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

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billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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I don’t need to tell you what else is LA … SnapChat, Whisper, Tinder. The problem that I’ve seen historically in cities like Los Angeles, San Diego or Seattle is that their historic high-net-worth individuals didn’t come from the tech startup world. All great communication companies. KickStarter?

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