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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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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. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. You can hear many other amazing stories in this 1:1 interview ).

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

Tech Zulu Event

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. . Essayist, programmer, and programming language designer. Bambi Francisco. gigaom.com. . Paul Grahm.