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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. For anyone from California, you know there are vast differences between the northern and southern parts of the state – so vast in fact that, to us, they could just as easily stand alone as two separate states. Social networking. Social games.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

Tech Zulu Event

. · Milk & Honey has had shoes designed by Rachael Ray, Ginnifer Goodwin, Malin Akerman, and Kate Mara amongst others and has appeared in People, Redbook, Inked, Lucky, Bridal Guide, InStyle, Marie Claire, and numerous other publications. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7 The founders previously ran another company together.

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

SoCal Delicious

Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene. TMZ reports: “The Winklevii have their eye on SoCal as the new Silicon Valley (which is home to Facebook and Apple) thanks to L.A.’s Balderdash Developers Log(n) Consultants RelayStrategy Developers Smartsourcing Global Services Epsilon Concepts - LA Web Design Company Developers.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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When we invest they are often the company counsel so we see them at board meetings. So I tell you this because if you build a strong relationship with an early-stage VC they can be a great source to help you with your funding. So it doesn’t have to be a small firm. He mostly covers Southern California.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

Southern California has had its share of new startup accelerators launch in the last few months, however, few people here have actually experienced an accelerator firsthand. We started working on local web design projects, but got sick of that in six months. It's actually uncommon to have a female CTO. READ MORE>>.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

At some point it will be quite obvious whether the super angels’ investments and strategy succeed or fail. Dave McClure's Investment Thesis - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , July 31, 2010 I’ve been a fan of Dave McClure since I met him some time ago. Yesterday he outlined his investment thesis on his blog. at a $2.5M

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