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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.

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Sweep Eyes Nationalwide Electric Scooter Maintenance, Logistics

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Sweep is in a very competitive market--there's already cutthroat competition among independent contractors who go "Bird hunting", being paid to charge scooters and return them to designated spot in the morning. Sweep says it already has operations in Long Beach, Denver, Detroit, Washinton, D.C.,

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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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XPRIZE Whittles IBM Watson AI Teams To 59

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According to XPRIZE, it now has 59 teams across 14 countries competing for the $5M prize, with the top ten teams being named this week at the annual conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) in Long Beach.

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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. It''s also a dog-eat-dog world over there with the competition. People don''t know that in China, you have to do your accounting every month. Getting the talent is an issue.

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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. I also find that Southern California is an amazing place for talent. We've got three of the team also based here in Southern California, and it's proven to be am amazing hub.

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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. They really didn''t want to have to be competitive and share their exchange rates with those companies. But, how can the company offer up free conference calling services, and what''s the story behind the service?