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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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Evan Spiegel , SnapChat (Los Angeles, mobile app). Thorsten von Eicken , Rightscale (Santa Barbara, cloud computing). event socaltech50 awards entrepreneur entrepreneurship feature dfr2013' There are also many movers and shakers here in the industry -- Jason Nazar at. Ethan Senturia , Dealstruck (San Diego, crowdfunding).

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc). Because this is all VCs do and if we intend to work with all of our fellow VCs and entrepreneurs when the rain ends and the sun shines again our reputations matter greatly. The iPhone was released.