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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

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For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Everything happens in the browser (no software to download) and the finished product looks amazing on large screens! Idealab continues to explore a range of technology frontiers.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

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For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

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Mingly Launches Mingly Web and MyPeople | Manage Your TwitFaceMailBookLink

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After an initial round of seed funding of $500k led by Pasadena’s Idealab, Mingly saw great success as they built up their Gmail user base. Some screen shots of Mingly’s products including a) Mingly for Web’s dashboard and b) Ming’s contact snapshots : . Finally, some solid relief.

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Interview with Rob Kramer, HipSwap

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Rob Kramer: My partner and I had been developing apps and platforms for year, and had been Craiglist and eBay users, but only reluctantly. There's a screen that we throw a product at you, an image of that product, which lets you "hip it" -- similar to a favorite or like -- or "skip it". What's the story behind the company?

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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

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Friday evening, August 19th, rolled around and Startup Weekend LA was underway with attendees showing up at Coloft in Santa Monica around 6:00 pm and the classic Idealab keg there to quench everyone’s thirst. Also of note was Ryan Orrico’s launch of HandJob, a new form of job applicant screening and referral tracking.

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Insteegram: Tech Meets Fashion | Interview with Founder Ed Park

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Park had a screen-printing business in 2004, starting with his own $4,000 investment. He worked with High School and College students, striving to make it easy for anyone to become an entrepreneur. “At He is a great developer and one of the best programmers, always getting poached by all of these recruiters.”

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Presenting Companies at CalTech

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For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. They are dedicated to providing high-availability systems, beautiful user interfaces, furious developer support and unparalleled customer care. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship.

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