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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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Interview with Anne Walls and John Singleton, WordHustler

socalTECH

I went to UCLA, and majored in English, and then worked in Hollywood for ten years, for companies such as CAA, Paramount, and Judd Apatow. I started my career as a technologist, as a software engineer. How's the company funded? Did you bootstrap this or get some funding? My background, is I'm from Los Angeles.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

Tech Zulu Event

The final showoff's have been selected, so that brings the count to a total of 10 showoff's plus a wild card from the demo night at UCLA (full list of showoff's below). Quilici received a PhD in computer science from UCLA, and from 1991-1999 was a faculty member at the University of Hawaii. . Bambi Francisco. Dave McClure. .