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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

Tech Zulu Event

Months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. This Spotlight takes place Thursday, February 2, at Caltech. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Companies: Spotlight Companies.

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

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” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. “There’s something going on in LA.”

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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

TechCrunch LA

Founded by Steve Poizner last year to accelerate the growth of a startup entrepreneurial ecosystem in Southern California, The Alliance is building a network of investors, entrepreneurs and universities to provide ballast in the south to the dominance of the Northern California tech industry.

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Making The Pasadena Angels Relevant To Today's Startups, With Terry Kay

socalTECH

Terry Kay: We have always been about helping the entrepreneurs succeed, first, and then, we figure out how we get our fair share from that success. He started the group because he wanted to help companies succeed. The premise was, let''s help companies succeed, and cut ourselves a fair deal, and treat entrepreneurs in a decent way.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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I recommend that you start by writing down the attributes you would want people to think about when they think about your brand. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. We’ll work our asses off and build huge companies that will define the next generation of American’s lives.” North of the 101].

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

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One example is that they introduced a program where their founders can pool together shares from their company and exchange them for a small portfolio of other First Round Capital companies. As a courtesy if you enjoyed his write-up please check out his startup company, ChannelStack. I'm a huge fan of this innovation.

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

socalTECH

I think we've done some of the really exciting companies in LA, including most recently Clicker, Machinima, BUZZmedia, and SVnetwork. A lot of people don't know it, but we also have an early growth fund, Redpoint Omega, which also gives us the flexibility to invest as little as $50,000 in a company, which we do quite often.

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