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This is the Dumbest Op Ed I’ve Read in a While

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I don’t feel like canceling LinkedIn just because occasionally a well-meaning but slightly not-clued-in person from a faraway place wants me to be their personal mentor, answer 3-questions for their high-school entrepreneurship project or take a sales pitch for their recruiting services. I get a lot of those, too. I’m not an elitist a **e.

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

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billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. And of course we have great public companies that have spanned content & communications like J2 Global whose market cap as of this writing is a cool $2.5

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From Nothing to Something with Howard Marks & Nanxi Liu

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As a young entrepreneur, you get introduced to mentors and successful entrepreneurs on a daily basis who want to help you. Then, I’m doing emails, accounting, HR, writing proposals, interviewing potential hires, and other random tasks until noon. I am not surprised that Snapchat is LA based.

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