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

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Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. He built & IPOd Demand Media. Around $400 billion of imports & exports pass through the LA ports each year, which set the national high-water mark in 2012. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite.

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

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I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). I predict this will come before the end of 2012. What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0