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Evite Encouraging Charity Donations Through Holiday Events

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Los Angeles-based Evite is launching an effort to help raise money for charities, with a "Make More Merry" campaign powered by Venice, California-based Pledgeling , the company said Monday. According to Evite, the campaign will launch next Tuesday as part of GivingTuesday. READ MORE>>.

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Evite Redesigns Site

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Los Angeles-based Evite , the online invitations business which is a unit of IAC, said today that it has launched an extensive redesign of the firm's website. Evite said it now is seeing 18 million monthly uniques, and sends out over 28,000 invitations an hour. Those competitors have been hoping to take market share from Evite.

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Interview with David Wood, Eventene

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For our interview this morning, we talked with David Wood , the Founder and CEO of Eventene (www.eventene.com), an early stage startup, bootstrapped startup developing event management software. David--a veteran of Microsoft, having been the lead developer of Microsoft Exchange--tells us why he started his company.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

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Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup.

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Interview with Harry Lin, Lottay

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This morning, Los Angeles-based Lottay (www.lottay.com) launched its online gifting site, announced its funding by DFJ Frontier, and also the appointment of former Evite GM Harry Lin as CEO. How did Lottay start, and tell us about your Series A? Elliott came up wit the idea in 2008, seeing the trends I just explained to you.

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Skate Where the Puck is Going

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Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck. Come up with your own novel thoughts.

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Increase Your RSVP Accuracy With tureRSVP

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Have an idea for a startup but afraid you don’t have time to work on it? Not only did they start a company but they have taken it as far as attending and pitching at one of the most prestigious conferences known in the startup world, DEMO.