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Lyfe Mobile | Augmented Reality Ad Network With Real-Time Bidding

Tech Zulu Event

Lyfe Mobile is a new Southern California startup that combines augmented reality (AR) with traditional ad networks and real-time bidding (RTB) to offer advertisers and brands a unique opportunity to engage customers in an exciting new way. They funded their new company with their own money and started some serious ad testing.

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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

From the article: Mithril had its best moment yet last week when a portfolio company, Auris Health, sold to Johnson & Johnson for more than $3 billion — returning at least $500 million to the fund. South California is also seeing declining seed investment. All appears well. billion it has already coughed up. Obsessions.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

It needs to be funded to be successful. It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

It needs to be funded to be successful. It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented.

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Science37: Using Technology To Enable Remote, Clinical Trials, with Belinda Tan

socalTECH

The company is backed by more than $67M in funding from such investors as Glynn Capital Management, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Amgen Ventures, Lux Capital, Redmile Group, dRx Capital (a Qualcomm and Novartis joint investment company), and Sanofi Ventures. Los Angeles-based Science37 (www.science37.com)

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What’s the Real Deal with AngelList?

Both Sides of the Table

I hope I straddled people’s points of view well enough not to have offended anybody while adding a framework for how I think about the service. An investor called the founder, spoke for 30 minutes on the phone and committed to funding having never met the team. Most VCs fund companies with a degree of traction.

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Develop.la | L.A.’s Own Hacker News and Why Now?

Tech Zulu Event

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing engineer and PageWoo ’s CEO and co-Founder Jason Crilly about his side project, the new hacker news site for the Southern California tech community called Develop.la. The framework in L.A. Technology companies get funded here without the investors knowing too much.

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