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

Both Sides of the Table

When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story. Commerce: What is less known is just how important LA is as a commerce hub. Stuff you may not know about LA?

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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

socalTECH

We were invited in March to the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference to present. James Chung: My previous background is in software engineering. I spent six years in e-commerce, developing e-commerce platforms, and am pretty familiar with that. Are people really willing to sell their stuff to benefit charities?

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