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Snapchat Reports Hundreds Of Subpoenas, No National Security Requests

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Venice-based instant messaging service Snapchat released its first transparency report , detailing all of the legal and government demands for information from its systems, showing that the company fielded more then 375 U.S. snapchat subpoena transparency report information legal request' READ MORE>>.

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

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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. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. He built & IPOd Demand Media. acquired Overture for $1.63 Yes, Google won.

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

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We''re proud to announce the Socaltech 50 , our list of the 50, up-and-coming people in Southern California''s technology ecosystem. Evan Spiegel , SnapChat (Los Angeles, mobile app). Rob Reed , MomentFeed (Los Angeles/Ventura, analytics). Ophir Tanz , GumGum (Los Angeles, advertising). Sam Teller ,LaunchpadLA (Los Angeles, incubator).

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Render Media: Creating A Digital Publisher In The Social Age

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He was a co-founder of Applied Semantics, which started the AdSense technology, which they sold to Google in 2003. We've since expanded to Instagram and Vine, and it's Snapchat and Youtube next. Demand Media made a business out of that. How did you pull that all together? We came together in 2008, to focus on digital content.

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8 Key Ingredients to a Profitable Consulting Business

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Most of the guidance you see for entrepreneurs is aimed at those who are selling a product (Apple, Tesla, Xiaomi), or selling a service (Uber, Airbnb, Snapchat). Announcing that you are a consultant, and hoping demand will set your focus, is not a good strategy. Shape your business by design, not by default.

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MakerSquare Wants to Teach You to Become a Developer in Weeks

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With the growing need for Software Engineers at technology, entertainment and media companies in the Los Angeles area, Hack Reactor, which has three founders who are University of Southern California graduates, identified fertile ground for MakerSquare to educate, train and mentor technologists in Southern California. “Los

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

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The topic of the conference was “The Sharing Economy” and as I read many of the session title descriptions I realized that people would be talking more about “collaborative consumption” (think airbnb, taskrabbit, uber) than about why people are sharing more on Instragram & Snapchat. It is open and empowering.

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