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Crowdsourcing Hope With Online Donation Platform GoFundMe

YoungUpstarts

San-Diego, California-based GoFundMe essentially is a crowdfunding platform that lets someone collect donations for a personal cause or a life event. The company has seen 20% average monthly growth in the last year, is on track to handle $3 million in donations this August alone, and projects a total of nearly $40 million in 2012.

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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

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Thursday, August 9th, 2012. She attended the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, CA, majoring in Writing and Art, and moved to New York City shortly after graduation to work in the Media industry. Disrupt SF 2012. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012. San Francisco, California. © 2012 AOL Inc.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

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Friday, August 31st, 2012. Yokum Taku, Corporate and Securities Partner at the Palo Alto, California Office of Wilson Sonsini agrees, “I can’t think of a good reason not to shift early stage seed financings toward convertible equity away from convertible debt.”. Disrupt SF 2012. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012. Disrupt SF.

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Real Estate Developer Danny Haber Of oWOW Reinvigorates Bay Area

YoungUpstarts

California retains its rank as one of the most desirable states to live in, despite untenable property prices, high taxes, and a cornucopia of social issues. California homeowners are selling up and moving East, to neighboring states. California’s loss is Nevada and Arizona’s gain. In San Francisco, that figure is $1.4

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Free Startup Docs: How Much Equity Should Advisors Get?

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Disrupt SF 2012. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012. San Francisco, California. RelayStrategy Developers Smartsourcing Global Services Epsilon Concepts - LA Web Design Company Developers Arul & Associates LLC Accounting The Resumator HR admin. © 2012 AOL Inc. We respect your anonymity feel free to directly email us.

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The Importance of Women in Tech

Austin Startup

Estimates show that only about 14% of engineers in 2012 were women (Crawford) and that number hasn’t gone up far in recent years. ASME , Sept 2012, [link]. In a field that strives itself on innovation and the progression of mankind, it severely lacks something that is arguably essential for progress in the workplace. Fowler, Susan.

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The Texas Startup Manifesto

Austin Startup

One state — one Accelerator When Capital Factory opened our space in Austin in 2012, we were able to create a true center of gravity and then use that to connect together entrepreneurs, investors, customers, talent and press in meaningful ways. Texas exports more than California and New York combined.

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