SoCal Tech Calendar
NOVEMBER 6, 2009
Thursday, November 12, 2009 -- Introduction to Perl, Learn to Read Perl. When you set out to learn a new language, do you start out by writing an essay? So why try to learn to program or write test scripts that way? Of course not! See [link] (more).
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APRIL 5, 2010
I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Crazy, huh?
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APRIL 17, 2010
The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each.
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JANUARY 14, 2014
Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. Higher education. source: Harris Interactive IM Shopping Poll (August 2009)). But it still is a major force and it ain’t going away. PHONE CALLS.
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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010
A new group of investors have clustered around writing earlier-stage, smaller checks. We picked up activity aggressively in 2009. It basically boils down to: educate, entertain, have a dialog, don’t be boring and don’t sit on large panels (doh!). So in the past we needed VC to really get a startup going.
SoCal Delicious
MAY 6, 2012
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. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009.
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MAY 18, 2014
We’ve gotten to the point where after the film The Social Network and now with our own ironic HBO drama “Silicon Valley,” (makes it sound like writing a algorithm can easily net you $10 million without trying) one might think starting a company is a bit like the gold rush where riches flow to you with ease.
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