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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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Steve Poizner: The Alliance is a new nonprofit, whose mission it is to bring together a lot of the amazing, unique assets of Southern California. We are devoted to the mission of supercharging Southern California's technology ecosystem, and help it emerge as a world class technology hub by 2025.

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Reflections on 2020: Andy Wilson, Alliance for SoCal Innovation

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Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, sposors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. Today, we have Andy Wilson, Executive Director of the Alliance for SoCal Innovation (www.alliancesocal.org). We've been posting these throughout the next two weeks.

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Southern California Sees Boom In Venture Investments In Q4

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That's definitely not the case in Southern California, which saw a massive, $1.3 Southern California bucked the national trend, where venture investing dollars were down 32 percent in Q4 compared with Q3. Think there is a technology investment slowdown? billion invested in Q4 matched the $1.3 in San Diego.

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Sponsored Message: Find High Tech Law Firms In Southern California

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Need to find a top legal company in Southern California? socalTECH has the definitive listing of the companies who are providing legal services to local startups and high tech companies in our high tech service provider directory.

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Startup Opportunities in SoCal

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On Ben Kuo's blog, he posted about Entrepreneurs in Southern California and pointed to a post by Will Johnson, a Southern California entrepreneur and blogger. b) history of success; and c) abundance of start-up companies (so if one fails there is another to jump on). There are definitely lots of events going on.

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

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That''s true of many Southern California ad-tech companies. That pace has definitely slowed down a little bit. What do you think will take Southern California''s technology community to the next level? The problem is diseconomy of scale. Their only option is an IPO. There are just not buyers out there.

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What Mistakes Do VCs Make When Fundraising?

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We invest 40% of our dollars in Southern California firms?—?and and even though by definition that means the majority of our dollars are invested outside the area, that still makes us meaningfully different from the ten other Sand Hill Road funds this LP might be speaking with. For Upfront, it’s about Los Angeles.

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