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Launchpad LA – More Details Revealed

Both Sides of the Table

Encourage the most successful LA tech entrepreneurs who had previously started companies to get involved as mentors, instructors or just informal advisors. We did a founder “eHarmony&# where I matched the CEO’s with their chosen mentors and each one mapped to a one VC. How’d we do?

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

Tech Zulu Event

Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures. Mark Douglas, Steelhouse President and CEO, is formerly from Oracle and was the VP of Technology at eHarmony. Abrams, Jim Wiatt, and Zach James have presented at Amplify’s Wednesday evening mentor events. Today’s startup innovators come from about six hours south of Silicon Valley.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. Mark founded Launchpad LA, a program designed to help mentor LA’s most promising first-time startup CEO’s.

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