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Pledgeling's James Citron: Every Business Should Be A Social Enterprise

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For this morning's interview, with caught up with serial entrepreneur James Citron , the founder of Pledgeling (www.pledgeling.com), a startup which enables any business to help connect their business with social causes. Citron previously founded and sold Mogreet, a developer of mobile marketing software, among other ventures.

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How Nix Hydra's Egg Baby Cracked The Code For Female Gamers

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However, Egg Baby--the title from newly funded Nix Hydra (www.nixhydra.com)--seems to have cracked the code for how to get new, young, female consumers to become game players. Most of the reviews rant about how cute the game is, so they probably like that too. Lina Chen: Number one, we learned to code and made a prototype ourselves.

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How Dealstruck Is Using Crowdfunding To Power Loans For Small Businesses

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The San Diego firm is headed by Ethan Senturia , who sat down with us to tell us how Dealstruck is trying to help build small businesses and jobs--and also tells us a bit about what it''s like to come from a family full of very successful, and high profile entrepreneurs, and how that has influenced his experience as an entrepreneur himself.

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Reflections on 2019: Kelly Perdew, Moonshots Capital

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Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. Due to this, seed rounds have become more competitive, with more expensive valuations and more oversubscribed rounds.

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Interview with Mike Whitmire, CEO and Co-founder, FloQast

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For today's interview, we sat down and talked with Mike Whitmire , the CEO and Co-founder of Los Angeles-based FloQast (www.floqast.com), a developer of financial close management software for enterprise accounting. Mike tells us about the company, who uses its software, as well as how he was initially turned away from the Amplify.LA

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Interview with Eric M. Jackson, CapLinked

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Jackson, CEO and co-founder of CapLinked (www.caplinked.com), which is developing tools to help entrepreneurs and investors connect. Eric is an experienced entrepreneur, and was a very, very early employee at PayPal, where he was recruited by Peter Thiel. Jackson: It's actually two audiences, both the entrepreneur and investor.

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Interview with Dat Do, Derivatas

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Dat Do: We produce valuation software that solves a lot of complex valuation issues for privately held companies, backed by venture capital and private equity. I came up with the idea, mentioning it to the PwC partners a few years ago. Who would be purchasing the software? What does your company do? How to price it.