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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Just this year, Q2 investments in SoCal and New England were virtually the same, with $838 million and $843 million invested respectively, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Report. billion for its endowment in 2011 alone. MYTH 5: The SoCal crowd is better looking. Okay, so they got this one right.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

At the bottom end of the stack is storage (S3) and processing (EC2). And one of the cooler new products that will emerge in 2011 is called LocalResponse and is being created by Nihal Mehta , who has pivoted from his previous company Buzzd, but I’m sworn to secrecy on what he’s up to until he releases it publicly.