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How More Women Are Becoming Angel Investors, with Eva Yazhari

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To learn more about how women are looking to change the investment climate--and get involved in investing themselves--we caught up with one of the Pipeline Fellowship''s local mentors, the CEO of Beyond Capital Fund (www.beyondcapitalfund.org), Eva Helene Yazhari , who is here in Los Angeles. What is the Pipeline Fellowship?

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How Amavitae Wants To Help Youth Find A Career They'll Love

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To help fix that, the startup has created a mobile app to guide people through their strengths, interests, key skills, and more to guide them along the way to a career they'll love. There's a big disconnect between their education and employment. What is your app all about? The same thing goes for job listings.

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TechZulu Presents 2012 Startup Forecast | Featuring Science, Tech Coast Angels, Amplify, StartEngine, upStart.LA

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Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2012, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets.

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Menlo Ventures Karl Mehta Launches CodeForIndia.Org To Empower Citizens In India

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Organizations such as TiE Silicon Valley, TiE Mumbai, TiE New Delhi and The Morpheus Fund and several others are among the first to support CFI. With just a mobile phone, the app connects volunteers at primary schools even in remote villages and gives them the ability to collect and report data. Woes at home, timely initiative.

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“Built In L.A.” the New Online Community for Startups

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Keeping track of all the new companies, funding, networking and events going on across town is challenging. Its mission is to connect, educate and promote online innovators that are coming out of L.A.’s received funding, been acquired or exited. “To that has quietly soft launched this January. Built In L.A. s advisory board.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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Seth’s interest in helping others grew out of his lack of having a mentor. Although both parents are educators, his father a professor and his mother the Commissioner of Education in Connecticut, they did not teach him business. He was drawn to Stanford by the people ecosystem- access to professors and mentors.

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Interview with Amir Banifatemi and Kai Tao, K5Launch

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K5Launch (www.k5launch.com) is modeled after the successful Y-Combinator and TechStars acceleration programs, and invests equity, provides mentors, and runs a three month program to get very early stage startups off the ground. Our challenge is to help start, fund, improve, and grow 1000 companies in five years.