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Catching Up With Mike Giardello, President of Innovate Pasadena

socalTECH

As we have developed over the last few years, we've started running our own events, and tried out our own connect weekend in 2014, and that went to a full week the next year. However, we have broad groups of entrepreneurs and types of technology, which makes it challenging to develop programming around that fits everyone.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. What do Bill Gross and Gil Elbaz have in common that portends well for the future of LA Tech? What Do We See From the Road Ahead?

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. Level 1 & 2 Burden is still on the developers, you still have infrastructure. Some other points - LAMP,Net, Java - doesn't make much difference. It's funny. I would tend to agree.

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