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

Both Sides of the Table

They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 Yes, Google won.

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An Enchanting Conversation With Guy Kawasaki

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As Guy notes in the accompanying video interview, his primary goal with Enchantment is to reach a broader audience, beyond the high-tech, startup world. Guy, how would your 2004 book, Art Of The Start , differ, if you were writing it today? I think Google+ is a great, great mechanism for enchanting people.”.

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Catching Up With Joanne Bradford, Demand Media

socalTECH

The company went from a venture backed high tech startup to an IPO as a publicly traded firm, and over its time has battled the perception of being a "content farm", suffered through Google and its Panda update, and now has emerged as a major content partner for Google, via YouTube. Can you explain that process?

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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. If you care about a free product then you should obviously use Google Voice. I was a Google Desktop user for years. Unfortunately I was wrong.

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For a Startup, Two Heads are Always Better Than One

Startup Professionals Musings

If you live in the middle of nowhere, your chances of finding the right co-founder for your new high-tech startup are poor. Get this in writing as a standard pre-nuptial. Of course, if you’re the next Google, you may only need one. Watch out for non-compete clauses, and conflicts of interest with the current employer.

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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

socalTECH

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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