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22 Los Angeles Startups You Need to Watch Out For

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Direct Relief is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that provides medical assistance to people around the world who have been affected by poverty, natural disasters, and civil unrest. Factual is a location platform that enables personalized and contextually relevant mobile experiences by enriching mobile location signals.

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

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This has obviously occurred in battles with tech platforms like Yelp vs. Google or Zynga vs. Facebook). When we look at investing in companies we often look at their communities and the social engagement as an indicator of whether there is organic demand for the product (vs. from Charter’s subscribers. Get Physical!

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Can You Build Your Business on Somebody Else’s Platform?

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I read the declarations by industry analysts on Twitter that this was “proof that you can’t build a business on somebody else’s platform” and perhaps DataSift should have known better. Simply put: We never intended to build a business on one company’s platform and despite market perceptions – we never did

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Fans.lu Ties With Game Development Organization

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is the brainchild of David Padula, Derek Padula, and Dave Delaney, who have created a platform to help developers monetize their games through merchandise sales. According to the two, current and future members of the IGDA will receive a discount on the initial store setup fee for Fans.lu.

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Introducing Trust, and the Importance of Product-Founder Fit

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And some of this can be attributed to the increased pressure on the available platforms not only to facilitate acquisition at scale but to do so in an increasingly “walled garden,” privacy-restricted world. eCommerce for example grew 39% just last year - so there’s simply more demand. That’s where Trust comes in?—?it

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

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In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros.

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Aclima sucks in $24M to scale its air quality mapping platform

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Aclima , a San Francisco-based company which builds Internet-connected air quality sensors and runs a software platform to analyze the extracted intel, has closed a $24 million Series A to grow the business including by expanding its headcount and securing more fleet partnerships to build out the reach and depth of its pollution maps.