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Catching Up With Mike Giardello, President of Innovate Pasadena

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We had a great launch and have seen great success, which has validated the fact that there is a lot of pent up demand for an organization here. A lot of the time, a critical mass of companies might build up around an area�say, in consumer based apps, or a particular kind of software, or therapeutic biotech.

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

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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. He built & IPOd Demand Media. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area.