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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

Both Sides of the Table

In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros.

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Launching from beta, ProGuides is making money ensuring that gamers never play alone

TechCrunch LA

” That’s right, ProGuides is pitching a marketplace for experienced gamers so that its customers aren’t randomly matched with some noob if they can’t game with their usual partners. “Our tagline is ‘Play with pros’ now,” says Wang.

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How To Tune Business Strategy For Long-Term Success

Startup Professionals Musings

A recent high-profile one, Theranos , the blood-testing company, had no trouble getting customers, but promised more than their technology could deliver, Another, Shyp , an early on-demand delivery platform, blamed their demise on premature scaling. Make sustainability a key design objective for every step.

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Meet the 2017 Startups from the Disney Accelerator

Tech.Co

The company has a majority stake in Team Liquid, a top esports team in the US and Europe with 60 pro players, coaches, and analysts competing in nine games as well as a minority stake in Super League Gaming. Developers also choose Epic’s Unreal Engine for cinematic production, visualization, design and simulation.

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Fuel50: Helping Employees Figure Out Their Career Path, With Anne Fulton

socalTECH

com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next. You can find a mentor, a coach, a project, or experience, to help you prepare for the role you are looking for.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

Tech Zulu Event

LA based CapLinked , a cloud-based business transaction platform yesterday raised $1.6 CapLinked is changing this with our intuitive and easy-to-use platform.”. Sroka earlier worked at Industrial Logic,where he developed programs in test-driven development, refactoring, and object-oriented design for HP, Yahoo!, million Raised.

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DODGERS Announce Newest Accelerator Companies

LATechDigest

The companies include new platforms for creating real-time data, video, and highlights for amateur and professional sports teams, community-based content creation tools for brands and organizations, as well as innovative cleaning technology for high-performance sports apparel and gear. The program launches today in R/GA’s LA office.

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