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Interview with Rich Branning, Sweep

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We caught up with Rich to better understand the business, and why he thinks it's critical that companies like his step in to handle the labor intensive, logistics challenge that on-demand scooter companies have created for themselves. I'm originally from Palo Alto, but I graduated from Pepperdine in 2012. What is Sweep all about?

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How Google's Old Offices Are Becoming A Tech Hub, with ROC's Walter Grieves

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In a sign of the growth of the Silicon Beach technology world, last year, Google moved its headquarters out of a space on Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, and into a new fancy headquarters space in Venice. Walter Grieves: Our goal is to bring together universities, startups, and investors in one place. It's up to the community.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA? Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with.

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How Cloudvirga Wants To Disrupt The Slow, Antiquated Mortgage Industry

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Enter cloudvirga (www.cloudvirga.com), a new startup in Irvine�created by veterans of the mortgage industry�which is hoping to disrupt that antiquated process, by automating the entire process. We spoke with Kyle Kamrooz , co-founder and COO of the company, about what the startup is doing. Cloudvirga recently raised $7.5M

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