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Interview with Adi Jaffe, All About Addiction

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To understand how one local company is making that transition, we talked with Los Angeles-based All About Addiction (www.allaboutaddiction.com), a company that grew out of Adi Jaffe's work at UCLA as a trained psychologist. My sister, who is a physician, laughed at me when I told her I had this tool. Adi Jaffe: It is tough.

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Interview Eric Sikola, ExpenseBay

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Eric Sikola is CEO of ExpenseBay (www.expensebay.com), a Los Angeles-based, online, software-as-a-service startup which has created an online application which uses Web 2.0 There was nothing out there in the market which would be the personal assistant, or the personal finance tool to do expense reports. How big is the firm now?

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The Power of “In Person” – Why Distributed Teams are Less Effective

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In the era of Skype, web conferencing tools and collaboration software conventional wisdom says that distributed startup teams can be just as effective as those that are in person. This is a topic that comes up often in Los Angeles because many CEOs are tempted to hire their tech teams in the Bay Area. What about offshoring?