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StartEngine Debuts Eight New Startups At Demo Day

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The accelerator is among a number that have emerged in Los Angeles in the past year or so; StartEngine specifically has been focusing on startups targeting consumers, small to medium sized businesses, and web infrastructure. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Idris Manley, NativeTung

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One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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StartupDemo Is Shaping Up Nicely

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Last Friday was the final deadline for all StartupDemo applications to be submitted and we are hard at work selecting the best Startups to Demo during the event. We give a huge Thank You to the following sponsors: Demand Media is a leading online media company that informs, entertains and connects millions of people every day.

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Investors, MVPs and Evidence of Traction

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Investors Really Want Evidence of Traction So you built your MVP; you bring it to the investor; you demo it; and I will guarantee they will ask you: "So how many users do you have? Investors demand more than that. I would guess that this represents less than 5% of startups. How much is it costing you to get users?

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

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And Ron Conway has proclaimed that he wants to do up to 40-50 rapid-fire deals in the next 18 months in what is becoming known as the “real time web” (e.g. There is a lot of pent-up demand. million even before the demo day to help you integrate your social network with dating ambitions. – IPO-able in any normal market.

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Final Twiistup Agenda and Last Chance to Nab Tickets

Tech Zulu Event

6:00 – 6:30 PM: Leila Janah, founder and CEO of Samasource.org – Using the Web to Change the World. 6:30-9:00 PM: New Company “Wildcard” Demos on stage. 9:10- 9:40: Richard Rosenblatt CEO of Demand Media with Om Malik – The Evolution and ROI of Content. Wednesday January 27th Korn Hall UCLA. 8:00-9:00 AM: Continental Breakfast.

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AOL Owned CrunchBase Pulls Plug on People+ Startup

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Check out a sample demo of their Google Glass product, due to arrive in 2014 (well, it was due to arrive then). People+ , developed by 3-person startup (Pro Populi, Inc.) pulls assumably free and public data from the CrunchBase database to provide a mobile accessible directory of contacts and company info.