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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. Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market.

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Skate Where the Puck is Going

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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 Mike Gammarino, Students4Startups

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To solve that issue, Mike, as well as a number of other entrepreneurs here in Southern California, is in the midst of organizing Students4Startups (www.students4startups.com), a group which hopes to connect graduating students in the area to local startup companies. Mike tells us about the group: Mike, thanks for the time today.

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LA Startup Report 2013 | A Rising Forecast

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The wide range of startups is great and creates more opportunities for new talent and entrepreneurs to join the Los Angeles area. With Yahoo!, A centralized startup community provides a stronger and talented group of individuals, entrepreneurs, and investors to communicate and build a healthier startup community.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. You don’t have the founders of eBay, LinkedIn, Salesforce.com and Yahoo. You don’t. Get over it. Come join us.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. 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 have some great mentors now.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m. RSVP: AGENDA.