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Understanding What’s Going on in #LATech

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See we have JPL that designed the rockets that put men on the moon in the first place and Caltech, one of the two most prestigious engineering universities in the country. I wrote this overview of the LA Tech Ecosystem in December and on page 15 you’ll see a host of amazing VC firms at all stages from pre-seed through to early-B rounds.

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Jared Leto, Scooter Braun and Troy Carter are backing Moment House, a startup recreating live events… digitally

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million in seed funding. Kevin Mayer, the former chief executive of TikTok; GV chief David Krane; Aaron Levie from Box; the tech media and entertainment guru, Matthew Ball; and product maestro Eugene Wei all participated in the round as well.

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Tapiture Taps Into Successful Social eCommerce And Secures $2.25M In Seed Funding

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million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. If Pinterest is catnip for girls, Tapiture was founded to go after the men, but quickly evolved into a more sophisticated artistic social media community. Ellis describes himself as a lifelong product guy, and lover of design and photography. I am drawn to it.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

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Amplify’s close mentoring is by design. Amplify’s portfolio companies are schooled on every challenge they need to master in order to achieve success. And they do all this in the span of four intense months. Amplify Mentor Panel in full swing. That is not to say the Partners are breathing down their neck.

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Interview with Artin Nazarian, MySocialNightLife

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based MySocialNightLife.com (www.mysocialnightlife.com) announced a seed funding round, and its technology platform for the nightclub and bar industry. In addition, we though we'd connect this to social media, as a forward-facing view for customers. What are you doing with your seed funding?

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How to Out Amazon, Amazon

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This is true whether it’s physical products or media products. Think about the tension between media companies and cable operators like last year when Viacom threatened to pull Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, MTV, BET, etc. and a differentiated feel in terms of fabric, design, sustainability, etc. from Charter’s subscribers.

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

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I’m generally not a believer in too much PR until you have a product built or at least well designed. This is somewhat changing in the world of crowd funding where people actually raise money so that they can build products but at a minimum your product design ought to be complete and ready to execute. I have no money?

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