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Aspiration Gets $47M For Online Banking Efforts

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Los Angeles-based Aspiration , and online banking startup which calls itself "the financial firm with a conscience", said on Tuesday that it has raised $47M in a Series B funding round.

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TechStar Co-Founder @BFeld: Are We Experiencing A Startup Accelerator Bubble?

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In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators. By mid-2011 he noted, “As seed accelerators have exploded in number world-wide, it’s become nearly impossible to keep this (Google Doc) working.” This growth led Jed Christiansen to base his master thesis on the impact and efficacy of the phenomenon.

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Stained Glass Labs Patners With Exitround, Unveils App Directory for Google Glass

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Apart from the app directory, SGL has also created a Press Release publishing tool for developers to upload their docs during the submission process easily, making it even better for SGL to send it to its network of industry connection.

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Entrepreneurs Needed to Keep Web 3.0 From Fading

Startup Professionals Musings

Examples include Google Docs, Salesforce.com, Slideshare.net, and Box.net. Twelve-year-olds are running million-dollar-social networks, your grandma is tweeting, and your long-lost cousin runs a popular tribe on Second Life. U sers can now interact in real time on documents, collaboration, including making changes.

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Five Clues To Web 3.0 Opportunities Here Now

Startup Professionals Musings

Examples include Google Docs, Salesforce.com, Slideshare.net, and Box.net. Twelve-year-olds are running million-dollar-social networks, your grandma is tweeting, and your long-lost cousin runs a popular tribe on Second Life. U sers can now interact in real time on documents, collaboration, including making changes.

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To the Moon!

Eric Greenspan

Our Tech News radio show on both CBS and ABC radio networks are going great. That’s all the doc could tell us. It’s a fun company, but customer acquisition is the biggest challenge we face. We have 34,000 customers already, but we need more more more. Check out www.cbstechnews.com or www.abctechnews.com.

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Mix and Mingle | LA Startups Shows Some Bite

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Besides using excel sheets and word docs to organize, there was no other easy way. ” After almost one year, this is what Tint decided to do and relaunched with a social activity website that allows you to embed content from your social networks onto your website in one page. This was Nick Lumpp’s problem.

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