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

Jason Nazar

He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away. Challenge #2 – There is Not Enough Great Tech, Product and UI/UX Design Talent in LA. Simply put LA has a lack of GREAT product, UI/UX, and design talent.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Codeita lets you design, code, and publish all from a cloud-based LAMP development environment. Mark founded Launchpad LA, a program designed to help mentor LA’s most promising first-time startup CEO’s. Jason Calacanis – Mahalo Jason Calacanis was CEO and co-founder of Weblogs, Inc., He blogs here and tweets here.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

Both Sides of the Table

We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). We had an excellent opening panel on early-stage investing with Dave McClure (Founders Fund – NorCal), Brad Feld (Foundry Group, Boulder) and Andy Sack (Founders Co-Op, Seattle). We have accomplished much yet have much work to do.

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Interview with Jason Kiesel and Kurt Daradics, FreedomSpeaks

socalTECH

I started designing web sites, at a rudimentary level, right out of college, in 1997. We met first through Tyler Crowley at Mahalo, and I invited Jason to speak at MOTM. You did find some angel funding, didn't you? Kurt Daradics: Yes, we have some funding from Dale Okuno, who is the CEO of EzData. He is a friend of mine.

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