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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

SoCal CTO

And here's where you can find more events: SoCalTech Calendar – A great aggregation of events around Southern California that has been pulled together for years by Ben Kuo. Southern California Tech Central – Brings together posts from top bloggers around Southern California including John's blog and this blog.

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Tinder's April Fool: Height Verification

socalTECH

Tinder also said, in its blog post announcing the "feature" said "Did it ever occur to you that honesty is what separates humans from sinister monsters? Of course not." READ MORE>>.

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Mahalo Retools As Educational Content Apps Provider

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The firm has been fairly quiet recently, but apparently in the last few months has retooled itself as an "educational startup", focused on providing courses on the iPad, iPhone, and Android, in addition to YouTube, the web, and Apple's iBook platform.

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Reflections on 2018: Andy Wilson, Alliance for SoCal Innovation

socalTECH

Of course, Id like to believe the important community building work well be doing at the Alliance will be transformational to SoCal. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018?

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Interview with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage, SendLove.to

socalTECH

Since then, the two left to start a brand new startup, SendLove.to (www.sendlove.to), which launched Tuesday, focused on allowing users to rate public figures in news stories, blogs, and elsewhere. Effectively, what Corey and I are trying to do, is distill the course of opinions on the web, and turn that into a consumable format.

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Interview with Michael Wong, MergeLocal

socalTECH

We had worked together for six years before starting MergeLocal, which came about on the golf course. He put out a blog article and spreadsheet which outlined if you were going to be able to scale your sales team, or if something was not scalable. My other co-founder, Rusty Jenkins, was also with that company, doing sales.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

Of course I have. In LA we have SoCalTech , for which I am grateful. Fred Wilson wrote an eloquent piece on his blog about “ recycling capital ,&# which every regional community should read. And of course you need a mature venture capital industry. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. It’s important.