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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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Steve Poizner: The Alliance is a new nonprofit, whose mission it is to bring together a lot of the amazing, unique assets of Southern California. We are devoted to the mission of supercharging Southern California's technology ecosystem, and help it emerge as a world class technology hub by 2025.

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Southern California's Top 10 Most Popular Tech Stories Of The Year

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What was Southern California's technology community most interested in 2012? end-of-the-year coverage, we've run through our web statistics and figured out which were the. venture capital exits in. 2011, showing a reduced number of exits--but more IPOs--in venture backed companies. As part of our.

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Southern California Sees $1.9 Billion In Q1 Deals, Biggest Since Dot Com Boom

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Southern California saw a staggering $1.9 billion in investments in Q1 of 2015, according to the latest numbers from the PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association. New England was right behind Southern California, with $1.4 billion in venture capital was invested for the quarter.

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Los Angeles investors and entrepreneurs launch PledgeLA, a diversity and inclusion program

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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem. The local non-profit was instrumental in setting up the PledgeLA initiative, which grew out of discussions that the institute fostered among the Los Angeles venture community. The landmark. This commitment from L.A.’s

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Insights and Opinions: How To Survive A Layoff

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The stock market is showing progress these past few weeks, local start-ups are beginning to see an increase in VC funding and SoCal technology firms are hiring. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 4.4 Yet, we are not out of the woods.

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Study: $48 Billion In Value Created Over 15 Years In SoCal IT VC-Backed Firms

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A new study of the financial outcomes for Southern California venture-backed companies in the IT sector finds that approximately $48 billion in value has been created by those companies over the period 1995-2009. Funk then focused the analysis on the 731 documented exits for the period 1995-2009.

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Streamlining The Sports Recruiting Process with FieldLevel

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They were very small shcools--he went to Cate, which is inland from Ventura in the Santa Barbara area, and I went to The Thacher School, and we both ended up at the University of Southern California. Form there, we got interest from incubators, angel investors, and venture capital. It''s a big topic.

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