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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

SoCal CTO

Quality of Events Of course, the bigger issue with events is finding the ones where you will have a really good opportunity to network with interesting people. They put on great events. I guess I should confess that I used to go to a lot more networking events.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. And of course the funding problem coincided with the stock market correction that took away most exit options for years to come. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry.