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bloblive West LA- Open Mic Night for Ideas and Entrepreneurs

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 -- bloblive LA - Open Mic Night for Entrepreneurs. Bloblives are a weekly, city-wide series of "open mic nights for ideas" where entrepreneurs of many stripes share ideas and support each other in a fun and relaxed environment. See [link] (more).

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LA Startup Report 2013 | A Rising Forecast

Tech Zulu Event

Los Angeles has a diverse area of startups. Be Great recognizes seven main startup points in Los Angeles: “Silicon Beach”, West LA, Culver City, Pasadena, Orange County, South Bay, and Downtown LA. Unlike Los Angeles, other global startup communities have a centralized area for startups.

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As fashion has its metaverse moment, one app looks to bridge real and virtual worlds for sneakerheads

TechCrunch LA

One entrepreneur who’s spent time on both sides of the business as a startup founder and an employee for one of the biggest brands in athletic wear has launched a new app to try build a bridge between the physical and virtual fashion worlds. .

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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

socalTECH

Those programs--epitomized by YCombinator in the Bay Area, and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado--attract newly minted entrepreneurs with a mixture of cash and mentoring, and a program which rapidly takes ideas and turns them into viable, executing businesses. Typically, venture backed companies, always entrepreneur led.

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Interview with Josh Resnick, ntro

socalTECH

Josh Resnick is a serial entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of nProgress , the company behind ntro. What's the idea behind the ntro? I actually had the idea sitting around with my partner around three to four years ago, but we were both pretty focused on our videogame careers at the time.

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How Eusoh Wants To Fix Insurance With Technology, With Allen Kamrava

socalTECH

The idea of Eusoh, is we are still collecting from the crowd, but because of technology, we no longer have to keep those funds captive. I worked in the medical field for the Kaiser HMO, and had my own surgical practice in the uber-competitive West Los Angeles market. We collect for the cost only when things happen.

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Interview with Nick Warnock, Atiz

socalTECH

Talk more about the Apprentice and how you ended up on the show, and how that experience was--it seems we often run into entrepreneurs who have been on the show. I was selling door to door and making phone calls, with a real good niche there in West LA. From there, I tried to sell a copier to the executive producer of Survivor.

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