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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Tracy DiNunzio isn’t your typical Silicon Valley startup founder. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30. And she didn’t start her company in Northern California. She leveraged herself and even sold many of her possessions to get started. She started her business from a personal need.

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

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Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. LA By The Numbers. But even this is changing.

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Fred Wilson and Andy Weissman Talk with Lindel Eakman about Transitioning Leadership at a VC Fund

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Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) —  Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham  — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ). Lindel Eakman led the discussion with Fred and Andy.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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We caught up with Ryan (who calls himself an "anti-VC") to hear more about his investment firm, which has invested in such companies as Heal , Elite Daily , Saucey , and FragMob. Tell us a bit of the story on how you started HashtagOne? We want to have startups we can get productive or generating revenue pretty quickly.

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From Nothing to Something with Howard Marks & Nanxi Liu

Tech Zulu Event

We live in a generation of startups,” Marks began. He described why the time is so ripe for innovation and why this was a great time to build startups. Marks continued to talk about his past and then talked about the startup landscape in Los Angeles. I built up credibility.”. It was the morning of June 26th, 2012.

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Pipeline Fellowship | Raising Women to Become Investors

Tech Zulu Event

There were only 22% women who invested in 2012. Natalia not only wants to increase the number of women in investment, but bring more people in total to help startups and other businesses get the capital they need. We have three main components: education, mentoring, and practice. Men have dominated the world of investment.

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Proven | Founder Interview with Pablo Fuentes. Job Markets, & The Future of Mobile

Tech Zulu Event

TechZulu: Let’s start off with an obvious question. Pablo Fuentes: It first started in 2009 when I was in business school originally. The current iteration of what we are doing now has been around since 2012. I ended up staying and raising money and we finally were able to launch our Candidate app.

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