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16 Great Startup Posts from March

SoCal CTO

9 Reasons Why Many Smart People Go Nowhere - Life Beyond Code , March 29, 2010 You would have met many smart people who live a mediocre life. The Exit Disconnect - Ask the Angels , March 25, 2010 I’ll admit to having a bias towards exits and focus my review of a potential investment on the exit potential. There are MANY of them.

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With New Program, DARPA To Encourage Safety “Brakes” For Gene Editing

Xconomy

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency—a famed military R&D group—wants to finance safety measures for the new gene-editing age. The first round of pitches are due this week. Editas, which could be the first of the group to begin human studies, wants to start a trial for a rare eye disease in 2017.

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The Evolution of the App Stores

Xconomy

Apple announced more progress on their privacy initiatives, while Google remained highly product-focused, announcing numerous apps, new pieces of hardware, and more development tools for VR. Two customer-focused announcements stood out: the reviews API and the customer case studies.

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The Future of Couponing | How Social-Local-Mobile has Changed the Game

Tech Zulu Event

The industry had seen unprecedented growth in the past decade due to a combination of factors, one of which was the United States’ economic recession. Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms. A study conducted by Rice University’s Jesse H.

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7 Strategies For Anticipating Future Customer Trends

Startup Professionals Musings

I was happy to see a real focus on preparing for tomorrow highlighted in a new book, “ Start a Successful Business ,” by Colleen DeBaise, who has made a career of studying and writing about entrepreneur challenges. Regularly follow reviews and influencers in your industry. Use tools and analytics to identify trends and directions.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. actually did the fundamental research in the 90’s at the Medialab.

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Interview Therese Tucker, BlackLine Systems

socalTECH

It's somewhat unusual in this economy to find companies who are seeing strong growth, so we were intrigued recently in running into BlackLine Systems (www.blackline.com), a firm which develops software for helping in the financial reporting process. First, for our readers who aren't familiar with your software, can you explain what it does?

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