-2009 completed by Jon Funk of OceanRoad Partners and others. We have applied this methodology to the 67 IPO's completed from 1995-2009 by southern California venture capital-backed and self-financed IT companies.

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Cytori Therapeutics Gets $10M In PIPE

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The firm said the new funding will be used for sales and marketing activities, ongoing clinical studies, research and development, as well as for general working capital. Tags: science regenerative medicine vneutre life cytori therapeutics capital. Source of the funding was not disclosed.

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Interview with Skyler Lucci, HeyTutor

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The company recently raised a round of funding from Santa Barbara-based ScOps Venture Capital. Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, and others have had to raise tons of capital and have super-solid foundations to go with the hyper-local play. How did you connect with Kevin and ScOps Venture Capital, and why did you decide to raise a round?

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Interview with Robin Richards, CareerArc

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There are tons of studies that we've done that show when a brand is not good, that employment brand, it impacts your entire brand and the people you can get to come work for your company, and the people you can get to stay. That provides a lot of efficiency in how we deploy capital, and simply just makes it work better.

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