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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I told her that I believed America’s best asset – driven initially from software innovation mindset in the San Francisco Bay Area and media innovation driven from Los Angeles – was our willingness to accept failure. We checked patents. Are we right in all of our assumptions and diligence? We checked safety.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

SoCal Delicious

Adam Miller transformed his company into one of the world’s leading software-as-a-service companies, specifically in the HR world. Gross started off selling candy bars in middle school, stepped up to selling solar power engine sets during the energy crisis of the 70s, and then moved into the software business when just out of Cal Tech.