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Los Angeles’s Secret to Startup Success

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s other startup advantages include: A long media history: Companies such as Netflix and Buzzfeed are based in L.A. The most important point is to reinvest in your people and communities by hosting events and educational sessions. This is one of the essential ingredients that make up a sustainable startup community.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010. Current round: $20mm in Series C by Accel Partners (Jim Breyer, board member at Wal-Mart, Dell, and FaceBook), KPCB, and DAG Ventures. Total raised: $29.5mm. Read more: CrunchBase profile , TechCrunch. Read more: VentureWire (requires login) , SF Business Times.

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Assignmint: Freelance Work Available | Founder Interview, The Future of Journalism & The LA Startup Scene

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It’s not only the publishers; writers need to be educated too. We are hoping to educate new writers. We have to educate everyone to make sure the terms are known and you can plan accordingly. I would like to see people, publishers and writers, come on board to Assignmint and use our payment gateway.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Why Most Online Video Companies Will Fail

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Usually I tell them to study Upworthy & Buzzfeed. I’m not an investor but truthfully I love Upworthy and its goal is distributing content with a social mission to educate people on complex social issues. Here is an example. This morning I logged into Facebook. I was seeing the video because I had previously liked Upworthy.

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