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Transaction Wireless Scores $2.25M

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San Diego-based Transaction Wireless announced this morning that it has raised $2.25M in a Series A funding. According to the firm, it is developing mobile infrastructure for relationship marketing, including mobile POS and mobile gift cards. The funding came from Mission Ventures and Okapi Ventures.

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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Confident Technologies / Curtis Staker / San Diego - Staker is the former President of Websense, and has pulled together an experienced team with a depth of experience from the firm.

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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Michael Kleist: My business partner and I were both originally from San Diego. We''ll mostly be doing enterprise sales here, but also looking at the technology and design front, hiring better talent, taking design to a new level than maybe what we are in China. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here.

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With $30M Infusion, Certona Aims for Bigger Share of Digital Retail

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After raising $30 million, San Diego-based Certona said it is moving to accelerate its product development, expand its sales and marketing team, and improve its client services as an e-commerce technology vendor. Certona uses the data to offer shoppers personalized options based on “real-time profiling.”.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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Dave’s a great guy with a good sense of humor and a broad knowledge of the market, which is why I was excited that he could be on the show. Investors: Matrix (Dana Stadler, who was the CTO of PayPal). It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. 15mm in Series A. Read more: TechCrunch.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. Page 1: Market Size. $3 I had planned a balance of large companies and SMB/divisional sales but have changed my thinking.

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Interview with Jason Howe, CEO of Awarepoint

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San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. I think we've got a great team, with the right product, at the right time in the market. Jason Howe: Right now, an IPO is an impossibility at this point in the market.

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