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Profitability Helps San Diego Lender Step Out from Industry Cloud

Xconomy

In contrast to some alternative lenders, the San Diego firm said it is growing fast and is consistently profitable. There is more integrity to the process,” Gilbert said, because National Funding uses traditional loan analysts as well as software to analyze and process its loan applications.

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Interview with Bong Koh, LifeCrowd

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The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area. But, I found out in reality, it's really tough to find classes or lessons, for a variety of issues. You, as an entrepreneur, are expected to go though due diligence.

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

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The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. I had worked as a tutor for Princeton Review, and Jake for Kaplan. We thought, we could put out a better product than Kaplan or Princeton Review, which would be more compelling, and also would tie in a strong social mission.

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On Ramp Wireless: Connecting The Smart Grid

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One of the companies that has recently is On Ramp Wireless (www.onrampwireless.com), a San Diego company in the M2M market headed by Kevin Hell. We also operate the network software than runs and manages the entire network layer, from access point to end point. We have Renaissance making our chips.

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Interview with Marc Friedmann, SciVee

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One is software, which is very much like software-as-a-service, where we deliver that software to publications and conferences, to enable rich media on their sites. The software is very solid, there have been no issues or downtime, and we're still actually operating out of the UCSD campus, at the San Diego Supercomputing Center.

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Fintech Lender Uses Profitability to Step Out from Industry Cloud

Xconomy

In contrast to some alternative lenders, the San Diego firm said it is growing fast and is consistently profitable. There is more integrity to the process,” Gilbert said, because National Funding uses traditional loan analysts as well as software to analyze and process its loan applications.

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Biotech Roundup: Moonshots, Pink Slips, Gilead, Brexit & More

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To boost the initiative, which aims to speed the pace of cancer research, FDA said it would consolidate its cancer review divisions under the Oncology Center of Excellence. Niraparib is a PARP inhibitor, a drug class that has rebounded after some setbacks. PureTech also bucked the Brexit fallout this week. .