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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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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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Now, we''re looking at Southern California because there''s lots of talent in the area of design, and we also want to start targeting enterprises here who want to start sourcing products in Asia. And, because there are many companies in Long Beach and sourcing operations here, it really made sense to open up operations in Southern California.

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Interview with Clint Brauer, Greenfield Robotics

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I went to college at K-State, and then I started with a little Internet development company, W3 Design, which became USWeb Los Angeles. I ended up doing a lot of different things, and was an executive at Sony, and had lots of software and marketing roles over time. That was where this company came from. We're on year two now.

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

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com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next. Even when I had babies, I started a company making baby clothing with designers for a few years. What is Fuel50?

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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. Toll free numbers don''t make any sense anymore, particularly when fifty to sixty percent of people are on cell phones with unlimited long distance, and it really makes no difference to them or not if it''s toll free or not. How is that?

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The Snap IPO Happened. What Next LA?

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It’s hard to remember that in 2012 it was still hard for LA VCs to persuade investors into funds that LA was a viable market for great venture capital funds or convince many VCs that LA was a market worth investing dollars into startups. 43% of all goods arriving into American ports come through LA and Long Beach ports in Los Angeles.