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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

TechCrunch LA

Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.

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Putting Tom Perkins Comments into Context

Both Sides of the Table

We have outrage over the rising real-estate prices which these “techno geeks” can pay. I had a public education all the way through college and my under grad – UCSD – actually cost less than $2,000 per year to attend between 1986-1991. I had a computer at my house when I was 12.

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Bio Roundup: RIP Roger Tsien, Novartis CAR-T Wheel, Zika News & More

Xconomy

As the San Diego Union Tribune reported in 2013, Tsien (pictured) was also unafraid to shine the spotlight on what he considered suspect scientific approaches, even when espoused by legends like DNA co-discoverer James Watson. He was a professor at UC San Diego.

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

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Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.