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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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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. The other reason for building it, is LA is crapped on all the time from a press perspective and entrepreneur perspective. After TechStars, how did you end up in LA?

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

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I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. Arguably the greatest research and development nexus in the United States rests in the area spanning San Diego to Los Angeles. Web Design Software. Web Hosting Software. Let’s compare.