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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

TechCrunch LA

The group occupies some familiar spaces for past investments, with a focus on niche social communities, mobile media tools and augmented reality. Snap investment Hardworkers. Mogul Millennial : a media startup sharing professional resources for Black entrepreneurs. Yellow investment SketchAR.

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Why an Atlanta-based Black influencer collective swapped their collab house for a studio

TechCrunch LA

A few minutes away from downtown Atlanta, Collab Studio ATL describes itself as “a tech-based one-stop shop for content creators, HBCU students and young entrepreneurs to achieve their business goals.” A post shared by Collab Studios (@collabstudiosatl). Image Credits: Robiiiworld (Brandy Merriweather via BStarPR). .

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

socalTECH

Sam Teller ,LaunchpadLA (Los Angeles, incubator). Evan Spiegel , SnapChat (Los Angeles, mobile app). Ashish Soni , USC (Los Angeles, incubator/university). Internap , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Demand Media , Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , Oracle , Cresa Partners , UK Trade & Investment , PIXT , and many others.

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Be Great Fest | Celebrating Los Angeles’ Startup Ecosystem

Tech Zulu Event

17, entrepreneurs, investors, civic leaders and other key players in the tech industry will gather at the historic Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, Calif. startups attracting over $847 million in investment funds in 2012 alone, the city’s diverse resources are often too separated. 3 startup ecosystem in the world, with L.A.

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How ZEFR Is Helping Hollywood And Brands Understand YouTube

socalTECH

But, what that really did, is it allowed us to use that network to incubate the software we are building now for YouTube. Zach Games: Rich and I were trying to build a big software company here in LA, and in order to that, you need people who are invested in the ecosystem. Plus, they''ve invested in Los Angeles.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

Both Sides of the Table

The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right. Fred Wilson wrote perfectly about sticking with struggling investments. FourSquare.