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

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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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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

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Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. At that time, monetizing by advertising didn't exist, and web developers were having to hand roll those experiences. Robert Flynn: Yes.

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I Just Invested in @Burstly, a Mobile Ad Management Company

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The first big wave of this change came from the introduction of the iPhone, which was the first well built mobile device for using the web. It broke the hegemony that the carriers had over software on mobile phones and the industry will forever be changed (for the better) for this. And this part of the product is entirely free to use.

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Interview with Tim Cadogan, OpenX

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We help web publishers make more money out of advertising. One, is we give them software--known as an ad server--which helps them manage different ad streams they have. The software helps them manage all of that, so that they can target campaigns, optimize ads, and report out in different ways. We do that in basically two ways.

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