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Upfront Summit Delayed Due To COVID-19 Surge

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The Upfront Summit, the high tech and venture capital company run by Upfront Ventures, has been delayed, the latest victim of resurging COVID-19 numbers and the Omicron variant. Upfront's last tech conference, in 2020, was held at the Rose Bowl.

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Montgomery & Co. Exits Advisory Business

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the investment banking firm which got its start in Los Angeles focusing on high tech companies--and as a onetime venture capital investor--has exited the investment banking and advisory business, the firm said today. The company has been well known in recent years for its technology conferences in Santa Monica.

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Interview with Alex Schneider, Ventura Ventures Technology Center

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On Thursday, the City of Ventura is formally launching a new incubator, the Ventura Ventures Technology Center (www.v2tc.com), targeted at high tech businesses. It costs anywhere from $200 to $300 a month per workstation, which is full service gross, Internet, and shared equipment and conference rooms.

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Insights: Turning Soft on Social Entrepreneurship

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Maybe at the time I was thinking I had to get tougher with my investment decisions; I hadn't made any money investing in high-tech startups, how could I invest in a company focused on society's transportation challenges with an emphasis on bicycles, of all things?

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Interview with Matthew Jenusaitis, OCTANe

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However, our challenge is that there are not a lot of venture capital investors in Southern California. Let's talk a bit about VC in the OC, which is next week--what's the story there on your merger with the OCVG? VC in the OC is really the first product of that merger. Thanks for the time this morning.

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

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They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite?