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Niantic transcends Discord to build Campfire, an AR social app, and unveils Lightship VPS

TechCrunch LA

This summer, parent company Niantic is unveiling Campfire, a social app designed to help mobile augmented reality (AR) gamers connect. Following in Snapchat’s footsteps as a map-based social platform, the app also includes the ability to connect with people, find nearby events, join communities and message people.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5 What Has Given Birth to This New Movement in LA? .

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

TechCrunch LA

Nuggetverse : a web comics media startup. Wabisabi Design : an augmented reality game studio focused on bit-sized titles. . Earlier Yellow bets skewed more toward content investments as Snapchat was scaling Discover. Mogul Millennial : a media startup sharing professional resources for Black entrepreneurs. ”

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Web Services, led by Amazon’s AWS, which reduced the costs a further 90%. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built. I don’t need to tell you what else is LA … SnapChat, Whisper, Tinder. All great communication companies.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

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With 10,000 square feet designed to inspire innovation, Amplify LA is the ultimate start-up accelerator and entrepreneurial campus — all to bring together the brightest, most enthusiastic technology minds into an environment that provides solutions, support, and collaboration. Social Media: Snapchat. Incubator: Amplify LA.

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Interview with Lidia Yan, NEXT Trucking

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Even though my family was reasonably more advanced, they were using a system which was still running on DOS, in black and blue, and was not even web-based. It's designed to meet their needs, so it quickly got traction, without a lot of marketing dollars. That's when we came up with NEXT Trucking. We're hiring.

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7 Steps To A Memorable New Venture Marketing Rollout

Startup Professionals Musings

Should you be buying key words from search engines, building fabulous web content, blasting out e-mail campaigns, or putting all your efforts into viral videos or social media? For young consumers today, it may be Instagram or Snapchat, while B2B offerings should take a hard look at LinkedIn and other business forums.