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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. Yes, Google won.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. There is a reason that companies like Google and Apple are notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to communicating their product strategy and roadmap.

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How TenOneTen Ventures Is Investing In LA's Technology Future

socalTECH

Both Waxman and Elbaz are serial entrepreneurs, with many successes under their belt (Elbaz with Applied Semantics, which he sold to Google, Waxman with such companies as Firefly Networks, SpotRunner, and PeoplePC). There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. We have a lot of world class universities here.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

Tech Zulu Event

philosophie has worked with some of the world’s biggest names: Google, Nissan, Nintendo, UCLA, and more. Abrams, Jim Wiatt, and Zach James have presented at Amplify’s Wednesday evening mentor events. From websites to apps, philosophie creates engaging and efficient digital experiences for many different industries.

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Zuma Ventures: Creating A New Technology Startup Model

socalTECH

If you look at just Caltech, UCLA, and USC, and you look at our population base, we''re pouring out more engineers than pretty much anywhere. You''d find one friend at Google, another at Facebook, you could sit together, iterate, and make it happen. The culture here is one that breeds the type of environment that creative people need.

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

Tech Zulu Event

He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S. Buying Google keywords will be popular and expensive. Though Tanz has accomplished much at a young age, he is humble and embedded in the local tech community as a mentor to other startups. from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

Tech Zulu Event

We also had awesome group of mentors that included: David Waxman (Co-founder of PeoplePC, Spot Runner and Firefly Network), Paige Craig (CEO of BetterWorks ), Josh MacAdam (Co-founder/CTO at Ming.ly Guests, visitors and teams mingled away enjoying appetizers and snacks along with this LASW’s 3rd keg. Rob Maigret. Scott Sangster.