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Millions of Americans Still Don’t Have Access to Broadband Internet: BroadbandNow

StartUp Beat

Broadband access in the US has come under both scrutiny and criticism recently with a lack of competition being blamed for sub-par services. Rural US has been at the heart of the discussion, but cities aren’t doing much better with nearly two thirds of the population of Los Angeles living in an area with only one provider.

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Interview with Simon Anderson, DreamHost

socalTECH

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Simon Anderson: There''s a lot of competition in the market, undoubtedly. So, for us, competition is good.

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Joey Flores On Earbits' Life, Death, and Resurrection

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That's the fascinating story behind Los Angeles-based Earbits (www.earbits.com), which offers up a mobile music streaming service focused on discovering both new and talent. understand you actually had shutdown the service, and that the company was essentially at the brink of death? Joey, thanks for the time today.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch LA

” Much of this will look and feel like a Green New Deal, but sold under a package of infrastructure modernization and service upgrades that the country desperately needs. . The vast majority of those are nowhere up to modern codes. What excites me about this space is that there’s so much low-hanging fruit.

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Reflections on 2019: Kelly Perdew, Moonshots Capital

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What new technology area, startup, service, or app did you find most interesting or useful this year, and why? Due to this, seed rounds have become more competitive, with more expensive valuations and more oversubscribed rounds. Seed activity last quarter continued to trend upward, with 28 companies raising $68M of funding.

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Interview with Scot Lawrie and John Rhodes, Coverfly

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For our interview this morning, we caught up with Scot Lawrie , the President and technical Co-founder of Los Angeles-based Coverfly (www.coverfly.com), and John Rhodes , Coverfly's head of Marketing and Business Development, to learn a bit more about the early stage, bootstrapped startup focused on Hollywood script writers.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

He came to work in our offices at Upfront Ventures as an EIR and immediately began building software to improve how storage was picked up, photographed, scanned and routed to a warehouse. How profitable is my product or service? What sized team can I afford in order to sell, market & provide service to these customers?

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