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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. 5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. For anyone from California, you know there are vast differences between the northern and southern parts of the state – so vast in fact that, to us, they could just as easily stand alone as two separate states.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

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Atlas Powered has raised $700k from Tech Coast Angels, Maverick Angels, Pasadena Angels, Angel Capital Entrepreneur Fund, LaunchpadLA, and Clark Landry. Last year Forbes ranked Launchpad LA the top Southern California incubator, and Seed-DB has shown Launchpad LA companies have historically done well.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

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I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). So you can become friends with these people just like NORMAL people and, don’t worry, you’re not going to get a bill for having a beer with them.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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Southern California has had its share of new startup accelerators launch in the last few months, however, few people here have actually experienced an accelerator firsthand. The other reason for building it, is LA is crapped on all the time from a press perspective and entrepreneur perspective.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. So I asked her this: “What do I do with my 1,000th post?”. Wannabe entrepreneur symptoms and cures - Gabriel Weinberg , July 25, 2010 I was once a wannabe entrepreneur. and tips for buyers looking for logo design.

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