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JANUARY 26, 2010

Russell Stern: Most semiconductor companies have to have to do board designs anyway, for reference designs, and to further qualify them, certify them, and get them through agency approvals. What we're doing, is seeing a bit of our shift in terms of a brand equity that is developing on Wall Street. Russell Stern: Yes.

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MARCH 19, 2014

So, it was a surprise when a number of smart, insider angels -- including Roy Rubin (founder of Magento, which he sold to eBay), and Dan Rose (VP of Partnerships at Facebook)--put their money behind TaxJar (www.taxjar.com), a San Diego startup developing sales tax compliance software. What is TaxJar?

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

It's not something that you could put a million dollar infusion or major investment into and be able to skyrocket your business quickly. We really want to take a personal approach. Finally, what's been your biggest lesson as an entrepreneur? Jon Grishpul: That's good question.

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JULY 31, 2013

In the case of the utilities, we have developed an entire application set that allows back end integration into a variety of their systems, and gives them a view of their distribution network and many aspects of monitoring of that utility, integrated with many back end systems for a variety of purposes.

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JUNE 20, 2012

We're not investing in ideas and trying to turn them into companies. We're investing in incredible teams that have built minimum viable product and need our help with game changing, bizdev deals, fundraising connections, or mentorships. Sam Teller: I'd like to say they should be more than a PowerPoint, and less than a Series A.

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Class Mentor Startup Santa Monica 261

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

That part of the market is primarily driven by companies in what is referred to as lead generation. After the acquisition, we have been investing dramatically in that team. Thta''s something we''ve done a great job at with Vantage Media, which has been facilitating the development of people and the company where people want to live.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

One day, I was talking with a friend who was trying to develop and app for a school event, and had created his own app creation company. That''s how we ended up developing this technology, to take that initial step out of the process. Michael Chasin: I did my JD/MBA at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles.

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JULY 15, 2015

We came from the financial industry space, and have been developing large ERP systems for large law firms around the globe. Dave Terry: We originally were self funded until 2012, when we took a very low investment. All of those are equally important to our large customers, to keep them satisfied and reference-able.

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Software Report Startup IBM 100

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JUNE 23, 2009

Semiconductor startups seem to be quite rare in today's environment, with few companies being funded or launched, due both to the difficulty of bringing products to market, lack of investment capital, as well as lots of established, large companies in the industry. Chip development costs have definitely not gone down.

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OCTOBER 19, 2018

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based Catalog (www.catalog.cc), a startup developing artificial intelligence software to help independent visual artists scale their content production efforts, announced it raised $1.5M The big thing with our raise is we've been investing pretty heavily on predictive content. in a seed funding round.

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AUGUST 18, 2009

In the recent surge in interest in the clean technology and energy investment area, we're constantly surprised by the number of startups in the area focused on some aspect of the industry. We refer to them as plastic solar panels. The original technology was developed at UCLA by Professor Yang Yang.

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