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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

socalTECH

Docstoc, Ken Rutkowski of MeTAL, Mark Suster of Upfront, Jason Calacanis of Mahalo--but we had to pass them up, too, in favor of some of the new folks to the scene. Daryl Bernstein , RightSignature (Santa Barbara, software). James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising).

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The Challenges (& Opportunities) of Starting a Tech Company in LA

Jason Nazar

Challenge #3 – There Needs to Be More Institutional Capital in Los Angeles. There simply are NOT enough venture capital firms in the Southern California. If there were more great companies coming out of LA then it would create more demand for high quality VC firms. It’s a chicken and egg problem.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. Jason Calacanis – Mahalo Jason Calacanis was CEO and co-founder of Weblogs, Inc.,

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