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Insights: VCs Planting the Seeds for a Cleantech Bumper Crop in L.A.

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John Paglia , an associate professor of finance and senior researcher of the Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project. The city is also home to more than 1,100 startup companies -- the type of companies with the potential for high-growth and strong return on investment. READ MORE>>.

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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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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

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VentureNet – Great annual event by the Technology Council. In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. They put on great events. CalTech MIT Enterprise Forum – Great events on various topics – there's one this Saturday that would be great to go to.

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Out of the Lab

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While having a thorough understanding of their breakthroughs in technology or science it is the routine acts of fund raising, hiring resources and managing for results rather than publications that make taking research out of the lab and into a start-up a special case. See [link] (more).

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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 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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Jason Lawrence Nazar

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Jason Lawrence Nazar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Docstoc (Acquired by INTUIT), the premier online destination to start, grow and manage small businesses. Before starting Docstoc, he was a partner in a venture consulting firm in Los Angeles where he worked with dozens of startups.