socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2013

Among the reasons given in a blog post from IVP, defending its investment in Snapchat: the firm loves LA. Los Angeles hasn''t had a huge success with highly valued companies--the last firm to be in that position was Viddy, which had to recap the firm earlier this year after failing to live up to those valuations. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 30, 2019

The Los Angeles-based company has steadily expanded its retail and lifestyle empire through subscription boxes, video… and even an augmented reality app. Last year the company crossed $200 million in revenue and managed to net over 1 million subscribers for the service. ”

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Josh Resnick is a serial entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of nProgress , the company behind ntro. Josh was formerly the President of Pandemic Studios, and helped co-found the company, merge it with Bioware, and eventually sell the combined firm to Electronic Arts for $860M. What's the idea behind the ntro?

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Frank Addante

SEPTEMBER 25, 2006

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Cisco, Oracle, Apple, Electronic Arts and Atari. ► October (1) New Video! .

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

Some of my friends who were forced to go into startup companies ended up working for these biotech firms that became huge, and they made a lot of money by not being able to get a job. They mostly went to work for companies doing programming languages. I started the company for all the wrong reasons. I had this path to choose.

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