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How long can Zuckerberg afford to bankroll the AR/VR market?

TechCrunch LA

Today, Apple News offers local news coverage in 11 markets, including San Francisco, the Bay Area, New York, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, Miami, Charlotte, San Antonio and Washington, D.C.,” ” my colleague Aisha notes. Crypto startups are making it easier to build crypto clubs. added things.

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Interview with Howard Lindzon, StockTwits

socalTECH

Howard is based in San Diego, and spoke to us about StockTwits. First of all, what's the idea behind StockTwits, for people who haven't used the service? Howard Lindzon: StockTwits is a verticalized community for people to share stock ideas and market ideas, 24/7. It's fun, I guess. Only a dummy would do it again.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. Tell us about that.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

Both Sides of the Table

It’s a hard topic to write about because it’s almost an accepted norm that total transparency is good. They can’t wait to hear your brilliant idea. You left our team to work on THAT idea? They told you, “Yeah, man, I’ll gladly write the first $250,000. CEO transparency. Of course not.

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Nervana’s $400M+ Buyout Reflects Key Tech Trend in Machine Learning

Xconomy

On the day after Intel announced its acquisition of San Diego machine learning startup Nervana Systems, investor Steve Jurvetson told me he was feeling a sense of satisfaction about a call he made three years ago, and how it has been playing out.

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Story of a Startup Weekend Veteran | The Good, The Bad, and the UGLY!

Tech Zulu Event

I pitched an idea that was voted in the top 12 but couldn’t form a complete team. The following week, I joined AT&T Hackathon at iO/LA in Hollywood and again pitched the idea. So, I teamed up with a group of developers that showed interest in working on my idea after the weekend.

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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

socalTECH

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. Noah Auerhahn: We just had too much free time at USC. So, we decided to go out and do it.

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