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Los Angeles Startup Events

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I recently posted about the Increase in Early-Stage Startup Activity in Los Angeles. I realized that it has been a little while since I posted about the Los Angeles Startup Community and so needed to update my list of startup events that will be out of date almost before I finish publishing it.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

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Everyone from our team is from Finland, one is from Portugal, and we come and go between California and Finland. How did you end up here in Southern California? Only a few people posts polls, but people who have active accounts might vote maybe 300 times. Why did you decide to locate in Southern California?

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

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Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. For example, if you are looking at the roster of the Oregon Ducks, if you are a woman in New York, you may see a different ad than if you are a man in Southern California. I was working with Madison Square Garden, the Knicks, the Rangers, and others.

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Interview with Kanaan Jemili, uCast Global

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3 very active, 3 have been deployed. Those are the three active areas, and we have several customers and have made lots of headway there. Kanaan Jemili: I have been in Southern California for more than 18 years. Who are your core customers? Kanaan Jemili:We have about six areas we focus on. I have a Ph.D.

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Interview with Andrew Humphries, UK's Tech City

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(Editor's note: Los Angeles has always had strong ties to business in the UK, and the UK government has been very active in reaching out to Los Angeles technology firms in recent years. This week, entrepreneurs from all around the world have converged upon East London to attend the Tech City Entrepreneurs Festival.

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

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If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. Sendgrid (www.sendgrid.com) has stepped into that void, providing application programming interfaces (APIs) and all the infrastructure required to handle that email delivery. How do you offload all those headaches?

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers. It seems to be geared on a “Monopoly” style game.