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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

socalTECH

Josh Brooks , OnTheRunTech.com dba Post Cards On The Run (Los Angeles, mobile apps). Sean Callahan , SlimSurveys (San Diego, mobile apps). Greg Cohn , Burner (Los Angeles, mobile app). Sam Friedman , ParkMe (Santa Monica, mobile apps). Melani Gordon , Taphunter (San Diego, mobile apps).

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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments

TechCrunch LA

The group occupies some familiar spaces for past investments, with a focus on niche social communities, mobile media tools and augmented reality. Earlier Yellow bets skewed more toward content investments as Snapchat was scaling Discover. Snap investment Hardworkers. Now Su says he’s fielding plenty of augmented reality pitches.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

Tech Zulu Event

Whether the end goal is a functional business app or a mobile-friendly website, philosophie’s modern, open-source approach to development is sure to get the job done. Incubator: Amplify LA. Social Media: Snapchat. philosophie has worked with some of the world’s biggest names: Google, Nissan, Nintendo, UCLA, and more.

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LA TECH SUMMIT Celebrates Los Angeles’s Phenomenal Growth

LATechDigest

Speakers included Mayor Eric Garcetti , Snapchat influencer Jake Paul (fresh off his 60 Minutes appearance), Loot Crate cofounder Chris Davis (whose company just topped the Inc 5000), and early Snapchat & Riot Games / SF-based investor Peter Lasky. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

Both Sides of the Table

Think of web vs. mobile. The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right. Traditional software vs. SaaS. SEO marketing vs. social marketing.