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Be Great Fest | Celebrating Los Angeles’ Startup Ecosystem

Tech Zulu Event

Meet the next generation of startup success stories at Be Great Fest in Los Angeles. Their mission: to support a charity, savor the hot SoCal nightlife, and transform Los Angeles into the startup capital of the world. Although the Startup Genome Project named Los Angeles the No. 3 startup ecosystem in the world, with L.A.

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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

socalTECH

Chance Barnett , Crowdfunder (Los Angeles, crowdfunding). Allison Beal , StyleSaint (Los Angeles, fashion). James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Josh Brooks , OnTheRunTech.com dba Post Cards On The Run (Los Angeles, mobile apps).

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Why an Atlanta-based Black influencer collective swapped their collab house for a studio

TechCrunch LA

From Los Angeles to Silicon Valley , a trend emerged among social media influencers and startup founders alike: move into a mansion with 10 or so collaborators, work day and night together to build fame and wealth, and hope that your new roommates do their dishes. “Some of these programs are cool, but it’s like, what’s after that?

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

TechCrunch LA

Earlier Yellow bets skewed more toward content investments as Snapchat was scaling Discover. making their way to Los Angeles. Now Su says he’s fielding plenty of augmented reality pitches. ”

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

Tech Zulu Event

Incubator: Amplify LA. Fun Fact: Los Angeles heavy hitters J.J. Social Media: Snapchat. Developed by four Stanford University students, Snapchat , now located in Venice, is a new way to share moments with friends and family. Abrams, Jim Wiatt, and Zach James have presented at Amplify’s Wednesday evening mentor events.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

Both Sides of the Table

I had an enjoyable conversation this morning with a young team straight out of college this morning and they were calling to ask advice on how to approach fund raising (angels vs. VCs, how to select a VC, etc.) It’s a bit of all of these. and I realized that without years of experience it is tough to answer this question. FourSquare.

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From Nothing to Something with Howard Marks & Nanxi Liu

Tech Zulu Event

Marks continued to talk about his past and then talked about the startup landscape in Los Angeles. We were going to be interviewing with Howard Marks for his incubator, StartEngine, in the morning. What is your vision for the startup landscape in Los Angeles over the next several years? It was the morning of June 26th, 2012.

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