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

Both Sides of the Table

” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. I think there is also no denying the role that Richard Rosenblatt has played in building the LA tech ecosystem and spawning great entrepreneurs who followed in his footsteps. “There’s something going on in LA.”

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Green Building

SoCal Tech Calendar

With the carrot in place and the stick coming, the industry is set to explode and it is huge: green building runs the gamut from high tech to innovative uses of low tech in order to reduce environmental impact, energy use and GHG, the ultimate goal being zero net energy use and no GHG emissions. Speakers include: Lance A. Williams, Ph.

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Catching Up With Mike Giardello, President of Innovate Pasadena

socalTECH

There are always the hard core entrepreneurs, who will do anything they have to do get it done, and they'll work in the basement, they'll literally use their car as their office, wherever. However, we have broad groups of entrepreneurs and types of technology, which makes it challenging to develop programming around that fits everyone.

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