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No Co-Founder? Y Combinator Offers Matchmaking at Startup School

Xconomy

There were a host of reasons—she wasn’t a software engineer, she had no product development experience, and she wanted to launch a consumer item that was already sold widely by established enterprises.

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3D Robotics Raises $5 Million In Funding | Expanding To New Markets

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3D Robotics has raised over $5 million in round two funding to accelerate its growth and expansion into new markets says Chris Anderson 3DR CEO and former Editor in Chief of Wired Magazine, Entrepreneur and author. Anderson is opportunistic that the funding round and him joining the firm as CEO will propel the firm to new heights.

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Backed by LG, AmazeVR is hoping to resurrect virtual reality’s consumer dreams

TechCrunch LA

LG U+ will host AmazeVR content on its service use the company’s proprietary content generation tools to make VR production easier as it looks to roll out 1500 new pieces of virtual reality “experiences” AmazeVR sells its content as a $7 per-month subscription, with 3 month bundles for $18 and 6 month bundles for $24.

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How Rolebot Wants To Eliminate The Resume, With Shane Bernstein

socalTECH

However, in the technical arena--as a programmer, developer, or software engineer--it's hard to tell from a resume how good you really are. So what's the status of the company, and what kind of funding have you received? We've just started to go out to look for a seed funding round. Are people using the product now?

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With New Program, DARPA To Encourage Safety “Brakes” For Gene Editing

Xconomy

The idea for the funding program, called Safe Genes, is to get out ahead of problems that could bring the field to a screeching halt. He praised DARPA for looking to fund “safety first, rather than jumping to fund unsafe work with only a handful of potential applications.” Some see it as a way to eradicate malaria.)

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Interview with Costin Tuculescu, Freebinar

socalTECH

To address the need for more affordable webinars, services like DimDim (acquired by Salesforce.com earlier this month), and Huntington Beach-based Freebinar (www.freebinar.com) have been offering up free webinar products to users. Costin Tuculescu: I cam out of UC Irvine as a software engineer, studying computer science.

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FindTheBest Gets Backing From Kleiner Perkins

socalTECH

Santa Barbara-based FindTheBest.com , the comparison search engine firm run by Kevin O'Connor, said today that it has received Series A funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers' sFund. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. O'Connor was the co-founder of DoubleClick. READ MORE>>.