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VCs, celebrities, and athletes are writing a new LA story to bring women’s soccer to the city

TechCrunch LA

Now the two women are co-founders of Angel City, leading a gaggle of venture capital, sports, and celebrity investors, alongside Angel City co-founder and President Julie Uhrman, in bringing a National Women’s Soccer League team to Los Angeles by the Spring of 2022. “We’re venture capitalists.

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FundingPost Los Angeles VCs, Angels, Crypto and ICOs Event

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Wednesday, April 4, 2018 -- FundingPost Los Angeles VCs, Angels, Crypto and ICOs Event. At our next event the panel of investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing and a fireside chat about ICO basics: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check!

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Lee Schneider: How Los Angeles Became A Startup Town

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Lee Schneider is the author of a new book, Chronicle of a Startup Town: Los Angeles , which delves into the people and reasons on why Los Angeles has become one of the epicenters of the startup and technology industry. Why did you decide to write the book? There's an amazing energy and focus going on here.

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Top LA investors discuss the city’s post-COVID-19 prospects

TechCrunch LA

When it comes to venture capital, Los Angeles is a city on the rise. While Los Angeles has a lot going for it, that also means it potentially has a lot to lose in the current economic downturn. As Mucker Capital co-founder Hsu writes, “There are far more great companies than there are venture dollars here in LA.

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Play the prologue of ‘Linda & Joan,’ a video game about the worst year of its creator’s life

TechCrunch LA

Quinn recalled returning to Los Angeles afterwards and “trying to unpack all of this trauma that had happened.” It sounds like the prologue is very different from the rest of the game, which will shift from sunny Los Angeles to “small houses in England.”

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Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles – Cliff Allen

SoCal CTO

I moved into writing software to analyze audience data, and wrote a lot of computer graphics software. I also write about holding events ( [link] ), and I’m writing a series about integrating marketing strategy with marketing tactics ( [link] ). Are you leveraging social media at all? Great stuff. Marketing 2.0

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The makers of the virtual influencer, Lil Miquela, snag real money from Silicon Valley

TechCrunch LA

Last week, the Los Angeles-based startup led by Trevor McFedries , outed itself as the collective consciousness behind the virtual celebrity Lil Miquela and her less well known contemporaries Blawko22 and BermudaisBae in a choreographed melodrama worthy of Los Angeles’ best reality television. It worked. .