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Reflections on 2018: Michael Jones, Science Inc.

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Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. One theme I saw repeatedly this year was companies continuing to do things the same way, ultimately getting the same results.

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Q3 Venture Investments For SoCal Total Around $1.0 Billion

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Q3 has traditionally been a slower, venture funding quarter in Southern California, due to summer vacations and a slower work schedule for both high tech companies and venture firms during the summer months. The largest deal in the quarter was for Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.

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Does a VCs Culture Really Matter? The Upfront Story

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.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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Interview with Aaron Hirschorn, DogVacay.com

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The company--which was founded by husband and wife team Aaron Hirschorn and Karine Nissim Hirschorn --is the latest company to come out of Science, Inc., We spoke to Aaron about the company. If you need a 12 acre ranch in Malibu for your Great Dane, with an animal trainer on staff, that's $75.00.

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Interview with Aaron Hirschhorn, DogVacay.com

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The company--which was founded by husband and wife team Aaron Hirschhorn and Karine Nissim Hirschhorn--is the latest company to come out of Science, Inc., We spoke to Aaron about the company. If you need a 12 acre ranch in Malibu for your Great Dane, with an animal trainer on staff, that's $75.00.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

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Interview with Rob Farrow, Chi.mp

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This is really about liberating your identity and making it yours, rather than having it be a subset of a company or sit inside another company. At some point, you've got to figure out where you draw the line, due to social network fatigue when you're at the point where you are checking 8, 9, or ten different sites every day.