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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

But we’re certainly focused in an enormous market that’s relatively less competitive than the Bay Area and is producing big winners including Snap, Tinder, Riot Games, SpaceX, GoodRx, Ring, GOAT, Apeel Sciences (Santa Barbara), Scopely, ZipRecruiter, Parachute Home, Service Titan?—?just there are many other great firms here.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

SoCal Delicious

Brandon Beck – Riot Games. StarCraft 2 might be the most played eSport currently, but Riot Games’ “League of Legends” is garnering prize pools in the millions. They raised some money, stole some guys from Blizzard, and released the game for free. Here are 10 people I think will be leading the charge.

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Veteran LA law firm opens a Silicon Beach office and launches a pro-bono “Precelerator”

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billion in 2005, and also currently represents Rdio, Beats Electronics, Riot Games, Ad.ly, Redpoint Ventures, and several other prominent private and publicly traded clients. The firm made a name for itself representing Skype from formation in 2003 through its ultimate sale to eBay for $2.6

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

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As an undergradudate, Leila authored background papers for the World Bank's Development Research Group and Ashoka on equity and social rights. Rick has led and sits on the board of 4 FirstMark portfolio companies, including Clickable, Weplay, Live Gamer and Riot Games. . . Dave McClure. . Twiistup 007 Showoff's: .