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President Obama Stresses Jobs, Education In First Silicon Beach Visit

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In the first time that President Barack Obama has paid a special visit to the epicenter of Southern California''s high tech industry, the President spoke for over an hour to an audience of entrepreneurs at Cross Campus , the Santa Monica coworking space, touching on topics around providing an infrastructure for the next generation of entrepreneurs.

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USC Viterbi Launches Startup Accelerator

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Add another startup accelerator to the growing list of Southern California startup accelerators: this time, from the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering. Southern California--and Los Angeles, in particular--appears to become the hub of startup accelerators lately.

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What Mattered in 2012: Paul Bricault, Amplify LA

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For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. He's also a very active angel investor and advisor to local startups. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? READ MORE>>.

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What Mattered in 2010: Greg Martin, Archer Venture Capital

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All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. At Archer we are focused on working with southern California's best entrepreneurs at the earliest stages to build disruptive new businesses. 2010 was a momentus year for me personally.

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Digital Family Reunion | Make New Friends, But Keep The Old

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Silicon Beach as we know it didn’t exist, coworking was unheard of, and an angel was mainly thought of as a heavenly creature, not the likes of Paige Craig. Jason Calacanis coined the SoCal scene the “Digital Coast,” and Brad Nye brought everyone together at his notorious VIC events (Venice Interactive Community).

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Interview with Yossi Vardi

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It's our pleasure today to feature an interview with Yossi Vardi , one of Israel's best known high tech entrepreneurs. What is it about Israel that has made it such a center of high tech and startups? Yossi Vardi: Israel has what a lot of countries have--good universities, well educated people, a high literacy rate, etc.

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Interview with Matthew Jenusaitis, OCTANe

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Last year, we did fifty different educational programs, talking to on the order of 10,000 people in those fifty programs. There was also a fair amount of early stage investment, more so than in the past few years, which is a really positive sign. You see that it's pretty high here in Orange County, as it is in San Diego.

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