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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Just this year, Q2 investments in SoCal and New England were virtually the same, with $838 million and $843 million invested respectively, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Report. billion for its endowment in 2011 alone. MYTH 5: The SoCal crowd is better looking. Okay, so they got this one right. We came to play.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

We are also seeing the growth of social networks around topics of interest like StockTwits for people interested in investing in the stock market. At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). I believe that people already form topical social networks as evidenced in places like HackerNews or Quora.