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Insights: VCs Planting the Seeds for a Cleantech Bumper Crop in L.A.

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John Paglia , an associate professor of finance and senior researcher of the Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project. The city is also home to more than 1,100 startup companies -- the type of companies with the potential for high-growth and strong return on investment. READ MORE>>.

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

I recently got together with Aaron Shechet and an early stage startup to discuss the direction the company might want to take. I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. While at UC Santa Barbara, I started a café which served over 1100 dorm residents.

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Entrepreneur's Journey

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The Entrepreneurs Journey: Finding, Launching and Growing the Next Big Thing takes participants on a guided tour from developing the creative idea for a new business to delivering a high market value start-up.

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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

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In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. Quality of Events Of course, the bigger issue with events is finding the ones where you will have a really good opportunity to network with interesting people.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA? 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.

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Interview with Ricardo Solar, LetSimonDecide.com

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We caught up with Ricardo Solar, the firm's CEO, to learn more about the site. Eventually, once we have a larger database, we want to start using that to feed into other decisions. What's your background, and why did you start the site? What's the idea behind LetSimonDecide? You can also email and save those decisions.

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