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

Both Sides of the Table

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. Deflationary Economics now favors us. Stuff you may not know about LA? ”).

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Tech Diversity & Inclusion Allies at SXSW

Austin Startup

as a “17 Women to Watch in 2017,” by Entrepreneur Magazine as a 2016 “Woman to Watch,” and was selected to participate in the United Nations Foundation Global Accelerator. Women engineers make up only 14% of software engineers; she is dedicated to getting more women into the tech industry. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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Entrepreneur-Friendly Policies (Finally) Showing Promise - But Leadership Required

Seeing Both Sides

Yet, we make it very difficult for immigrant entrepreneurs to pursue their dreams and build their companies in America. In thinking through our investment choices, we should keep asking ourselves, if they had a massive shortage of software engineers, What Would China Do? Policies: Achieve Long-Term Success.