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Catalyzing Innovation In Pasadena, with Innovate Pasadena

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As much as the idea of "Silicon Beach" wants to represent the whole of the local technology industry in Los Angeles, there are -- as one would expect in such a large metropolitan area -- many different neighborhoods and communities spread across the region, all with their own individual identities, companies, and technology focuses.

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Interview with Chris Lyman and Corey Brundage, SendLove.to

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Chris Lyman: The way the technology manifests itself, is we have a database of two million names. Places are rated pretty well--you've got Yelp taking care of that, CitySearch, and other sites doing that really well. Instead, what we have tried to do, is turn the social web into a sort of representative democracy.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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It really wouldn’t take much to turn a great technology ecosystem into a truly electric one. In Los Angeles we don’t have “patron technology companies&# that are big enough to matter – we’re still hoping to see them emerge. LA and Seattle are in the second (or third) major wave of technology innovation.