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

Both Sides of the Table

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. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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He invented the category of sponsored search. He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. Users would know exactly how much was paid for each click. Overture (Goto.com).

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Some of the traffic-tactics we use involve good old fashioned payola: paid search, banner ads, affiliate programs, etc. ", they are aimed at convincing companies to use open source software. That crazy chicken. Burger King’s brave new world. Yes we can! " Sponsor.

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