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General Assembly Raises $35M In Funding Round

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General Assembly , which conducts classes on web development, Photoshop, Javascript, digital marketing, and all kinds of other topics through its location in Los Angeles, has just scored a $35M funding round, a Series C for the company. IVP''s Todd Chaffee joins the company''s board.

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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

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At Spin Media, we tried to do that ourselves, but that really sucked up product and development resources, who really should have been working on building the user experience, rather than ads. We tried to use third parties, but rich media companies are great ad serving agencies, but not so good at serving publishers. READ MORE>>.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

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After 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. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Companies: Spotlight Companies. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship. View Larger Map.

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Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

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There is a weird Apollo 13… thing about not having enough resources and everybody having to sit around… and figure out how we’re gonna make this thing work that produces great innovation.” Learn JavaScript. I lost a degree of feeling for what really was happening in the company.” ’ Just know the basics.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

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The chart shows three scarce resources and their improvements over time. Throughout the 90′s the PC became much more popular in corporate environments, so companies began to replace dumb terminals with PCs. But for software developers like my company the web was a blessing. The money slide is the graphic below.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

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Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Gold Sponsor. . VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

Tech Zulu Event

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Gold Sponsor. . VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group.

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