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

Both Sides of the Table

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. It may surprise you to learn that LA graduates more engineers than anywhere else in the country. Where do all of these engineers end up?

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Startup Act 3.0: A New Hope For Immigrant Entrepreneurs?

ReadWriteStart

One of the company’s four employees, its software engineer, is not an American citizen. Also available is a new five-year visa for students studying STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, math), allowing an easier road to legal residency. To remain competitive, we need more engineers and scientists. start-up world.

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So you say you want to be a Product Manager …?

Austin Startup

A recent job posting by zlien , a construction industry software company, frames the product manager’s mindset this way: Do you find yourself staring at a complex world and identifying problems to engineer away? so that the talent, the designers, engineers, analysts and data scientists, can focus on their core work. What do they do?

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ConnectYard Integrates Social Media Into School Communications

YoungUpstarts

Our mission is to improve retention and graduation rates by transforming the way students learn and reaching them where they already spend time online.” ConnectYard solutions bridge the gap between students and the institutions that serve them,” says co-founder and CEO Donald Doane, who also founded web systems provider OpenDemand Systems.

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Why Mentoring is Essential to Your Business: Part Three

Up and Running

Recent surveys show the greatest demand for mentoring intervention falls under these five categories: Customer acquisition and retention. Let’s say we choose customer acquisition and retention. Let’s say we have identified the problem: “Customer retention is low. Building capacity. Managing risks. Social media.

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Common Growth Hacking Myths (and How Growth Actually Works)

ConversionXL

This means users love it, that there’s lots of retention and engagement, even at small numbers. October 2012 – Erin Turner and Gagan Biyani host the first Growth Hackers Conference in Menlo Park, California. An Epic List of 100 Growth Hacks for Startups by Search Engine Journal. via TechCrunch). …Really?

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

My fund – at $200 million – is the largest in Southern California. Look beyond California and you have group purchasing (GroupOn in Chicago, LivingSocial in Washington DC), private sales (Gilt Groupe in NY, HauteLook in LA), artisan marketplaces (Etsy in NY), eCommerce (Amazon in Seattle) and on and on. eBay and others.