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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Features like this, as well as our daily interviews wouldn’t be possible without the amazing support of our sponsor eMinutes – a law firm here in Los Angeles that focuses on helping entrepreneurs structure their companies.

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Reflections on 2019: Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures

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This was a big year for Crosscut because were finally delivering on our promise of implementing a full-scale investing platform after 11+ years in business. Growing our practice from 3 original partners who would meet at coffee shops into a full institutional investing platform is a constant evolution. in 2005 for $680M.

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Core Innovation Capital's Quest To Find Finance Innovation, With Arjan Schutte

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Los Angeles has recently become the hotbed for financial startups--from Green Dot, to Blackline Systems, to Wallaby and ZestCash. How did you end up in Los Angeles? We started in Chicago, ten years ago, when I started a think tank that focuses on the, the Center for Financial Services and Innovation.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Thats not Los Angeles. Okay, maybe not Pauly Shore.

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Interview with Eli Portnoy, ThinkNear

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Towards the end of last month, Culver City-based ThinkNear (www.thinknear.com) announced a seed round of funding for its location-based mobile advertising service, with notable inclusion of such firms as IA Ventures, Google Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures, and others. The geography between New York and Los Angeles is very different.

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Social Networking and Business Value

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Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius. He has also sailed a boat across the Atlantic.

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Interview with Taher Scherzay, FavRav

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For today's profile, we decided to talk with Taher Scherzay , Founder of FavRav (www.FavRav.com), a Los Angeles-based firm which has created a Facebook application to help small businesses find customers through social media, and also allow consumers to better tap the referral network of their friends. What's the idea behind FavRav?

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