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Catching Up With Mike Giardello, President of Innovate Pasadena

socalTECH

We have one of the most diverse ecosystems around, from software companies, to hardware companies, to hard science technology out of Caltech and JPL, to design driven opportunities out of the Art Center. Pasadena has long been known as the home for many spinouts of Caltech and JPL. Is that still the case?

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

Both Sides of the Table

What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

I'm blogging from the CalTech Enterprise Forum. Finally we get to: Peter Coffee , Director of Platform Research, Salesforce.com His premise is that we should be beyond having to buy servers, software, or any other infrastructure. Some other points - LAMP,Net, Java - doesn't make much difference. Server and client in Java.

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