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How YP Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent? Our whole product and technology team is about 500 people. Louis and Atlanta.

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How YP.com Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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One of the largest concentrations of technical talent in Los Angeles is in Glendale, at YP (www.yp.com) -- staffed with a surprising number of Los Angeles startup vets. How did what was a staid publisher of phone books become a hotbed of online talent? Our whole product and technology team is about 500 people. Louis and Atlanta.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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I have been close to the tech & startup sectors for more than 20 years and I can’t think of a period in which I felt more optimistic about the innovation and value creation I see in front of us. So it is unsurprising that an over-funding environment and the commensurate returns hangover would have lasted until about – well – 2012.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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US TV advertising is $60 billion in its own right. Let’s review all of our existing investments. Not just tech companies but industrials, too. I’ll bet many of them did a review of their “investment pace&# as in – how quickly should we be investing. Here's the graph for the books.].

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. ” Residents of Northern California (everyone north of Bakersfield) don’t understand how we do it, constantly touting Palo Alto’s tech scene. The top five tournaments for “StarCraft 2″ in the month of June 2012 had combined prize-pools of over $150,000.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

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Nearly every successful tech startup I’ve observed over the past 20 years has gone through a similar growth pattern: Innovate, systematize then scale operations. We weren’t in enough cities to do national advertising campaigns yet we weren’t centralized enough to benefit off of our central marketing traction.

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Startup Tips From College Dropouts: Zuckerberg, Jobs, Gates, Dell, Ellison, Branson and Disney

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HIGHEST DEGREE OBTAINED BY AMERICA'S 400 RICHEST PEOPLE Source: Forbes Magazine, Jan 2012. According to a January 2012 Forbes article, nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. Richard leveraged the fact that record companies were Student’s biggest advertisers to subsequently launch a record store.

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