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

Both Sides of the Table

” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. I think there is also no denying the role that Richard Rosenblatt has played in building the LA tech ecosystem and spawning great entrepreneurs who followed in his footsteps. He built & IPOd Demand Media.

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Interview with Jimmy Hendricks, Deal Current

socalTECH

It's the biggest portion of our revenues at our company, and our clients include the Buffalo News, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, JDate, Spark network, and many entrepreneurs. We actually built that about a year and a half ago, and are bringing that back due to overwhelming demand. How do you think the industry will shake out?

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. So there is likely robust demand from borrowers. Enter P2P lending.

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Bro Factor – Intimate Relationships Which Provide Your Startup With An Unfair Advantage

InfoChachkie

two people involved in commerce, such as a salesman and a buyer, business development executives jointly crafting a deal, etc. As every salesperson with an expense account has known since the dawn of commerce, activities outside of work foster Bro’ing up. The relationship is borne from an artificial situation (e.g., Brother Oz.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

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Real-time information drives commerce. Read this story that is typical of many entrepreneurs with whom I talk. Most wont write stuff publicly because they fear retribution. I can’t put it in writing but I won’t stop it.” Real-time information drives decisions about marketing spend on movie releases.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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We were looking for what I call the “6 C’s of Social Networking&# – Communications, connectedness, common experiences, content, commerce & cool experiences (fun!). It was obviously a scheme set up by young entrepreneurs to line their pockets and some big-company executives who didn’t understand innovation.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

We provide turnkey digital messaging appliances for enterprises, service providers and software developers to send marketing, e-commerce, CRM and customer service email. Whatever the biggest, most challenging, most demanding, most important job we had at L90, I always turned to Tim. SMS, MMS, Instant Messaging, etc.)

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