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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

socalTECH

Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. Stacy Stubblefield: We actually started out of an incubator, based out of Beverly Hills. How did the company start?

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Why District2 Is Creating An Online Marketplace For The Fashion Industry

socalTECH

Based on ratings, reviews, and price, designers are able to hire a factory or contractor from our platform. Our uusers can use ratings and reviews, to know if they are working with high quality manufacturers. I liked robots, calculus, and computers, and I even learned how to code at age 9. Right now, it takes too much time.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

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Interview with Dave Fink and Jonathan Neddenriep, Postie

socalTECH

To make it easier to explain, we come from a part of the world where there's been email, display, retargeting, programmatic, and social advertising, which allows us to heavily leverage data, testing, and optimize real time results, so marketers can make good, informed decisions. So, where's the company now? We raised $3.5M

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). Sam did all this analysis before even deciding to build V1 of his software and before we put serious money behind him launching.

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Startup Weekend LA | Recap February 2012

Tech Zulu Event

It’s also a very exciting time here in LA Tech with over 6 accelerators and incubators springing up over the past year. Teams reconvened Saturday morning at 9:00 AM and continued to code and build their startup throughout the day. By 10:00 PM, teams were working away into the night. making this their first SWLA.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. He’s been steadily emailing me for the past 18 months with ideas for local entrepreneurs I “have to meet&# and has been egging me on to spend more time in Seattle.