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Introducing Trust, and the Importance of Product-Founder Fit

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Digital advertising spend is projected to grow 25% this year to $191 billion, and Google (69%), Facebook (59%), Snapchat (116%) and Twitter (87%) all just reported rapid growth in their year over year advertising revenues. no surprise?—?that’s that’s where the customers are. For these companies, it looks like a rosy picture.

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Understanding What’s Going on in #LATech

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It’s not just Snapchat, although there’s that. See we have JPL that designed the rockets that put men on the moon in the first place and Caltech, one of the two most prestigious engineering universities in the country. See in the end, in LA VC firms are far more collaborative than competitive. Don’t we know it. We love LA!

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Why Unicorns Are No Longer Enough. The Battle for Hendecorns

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But what if we could make those photos disappear like SnapChat? That tested well, but it seems the press liked SnapChat better. They designed a device that you could strap to your head and help you remove bad thoughts & experiences. We started by beta testing ephemeral photos. And then the team cracked it.

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PogoTec Launches The PogoCam, A Camera For Your Glasses

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Newport Beach-based PogoTec said today that it has launched its first product, the PogoCam , a miniature camera designed to attach to any pair of glasses. The new device appears to be directly competitive to Venice-based Snap's own camera sunglasses. The new device costs $149.00.

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Viddy Rebrands to Supernova | Starts Building More Than Video Apps

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The short video app builder was facing competition from the likes of Twitter’s Vine and Facebook’s Instagram video and MixBit. And after six months of insane design, coding and development, we have several new products to share with the world.” So, we set our sights further and began reimaging what’s possible.

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The Coming Shift in Enterprise Software

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For six years before that he was at Siebel who was the market leader in CRM before Salesforce, and he has both a masters in product design from Stanford and an MBA. The best designed mobile apps use the accelerometer, the camera, map integration, location, contact book integration, QR codes and so on. Think about Snapchat.

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Digest 5/16-22: Raises for PatientPop, SpacesVR; Disney VR, Littlstar, Vntana

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Philosophy & Design. SNAPCHAT Preparing Its Own Algo ( link ). SNAPCHAT to Redesign Discover Channel in June ( link ). NFTE Hosted Their Annual Entrepreneur Competition. Biz E-Sports Summit (-5/24). Tuesday May 24. FastCo Counter-Conf (-5/25). Space Tech Expo (-5/26). Now Next Why. Animation Workshop. Hack for LA.