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Batch 8 500 Startups Demo Day | Our Top Ten

Tech Zulu Event

As our first time covering a 500 Startups demo day , we could only imagine the stratospheric levels of stress our Batch 8 founders must have gone through to get on stage and present their progress from their last four months of startup bootcamp. In true 500 Startups fashion, Demo Day had an almost cathartic feel. ” Demo Day.

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Workpop: Using UX And Design To Power The Next Career Site

socalTECH

Online job and career sites still seem to be in another decade, when it comes to both design--and user friendliness. Can a startup gain a foothold in the competitive market by designing the right UX and user experience to make a job and career site for everyone? Starting on the employer side first, we put a big emphasis on design.

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

TechCrunch LA

This morning, Snap joined a host of startup accelerators shifting its demo day online amid the COVID-19 quarantine. Wabisabi Design : an augmented reality game studio focused on bit-sized titles. “We tuned into a bunch of different digital demo days; one of our advantages was being able to learn from others,” he says.

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LA Dodgers Accelerator Names New Class

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The LA Dodgers Sports Accelerator offers up connections with the leadership of the Dodgers', its leadership, business units, and industry network, in addition to RG/A's strategic marketing, branding, design, and technology services. The demo day for the group is in November. READ MORE>>.

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LA Dodgers Accelerator Opens Apps For New Class

socalTECH

According to the LA Dodgers and R/GA, it will select five to seven startups in this new class, giving them access to both the executive leadership team of the Dodgers and its business units, plus access to marketing, branding, design, and technology services. The first LA Dodgers Accelerator included ten companies.

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Fans.lu Ties With Game Development Organization

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David Padula has served at Activision and Paramount Pictures; Derek Padula has worked as a game designer at Electronic Arts, Activision, and Seven Studios. The company was one of the companies that presented at StartEngine''s demo day back in January. READ MORE>>.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

Marco Zappacosta served up an cogent, business focused and nicely demo’d pitch of their product. Thumbtack is marketplace for local services. Like TechCrunch50 winner RedBeacon they solve the problem of people looking for local services – plumbers, nannies, contractors, etc. Watch this space. As I’m sure Pip.io

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