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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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2011

That's the problem that the mobile app ntro is looking to solve. Josh Resnick is a serial entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of nProgress , the company behind ntro. Josh sat down to talk to us his new company and its new app. Josh sat down to talk to us his new company and its new app. What's the idea behind the ntro?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

And we had these vans and mobile kegs in the back, and we would go to golf courses. 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.

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