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Roofstock Launches Real Estate Marketplace In Los Angeles

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Roofstock , a startup which operates an online marketplace that lets investors purchase homes online as investments, has launched in Los Angeles, the company said on Thursday. The company's marketplace offers inspections, valuation, title reports, and information on tenants and local property managers to its users. READ MORE>>.

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Bing Focuses On Entertainment With New Features

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The search engine said one of the biggest investments is in entertainment, particularly navigating and finding what you are looking for from content on the web. On the movie front, Bing said it will provide movie reviews, playtimes, nearby traffic, and other information about movies.

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All The Questions You Wanted Answered about Bird Scooters and Their Recent $300 Million Funding

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Until recently it was headquartered 2 blocks from our offices in Santa Monica so we literally saw it emerge under our feet and we proudly invested in the last 3 rounds of financing. I’m not providing actual financial information or predicting a number or a date but I will tell you that the revenue growth to date has been astounding.

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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

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A few months ago I wrote a post called “ Invest in Lines, Not Dots.&# It was my investment philosophy that observing teams’ performance over time was far more insightful than reacting to how good of a product demo they do, how good they present Powerpoint slides or how great tech blogs say they are.

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LA Startup Report 2013 | A Rising Forecast

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Be Great Partners , a Los Angeles technology incubator, has recently released a report on the startup community in LA and the information shows a positive growth for startups here in LA. Compared to Silicon Valley, LA only has only about one-tenth of VC investments. With Yahoo!,

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The Case for In-Stream Advertising

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I myself recently covered the topic when I spoke about why GRP Partners invested in Ad.ly. But I also accept and appreciate the ads in Hulu because I know that I’m watching shows for free. I know that advertising is important to inform consumers of offers – the same reason many tech companies use SEM.

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Why Startup Entrepreneurs Need to Communicate More Like George Bush Than Al Gore

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Even the VC who invested in your deal struggles to properly position why you’re going to be huge when they’re calling big tech companies or other VCs on your behalf. ” Many people in Internet TV talk to me about “ Torso TV ” or “ Why Hulu is like OPEC. They want a simple deck that sells.