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The Skills Raises $5 Million for Online Sports Courses

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Manhattan Beach startup Skills Annex Inc. has raised $5 million in seed funding for a newly launched online sports education platform.

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Sweety High Launches Site for Tween Girls

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Sweety High , a new startup based in Manhattan Beach, is hoping to reach tween girls with its new social gaming and entertainment site, saying this week that it has launched out of private beta. The site says it is hoping to create a social game platform to allow girls between 8 and 16 to "express themselves fearlessly".

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Morphlabs Takes On Solid State Storage

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Manhattan Beach-based MorphLabs is rolling out a new piece of cloud software today, focused on solid state drive (SSD) storage. Damarillo is a repeat entrepreneur, who has a number of successes in the open source software market; he's probably best known for starting and building GlueCode software, and selling it to IBM.

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Pod Network Picks Up $5M For Social Media App

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Manhattan Beach-based Pod Network , which says it is developing a mobile, social media network which connects users based on their physical location, plus professional and personal interests, has raised $5M in a seed funding. The company said the round was led by PACA Ventures and Anthony Misitano, founder of Post Acute Medical.

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Interview with J.R. Johnson, Lunch.com

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We spoke with Johnson about his new startup, as well as had him fill us in on the story behind VirtualTourist, how he bootstrapped that firm, and his exit. Johnson: Back in 1999, we started a company called VirtualTourist.com. It was a local, SoCal company right here in Manhattan Beach. Lunch.com is based in Los Angeles.

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Glad I Know Searches People Search Service

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Manhattan Beach-based Glad I Know said this morning that it has launched a new, person search platform, which provides consumers with access to what it says is a comprehensive database of information available on any person in the U.S. The company offers up its information for $9.99 READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Brett Crosby and Brew Johnson, PeerStreet

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Earlier this week, Manhattan Beach-based PeerStreet (www.peerstreet.com) announced the launch of its online lending marketplace for real estate, plus a $6.1M Brett and I both grew up in Southern California. I grew up in Thousand Oaks, went to USC, and we met each other way back in the 90's. in a funding round.