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Armorway Picks Up $2.5M For AI Platform

SoCal Tech Calendar

in a seed funding round. The funding came from Aristos Ventures, private angel investors and investment from serial entrepreneurs, founders and executives from several high tech companies, according to the company.

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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Michael Kleist: Tradesparq is a B2B trade platform. Michael Kleist: We''re seed funded, and have already raised money from twelve investors. What is Tradesparq? The crux of it is we help buyers user their network to verify suppliers, primarily in Asia and China, where we started. Tell us about your backers?

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

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Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

socalTECH

Brian Garrett: It's analytics, it's delivery platforms, it's optimization of technology facilitating compression to delivery of video. We started seeing deals like Intermix, LowerMyBills, Rent.com, Shopzilla--all of these successes started in SoCal--who had not raised money from local investors. How tough was it to start up a new fund?

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

For a high-volume seed fund that adds many portfolio companies every year (such as our friends at 500 Startups who invest in over 100 distinct companies annually), the cost of a bad affirmative decision (a false positive) is quite low, since it accounts for a relatively small portion of their total fund.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

Will Price , October 11, 2010 Georgians Should Vote No - Force of Good: a blog by Lance Weatherby , October 28, 2010 Free Software for Managing a Lean Startup - Platforms and Networks , January 17, 2010 Purpose Driven Life - Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur , July 26, 2010 Two Decade-Defining Acquisitions? First Principles.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

- A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , July 25, 2010 AVC regular Charlie Crystle asked me this question yesterday in the comments : Fred, it might be helpful to some of your readers to explain when a startup should seek angel vs seed/early stage VC. They ignore/disrespect the platform. What do you think?

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