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LA Startup Report 2013 | A Rising Forecast

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The numbers are promising and even with some problems arising in LA’s startup community, LA has found ways to keep pushing through. Los Angeles has a diverse area of startups. The wide range of startups is great and creates more opportunities for new talent and entrepreneurs to join the Los Angeles area.

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As fashion has its metaverse moment, one app looks to bridge real and virtual worlds for sneakerheads

TechCrunch LA

” From that perspective, the Aglet app is more of a Trojan Horse for the big idea that Mullins wants to pursue. ” The YouTube example comes from the starmaking power the platform has enabled for everyone from makeup artists to musicians like Justin Bieber, who was discovered on the social media streaming service.

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How Eusoh Wants To Fix Insurance With Technology, With Allen Kamrava

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Insurance companies collect money from everybody to provide their service. The idea of Eusoh, is we are still collecting from the crowd, but because of technology, we no longer have to keep those funds captive. The system runs checks to make sure the service providers and high quality, and which ones we have to audit.

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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

socalTECH

Those programs--epitomized by YCombinator in the Bay Area, and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado--attract newly minted entrepreneurs with a mixture of cash and mentoring, and a program which rapidly takes ideas and turns them into viable, executing businesses. I moved to the Santa Monica office of Microsoft Consulting Service.

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Interview with Josh Resnick, ntro

socalTECH

What's the idea behind the ntro? I actually had the idea sitting around with my partner around three to four years ago, but we were both pretty focused on our videogame careers at the time. We need lots of people in this service, who are able to connect on those long tail, unique interests.

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Interview with Nick Warnock, Atiz

socalTECH

Our customers are academic libraries, service bureaus, and anyone else who wants to digitize a bound book, without destroying the bindings. Why would someone buy your hardware, rather than perhaps working with a service bureau? Nick Warnock: We haven't even scratched the service. We're different than what else is out there.

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