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How to Avoid Being Disrupted as a VC

Both Sides of the Table

Invest more heavily in platform services. Move our offices to Santa Monica so we could be closer to the early-stage companies being created in LA. I created an accelerator & mentor network (Launchpad LA). Build out our junior staff including pulling through some younger professionals into the investment ranks.

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How Amavitae Wants To Help Youth Find A Career They'll Love

socalTECH

Deborah Ramo: Amavitae, which means "love life" in Latin, is a mobile-first platform to help the emerging workforce find a career that they will love and have a natural aptitude for, and to help them understand what careers are growing and will be around in the future. So how does a user use the platform? What is your app all about?

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

Tech Zulu Event

Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S.

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upStart.LA Breakdown | Accelerators and Incubators: An Entrepreneur’s Point of View

Tech Zulu Event

Courtesy of upStart.LA , our very own local accelerator based out of Santa Monica, we were able to get some of these questions answered by some very real people. Joey Flores , founder of Earbits (a Y Combinator company), a music-related marketing platform with interactive radio experiences. co-founder, Dan Dato.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

Tech Zulu Event

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Individual clips will be posted soon. Community Sponsors.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

Tech Zulu Event

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Individual clips will be posted soon. Community Sponsors.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. We are creating a platform that enables users to play instant games and apps directly on the computer desktop. What are you working on now?

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