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

Both Sides of the Table

Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words.

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5 Companies That Could Become The Next Apple

YoungUpstarts

The Skyworks Solutions growth is largely due to its key involvement in IoT, payments on mobile devices, and Internet connectivity. This growth comes in spite of a string of declining net sales from the fiscal period of 2011 (40.6 percent in net sales has been observed over the first nine months of 2015. percent) to 2014 (21.9

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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

At one point in the process, I was down to under $100,000 in the bank – with the vast majority of our net worth tied up in these angel investments and a house that we bought in Boulder. Charley was a partner at a firm called VIMAC and was looking at some Internet stuff. Do you want to help out?”

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9 Unexpected Ways a Lawyer Can Help Your Startup

Up and Running

We all know it’s better to seek good advice and have a safety net before you need it. Oftentimes, early-stage companies think they can grab funding documents off the Internet without a lawyer. Unfortunately, many entrepreneurs end up learning that lesson the hard way. Term Sheets. This is a surefire way to screw something up.

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Oppose HB 1192 – The “Software Tax”

VC Adventure

He said that people who download “standard” software (like TurboTax) from the internet should pay sales taxes, just like someone who buys TurboTax in a box at BestBuy. The purpose of this email is to clarify some facts, because this is an extremely confusing issue. As an aside, I have lots of other objections. Citrix Presentation Server 4.0,

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How Techstars Affirms Today’s Top Technological Trends

ReadWriteStart

Techstars has become a power player in places like Boston, Boulder and Seattle: The program, known as a startup accelerator, takes entrepreneurs and offers them office space, funding and advice, taking a stake in the companies in exchange. ” —FCC chairman Tom Wheeler on net neutrality regulation.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

The “Infrastructure Phase” of the Internet … Before we had an Internet startup explosion we needed infrastructure which spawned the original tech startup community in Silicon Valley. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built.