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Hack4LA Looks To Help Local Communities, Government

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Can your software skills help make your local community a better place? Could doing some coding over a weekend help improve your local government? According to the group, the hackathon is the first ever "civic hackathon" in Los Angeles, and asks participants to pull in civic data from the City of LA to help power apps.

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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

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Operating experience (Helped run parts of CitySearch & UrbanSpoon, tons of product management experience, Board of Hatch Labs which helped spawn Tinder). Helped merge company with Seedling – on track to do $20 million combined revenue in 2015 – will now become Chairman).

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. When Ethan was considering leaving Google we talked about it. So there you have it.

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Female Founders and CEOs | Talia Goldstein of Three Day Rule

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Who with her Co-Founder Valerie Brennan , left a high profile position to help make a difference in peoples lives. We began doing singles events, matchmaking, and date coaching. It was Citysearch for women to find guys. So we wanted to help other women on the best places to go and find particular guys based on type.

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Female Founders and CEOs | Valerie Brennan of Three Day Rule

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I’m glad I choose to become a lawyer as the skills proved very useful later on and have helped tremendously with the business itself. We both had different types and interests in men and thought it would be great if there was a Citysearch for women based upon types. I feel I came full circle in the business light.

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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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