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Backed by LG, AmazeVR is hoping to resurrect virtual reality’s consumer dreams

TechCrunch LA

At the same time, networking companies are spending billions to roll out new, high speed data networks and they need new data-hungry features (like virtual reality) to make a compelling case for consumers to upgrade to the newer, more expensive networking plans. The company was formed and financed with $6.3

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Interview with Brian McKelvey, Worlize

socalTECH

Brian McKelvey: We're building a virtual world, which attaches to Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and all the social networks. It's built on a gaming platform, and is a way for users to create their own content and portions of that world. How did the firm come about? What's your background?

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

InfoChachkie

Could we really build a generalize platform and assemble the data in a cost effective way? This might sound a bit off, but I actually thought the movie “The Social Network,” did a phenomenal job at depicting the essence a startup. We’re also looking at how we could extend our platform into other areas.

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Interview: Kevin O’Connor of FindTheBest

InfoChachkie

Could we really build a generalize platform and assemble the data in a cost effective way? This might sound a bit off, but I actually thought the movie “The Social Network” did a phenomenal job at depicting the essence a startup. We’re also looking at how we could extend our platform into other areas.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. In particular, CallFire has answered unusually strong demand coming from political campaigns, the insurance sector and emergency notification.

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

Both Sides of the Table

I grew up a computer programmer, a builder of computer networks and fascinated with infrastructure so in many ways I felt like I existed at the inception of many of these great technologies. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. We see improvements in wireless transmission and in real-time programming languages.

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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

socalTECH

James Chung: My previous background is in software engineering. I spent six years in e-commerce, developing e-commerce platforms, and am pretty familiar with that. The site looks to be very well executed, where did you get the technology expertise to pull off the site?

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