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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

Here it seems that entrepreneurs are coming out of business school, transitioning from corporate life, or hail from the entertainment industry. Whereas in Silicon Valley, you can have a V.1 He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Booyah’s most popular application is social LBS game is MyTown; users engage in a mobile game centered around real world locations and activities, including check-ins, virtual purchases of real-life locations, collecting rent on properties, virtual goods. Time will tell.