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Interview with Dmitri Leonov and Constantine Suychmez, Ulevate

socalTECH

Dmitri Leonov: We built a distribution business for equipment for the spa industry, and have had 10,000 client over that time, but in the last few years, we've really focused on talking to spa customers about their needs in the market. Essentially, the customer wants natural and organic ingredients. Our average retention is 70 percent.

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Interview with Eugene Cho, Echo Laboratories

socalTECH

Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo Laboratories (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. The first thing you are trained on, is to qualify customers and figure out if they need upright or inverted microscopes. The startup is backed by the Tech Coast Angels and Dolby Ventures.

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Interview with Eugene Cho, Echo

socalTECH

Eugene Cho is CEO of San Diego-based Echo (www.discover-echo.com), a startup which is developing a new kind of microscope. The first thing you are trained on, is to qualify customers and figure out if they need upright or inverted microscopes. The startup is backed by the Tech Coast Angels and Dolby Ventures.

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The Yo-Yo Life of a Tech Entrepreneur – A Cautionary Tale

Both Sides of the Table

TechCrunch Europe ran an article in November of last year that European startups need to work as hard as those in Silicon Valley and I echoed the sentiment in my post about the need for entrepreneurs to be maniacal about their businesses if one wants to work in the hyper competitive tech world. Our first big institutional round was $16.5

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From Drones to Sharing Economy, Don’t Disrupt the Disruptors

Xconomy

competitiveness and leadership, as well as safety of the national airspace system, it’s crucial that states and localities recognize and defer to the Federal Aviation Administration’s jurisdiction, its recently released nationwide rules , and other subsequent policies that balance safety and innovation.

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

socalTECH

Some of the biggest school districts, including LA Unified, San Diego, and Oakland all use our software. In terms of the software, our student learning software, we're able to provide a very customized, personalized learning experience for students. Ramit Varma: I've been sort of in and out of the venture space since we started.

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Interview with Jason Howe, CEO of Awarepoint

socalTECH

San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. Who are the typical customers for your products? It's a month-to-month rental, although many of our customers buy the product--but they can do it on an operations budget.

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