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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

TechCrunch LA

Los Angeles investor Mark Suster, a general partner with Upfront Ventures , has been beating the drum for Los Angeles as a new tech hub for a while — and billion dollar exits for Ring and Dollar Shave Club, in addition to the public offering for Snap, lend credence to his position.

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TYLT Labs' New Seed Fund And The Promise Of Silicon Beach

socalTECH

Gerard Casale: We''ve been agnostic to the kinds of deals we''ve been making over the last five or six years we''ve been angel investors. A few years back, I started looking at angel investing. Why start an investment firm in Los Angeles? Why not Los Angeles? Tell us a little bit about your investments and firm?

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3 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know about Indiana Innovation

Xconomy

It makes sense for Indiana institutions to encourage innovation that helps the world, since then-Senator Birch Bayh of Indiana worked with then-Senator Bob Dole of Kansas to create the bipartisan Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act, or Bayh-Dole Act, in 1980. The results?

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Interview with Matthew Jenusaitis, OCTANe

socalTECH

Launchpad is a virtual incubator and accelerator, where we put companies in and give them quantitative and qualitative feedback and mentorship. You have to give thanks to Southwest Airlines and Virgin America for their $39 flights, which makes it a day trip to SFO or San Jose.

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