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Startups Win $25,000 In CSULB Challenge

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Two startups won a total of $25,000 in prizes last week at the Sunstone Innovations Challenge at CSULB, a startup pitch competition involving student teams from CSU Long Beach. The runner up was UNWIND, which is developing personalized meditation programs, which received $10,000 in seed funding.

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Postmates’ newest feature is like Uber POOL for food delivery

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The feature illustrates how Postmates, one of the earlier entrants to the billion-dollar food delivery wars , is trying to remain competitive by appealing to price-sensitive customers. The feature is now available in Chicago, Las Vegas, Long Beach, Calif., cities in which it currently operates. and Philadelphia.

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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And, because there are many companies in Long Beach and sourcing operations here, it really made sense to open up operations in Southern California. Michael Kleist: We''re seed funded, and have already raised money from twelve investors. It''s also a dog-eat-dog world over there with the competition.

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

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We're working from Manhattan Beach and Long Beach, and we've found that Southern California is really friendly. It was really a meeting of the minds with the fund. Finally, with the new funding, what's next for you? I also find that Southern California is an amazing place for talent.

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How FreeConferenceCall.com Made Audio Conferencing Free

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FreeConferenceCall.com is a Long Beach company which was founded by David Erickson. A couple of years ago, there were some FCC rule changes to the Universal Service Fund, how has that impacted your business? They really didn''t want to have to be competitive and share their exchange rates with those companies.