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Does a VCs Culture Really Matter? The Upfront Story

Both Sides of the Table

Historically we were near Beverly Hills in Los Angeles and throughout the 1990s and early 2000s this was fine since there was not strong locus in LA with some great deals in Pasadena, downtown, San Fernando Valley as well as on the Westside in Santa Monica. And LA shifted to Santa Monica and Venice. At the time I was 44.

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Westside “Hatches” New Coworking Studio

Tech Zulu Event

a few blocks shy of Santa Monica, is the Westside’s new coworking studio called Hatch. Built around the idea of convergence between creativity, serenity and design, the boutique studio launched in April 2015 to serve as gathering spot for freelancers, tech types and entertainment folks to get out the house and into their projects.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

Tech Zulu Event

and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S. It’s a community and work space focused on empowering entrepreneurs, startups, freelancers, programmers, designers, professionals, and all awesome people in general. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers! Dinesh earned his B.S.

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Spotlight: LA Tech SuperDemo Announced! | Mike Jones Former Myspace CEO

Tech Zulu Event

This included stabilizing a historically negative traffic and user trend, reducing the operational cost of the business by nearly 90 percent and pivoting the product from its legacy as a social network to a social entertainment destination. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

SoCal Delicious

Even though their business model was tweaked a little while ago to give customers additional leniency, the business is still expecting to break $100 million in revenue this year, up from $25 million in 2010. Google quickly bought AdSense in 2003 and Elbaz’s AS team became Google Santa Monica. Matt Coffin – LowerMyBills.com.