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With New Program, DARPA To Encourage Safety “Brakes” For Gene Editing

Xconomy

“We should couple innovation with biosecurity,” DARPA program manager Renee Wegrzyn, said Tuesday at the SynBioBeta conference in South San Francisco. ” At the conference, FBI supervisory special agent Ed You told the audience the bureau is aware of the need for new biosecurity measures.

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Interview with Costin Tuculescu, Freebinar

socalTECH

We are targeting small businesses, startups, or anyone who doesn't want to pay the $50 to $100 a month for web conferencing technology. Freebinar gives them a solution that includes screen sharing, voice over IP audio, broadcast, conference calling, and allow you to meet with as many as 150 people at the same time.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. When you begin to peel back the onion some surprising data presents itself.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. Felipe grew up in Brazil. But I have some.

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

socalTECH

Cliff Rees: We're a software as a solutions company. We wrote all of the core components of our technology, from the ground up--even our SIP stack, OIP application, session-border, softswitch, and media server--which runs on standards-based, off-the shelf servers. So, we see ourselves as a technology provider.

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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

socalTECH

We were invited in March to the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference to present. The site looks to be very well executed, where did you get the technology expertise to pull off the site? James Chung: My previous background is in software engineering. Are people really willing to sell their stuff to benefit charities?

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

LA has the annual Monty Conference. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. A local tech winner really creates a generational technology opportunity in the way nothing else can. I’ve seen it work in Boulder with DeFrag and Gluecon. Austin has Dell.

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