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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

If commitment and drive were Jason’s first attraction, the extensive Amplify network came in a close second. Every founder can directly access any investor or mentor in the Amplify army of cohorts, which adds up to more than 70 of the most influential business professionals in Los Angeles and beyond.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. Alex Benzer: My partner and I met here in Los Angeles, in high school. We're definitely Los Angeles natives, but we got the opportunity to do TechStars. We started working on local web design projects, but got sick of that in six months.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

If commitment and drive were Jason’s first attraction, the extensive Amplify network came in a close second. Every founder can directly access any investor or mentor in the Amplify army of cohorts, which adds up to more than 70 of the most influential business professionals in Los Angeles and beyond.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s) - Steve Blank , July 15, 2010 If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. Angel vs VC? - Not so bad. Metrics availability.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

Post-Launch: Marketing Web Apps on a Budget. Building a web app is the easy part. Bootstrapping Marketing Strategy, social media marketing, web applications. . Entrepreneurism / Monetization cosmetics, social media, women in tech. . jim spencer, media convergence group. But, with the.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Streaming media. Social media. Social networking. Social games. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. Web Design Software. Web Hosting Software. Streaming video. Smartphones. Windows Phone.