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

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If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. LA By The Numbers. acquired Overture for $1.63

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How Halla Is Using AI To Personalize Food, With Spencer Price

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For this morning's interview, we spoke with Los Angeles-based Halla , a venture backed startup, focused on personalized recommendations for the food ordering industry. We all went to Oakwood High School, in North Hollywood in Los Angeles. The company has raised $1.9M in seed funding, from E&A Venture Capital and SOSV.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Competitor: Slide. Online DSP (demand-side platform) and ad exchange for display advertisers. -Metrics: 2.5mm members, 1,000 brands, 2,500 sale events to-date. Total raised: $129.0mm. InviteMedia (acquired by Google).

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Interview with Asher Hunt, Overnight

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If so, Los Angeles-based Overnight (www.joinovernight.com) is for you. Another impetus for this was I saw some of the slides that Mary Meeker had done in the Kleiner Perkins annual PDF that they send around, and I realized that the market was being underserved by Airbnb and other key players in the market. READ MORE>>.

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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010

SoCal CTO

Creating Incremental Strategic Value - Ask the Angels , June 17, 2010 We can easily overlook the level of demand pull when we are assessing strategic value. Personally, I don't like weighty board packs and I do not wish to inflict slide preparation upon anyone. gave him my favorite, "keep it to six slides."

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

I was on the way back to LA from a ski vacation in Switzerland where I decided while sliding down a glacier that if I survived I would start my own advertising agency. Again, maybe a blog post. :) What do you think of the concepts of visible networking and online business networking in Los Angeles ?

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