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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. It’s not accident we have so many great startups targeting commerce including Tradesy, DailyLook, NastyGal, Honest Co & JustFab just to name a few.

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A Socially-responsible, Triple-bottom line Taco Shop: SMB Tech Talk from Chaia

Hunter Walker

These people are true founders and entrepreneurs just like any venture backed company. We’ve also had some very generous artists contributing to our cache of usable imagery and promotional material – for which we are VERY grateful. HW: How have you financed your business to date? How did it all begin?

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14 predictions for 2014 that media experts find unlikely

The Next Web

Jeremy Goldman is the founder of Firebrand Group and the author of the book GoingSocial. To be clear, blogs, posts, and tweets have value, but content marketing will get harder in 2014 as brands struggle for scale, reach, and penetration. - Augie Ray , Former Forrester Analyst, Finance Social Media Executive. Social fatigue.

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A Socially-responsible, Triple-bottom line Taco Shop: SMB Tech Talk from Chaia

Hunter Walker

These people are true founders and entrepreneurs just like any venture backed company. We’ve also had some very generous artists contributing to our cache of usable imagery and promotional material – for which we are VERY grateful. HW: How have you financed your business to date? How did it all begin?

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Native App vs. Web App: Which Is Better for Mobile Commerce?

mashable.com

For brand loyalty and location hooks its actually a 3rd-Rail integration process ( foursquare and groupon, facebook ) There is a critical Key to this… having cache-able high performance entry for the user experience and some amount of offline functionality to support poor connectivity issue moments.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

.” Hackernews list of “Tools of the Trade” for startups - includes over 150 SaaS tools used by startups, and over 150 comments with interesting insights from founders. Varnish Cache (reverse proxy). easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Founder Equity Issues.