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Los Angeles Startup Events

SoCal CTO

Founder Dating Los Angeles LA Demo Day Startups Uncensored Tech Cofounder Dating Los Angeles TechCoastAngels Online Events Venice Tech Entrepreneurs Downtown Startups LA Startup Nights Santa Barbara Startup Weekend Silicon Beach Fest Silicon Beach Startups Los Angeles Startup Weekend Hollywood Hackday Startup Weekend Los Angeles LA Tech Happy Hour (..)

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. On the one hand, an entrepreneur should not be overly paranoid and should know the ropes that VCs and other professional investors generally will not sign NDAs to see the concept or a prototype--and even if they did, it would not provide much protection.

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Skate Where the Puck is Going

Both Sides of the Table

Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. The other reason for building it, is LA is crapped on all the time from a press perspective and entrepreneur perspective. I was really into graphic design in high school, and took several summer workshops at Caltech. We scaled that to almost $1.4

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The Talent Tourniquet | Making Los Angeles Startup Friendly

Tech Zulu Event

That kind of vote isn’t exactly encouraging to companies and entrepreneurs with new and potentially disruptive business models looking to plant roots here. Another idea was to tap into the talent pool at CalTech, UCLA and USC early using accessible internship programs through a public-private partnership with the City.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. Streaming media. Streaming media. Social media. Social networking. Social games. And, let’s not overlook the research juggernaut called Caltech, which managed $332 million in sponsored research and $1.77 Cloud storage. Enterprise. Acquisition. Developers.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement.

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