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

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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. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 Yes, Google won. But even this is changing.

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Catching Up With Joanne Bradford, Demand Media

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Santa Monica-based Demand Media (www.demandmedia.com) has seen its share of ups and downs as one of the highest visibility technology and media companies to come out of Southern California's technology ecosystem in recent years. But, they could not write, and did not know what to write from the travel perspective.

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

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I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. But I have some.

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Productivity Hacks: Voicemail, Folders & To-Do’s

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They taught us to write down questions when they came up and batch them together in point sheets. OK, before you all tell me about Google Voice, let me say the following. PhoneTag uses a combination of technology and human translation and thus has a much better accuracy rate. I was a Google Desktop user for years.

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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

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Although Los Angeles has become a hub for the high tech startup world, Surprisingly, one of the things which hasn't happened in the Los Angeles area is any huge, successful venture acceleration programs. Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1. Bruce, what's your background?

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

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This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. For 1991 I was very technical and also had a lot of practical business implementation experience in technology. You’re a tech guy. My starting salary was $27,000. We take MBAs.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. but: Something is Still Missing.