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DataPop Gets $1.7M

socalTECH

According to Lehmbeck, in an interview with socalTECH, the company's software takes key specifications from products such as televisions and other consumer electronics, and applies them to ads automatically, so that instead of just advertising a big screen television an ad might contain key terms and information about those products.

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Tecca, Backed By Best Buy, Launches Personal Electronics Shopping Service

socalTECH

The firm, which did not disclose financial details of the investment, said the digital media fund established by Best Buy and Fuse Capital are backing its launch of a product information, pricing, and shopping mobile application. Fuse said that Tecca was incubated from within the firm. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

socalTECH

I then became and EIR at UC San Diego, and joined EvoNexus, the not-for-profit incubator run by the Irvine Company. But, there is broad agreement that it would be a wonderful thing to get more entrepreneurs and venture capital into the region. As you know, Silicon Valley has a locker grip on the venture capital community.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

I need to take some VC meetings. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle.

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Interview with Buck Jordan, Miso Robotics

socalTECH

How did you go from running a venture fund to starting Miso? Buck Jordan: The story is, I was at the tail end of my last fund, Canyon Creek Capital, and I wanted to try something different. It's equalized finance, and it's equalized an elite, walled-off section of finance, venture capital. What is Miso Robotics?

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Creating the 21st-Century Fashion Brand, with Brett Markinson, Sole Society

socalTECH

I've been engaged in about thirty startups, anywhere from in incubators, being an angel investor, to leading the charge. Hautelook disintermediated the off-price part of the segment. It's the relationship between price and quality. I've been doing that for 25 years. Your last success was Hautelook, wasn't it? What is value?

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Interview with Greg Brogger, SharesPost

socalTECH

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. Down to capital structure and common stock liquidation preferences.

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