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What You Missed On Your Holiday Vacation, SoCal Technology Edition

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In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). 9 Ways socalTECH Can Help You With Your New Year's Resolutions. LaunchpadLA Opens Up Spring Applications. Broadcom Powering New Mac Wireless. Surf Air Gets First Aircraft. How to find a startup mentor.

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Stacking Up The Online Film Submission Sites

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Summary: Amazon.com's own entry into the online movie contest business, Amazon Studios said it will award $2.7 Summary: Openfilm has its own warchest of film financing dollars as part of its online movie competition site, saying in April that it would invest $1M into independent filmmakers who are selected through the online community.

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What I Learned In 2015: Jeb Spencer, TVC Capital

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Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. TVC Capital has also been a big supporter of socaltech over the years. What was the biggest news for you or your firm this year?

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How Dealstruck Is Using Crowdfunding To Power Loans For Small Businesses

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Instead of equity, the company is aimed at profiting profitable small businesses with business debt funding from investors, to help those businesses grow and get to the next level. Have you run into any regulatory issues providing funding like this? READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Nikhil Jain, Clean Green Guy

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They can place that deal online, putting an executive summary and a video of their elevator pitch into our deal marketplace, which we then show to investors in diesel or algae. Nikhil Jain: The company is completely self funded, by myself. They might need to build a prototype, and are looking for the right kind of investor.

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Streamlining The Sports Recruiting Process with FieldLevel

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We worked night and weekends, fleshed out the concept, and in July and August of 2008 we launched the product, took on some angel funding, and started the process. When they''re in there, they put in a summary of an athlete. What we''re focusing in on, is qualitative analysis. We think it''s really powerful in our platform.

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Interview with Richard Yen, Saban Ventures

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In what looks to be a challenging funding climate for entrepreneurs, we thought it would be interesting to talk to one fund which is still making investments--Saban Ventures (www.saban.com)--a new, digital media focused venture capital fund located in Los Angeles. How big of a fund is this?