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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

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Our marketplace is organized like a used item marketplace, like Amazon or eBay, or Craiglist, in that a seller lists an item, picks a cause, and sets a price. We were invited in March to the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference to present. James Chung: My previous background is in software engineering.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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LA has the annual Monty Conference. Or the huge dividends that Santa Barbara got from building GoToMeeting that sold for a nice price to Citrix. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. I’ve seen it work in Boulder with DeFrag and Gluecon.

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

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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. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. ”).

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

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Asterisk was not build with scalability in mind, and it was built by software engineers who don't know telecom. One of the other things we do very well, and where we have engineering expertise, is we provide one-off, interactive IVR solutions for media companies in the Los Angeles Area.

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