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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

TechCrunch LA

As BCG writes in its report: The good news for SoCal and any region with tech ambitions is that the Bay Area has in some ways been too successful. Caltech generates more patents than any other university while UCLA boasts more startups founded by its graduate than any other school in the nation.

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TYLT Labs' New Seed Fund And The Promise Of Silicon Beach

socalTECH

We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. Anyone can talk a good game, and put together a proforma that looks great, and there are lots of great looking ideas, and people can even all have filed a provisional patent. We''re really looking for that first and foremost. Why not Los Angeles?

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And covered we did.

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Interview with Curtis Staker and William Goldbach, Confident Technologies

socalTECH

Last week, San Diego-based Confident Technologies (www.confidenttechnologies.com) announced that it had acquired the assets of Vidoop, and created a company focused on security and authentication of users. We also assumed over 50 pending patents, from ten different patent families.

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No Stairway (Infringement) and the Importance of Shared Design Tools in Innovation

Xconomy

For those who follow IP law, this is the tension behind the “abstraction test” in copyright and the recent Supreme Court software patent decision in Alice Corp. Normally, Western composers write in keys or scales that alternate whole steps and half steps between notes. He played the line through until shifting to a final D.

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Interview with Dipanshu Sharma, Kadonk

socalTECH

This morning's interview is with San Diego-based Kadonk (www.kadonk.com), a startup which is creating project management tools that work with Microsoft Project. Everyone wants to read a PDF, but few want to write or change them. Sharma is also one of the founders of V-Enable. Thanks for sitting down with us.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. She just spoke at TED EX in San Diego. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.