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Mingly Launches Mingly Web and MyPeople | Manage Your TwitFaceMailBookLink

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Last fall, Mingly released their first product last fall to help users manage their endless webs of connections. After an initial round of seed funding of $500k led by Pasadena’s Idealab, Mingly saw great success as they built up their Gmail user base. Finally, some solid relief.

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Interview with Rob Kramer, HipSwap

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We have a very visual marketplace, that for the mobile and web, lets people show their closets, garages, homes, and stores. We do the same thing on the web, making selling really easy. There's a screen that we throw a product at you, an image of that product, which lets you "hip it" -- similar to a favorite or like -- or "skip it".

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

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For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Mobile Web America, Inc. Everything happens in the browser (no software to download) and the finished product looks amazing on large screens! It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Presenting Companies at CalTech

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For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers. New models for improving the search experience are at the core of several companies currently growing inside of Idealab.

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Making The Pasadena Angels Relevant To Today's Startups, With Terry Kay

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To do that, we''ve help organize our members into subject matter areas, whether they know IT, or web stuff, or engineering, or manufacturing. We now have two person teams reaching out to applicant companies, after we do an early screening, weeding out those companies with no change of getting funding from our group.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

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For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

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Friday evening, August 19th, rolled around and Startup Weekend LA was underway with attendees showing up at Coloft in Santa Monica around 6:00 pm and the classic Idealab keg there to quench everyone’s thirst. Also of note was Ryan Orrico’s launch of HandJob, a new form of job applicant screening and referral tracking.