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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

TechCrunch LA

Mogul Millennial : a media startup sharing professional resources for Black entrepreneurs. Earlier Yellow bets skewed more toward content investments as Snapchat was scaling Discover. Charli Cohen : a “next-gen” streetwear fashion brand. Hardworkers : a professional network for blue-collar workers.

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Digest 5/9-15: Hyperloop One’s Big Week; uBeam Accusations; Snapchat Moves into Santa Monica

LATechDigest

SNAPCHAT Expands into New Offices at Santa Monica Airport ( link ). COMPARABLY Adds Equity Calculator ( link ). Rhubarb Hosted Entrepreneur Journeys. Here’s what’s new in LA’s tech space: Behind the Scenes at SMASHD LABS , Open for Accelerator Submissions ( link ). TRADESY Raises $30M Series C ( link ).

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How Well Versed Are You In Startup Investor Jargon?

Startup Professionals Musings

Whether you are talking to peers, competitors or investors, you as an active entrepreneur will be judged on your familiarity with today’s startup and funding jargon. In that context, I offer you my latest collection of popular investor-to-entrepreneur terms and concepts. Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat.

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Join The Unicorn Club Of Billion-Dollar Companies

Startup Professionals Musings

Some of the most well-known include Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat, Xiaomi, and Pinterest. What every entrepreneur is asking me these days, is “How do I get to be a unicorn?” Yet there are a common set of driving factors that every entrepreneur should know, including the following: Extraordinary marketplace traction.

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Neel Grover: How Indi Is Helping People Earn Money For Their Knowledge

socalTECH

Our interview today is with serial entrepreneur Neel Grover , the CEO and founder of Indi (indi.com). We have a couple of thousand retailers and a product catalog of 80 million products, and every day, people are posting their photos and videos to Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, Snapchat, and Twitter. Indi stands for individual.

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REX: Skipping The MLS When You Sell Your Home, with Jack Ryan

socalTECH

Do they have positive equity in their home? We've also developed technology to target them, once we've found them, across Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, or Waze, whatever they are using most frequently. They have to go out and find buyers. That's the same thing with Zillow or Trulia. How long have they livedin their home?

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

Both Sides of the Table

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. ” “This will be great for VCs and bad for entrepreneurs.” What is the True Sentiment of VCs? ” “Sure, prices are dropping.

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