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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. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. In the last month alone (ie not captures in the $1.5 ”).

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Should Startups Care About Profitability?

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Or you know the other one — the one where Snapchat lost $2 billion in just one quarter. Is the revenue dependent on a concentrated set of distribution partners or platforms that put future revenue at risk? Two-f **g-billion! What a disaster! Except that they didn’t actually lose $2 billion in cash. Not necessarily.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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Our social graphs are locked in Facebook, Twitter and Snapchat. I speak to colleagues who participate in trading crypto who tell me that there are coordinate rings on encrypted instant messaging platforms like Telegram to have coordinated buying and selling of new currencies. So Where Do I Personally Net Out?

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