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

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billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Chris Dixon , September 12, 2010 My most useful career experience was about eight years ago when I was trying to break into the world of VC-backed startups. I applied to hundreds of jobs: low-level VC roles, startups jobs, even to big tech companies. I got rejected from every single one. Some have made the model work. Yes we can!

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

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All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. 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. Overture (Goto.com).