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

Both Sides of the Table

We needed routers, switches, databases, caching software, load balancers, application servers, browsers, compression algortyhms, streaming technology, low-cost storage, management consoles, programming libraries and on and on. Deflationary Economics now favors us. I think it’s the era of the application.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh

Steve Blank

Prior to Aster, Ajeet worked at Oracle where he was part of the team that first launched Oracle Database to the Amazon EC2 cloud. Selling to an IT person or businessperson in the middle of Chicago is very different from selling to a LinkedIn engineer. We were mostly selling our product to engineers. You can scale much better.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 43: Dakin Sloss and Ajeet Singh

Steve Blank

Prior to Aster, Ajeet worked at Oracle where he was part of the team that first launched Oracle Database to the Amazon EC2 cloud. Selling to an IT person or businessperson in the middle of Chicago is very different from selling to a LinkedIn engineer. We were mostly selling our product to engineers. You can scale much better.

Cofounder 279
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Intro to Blockchain: Why You Can’t Miss Out

The Startup Magazine

Fintank , the Chicago-based Fintech facilitator, recently hosted the Fintank Blockchain Summit in Chicago. Hundreds of similar events are taking place globally. As a distributed database, the critical challenge is security in both identification and transaction detail. Fintank Blockchain Summit Welcome.

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Yale Innovates (kind of) | Online Lectures Reformatted to Print | Wired Campus

Campus Entrepreneurship

It is clear from my database of high impact student startups that Yale University is an incredibly entrepreneurial campus. My favorite turn of the century cases (University of Wisconsin and University of Chicago) highlight the various methods that knowledge was distributed to the public.

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27 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

million+ company, with 60+ team members doing tours in NYC, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington DC and Los Angeles.”. After a long research done on the market, I realized that there aren’t many vendors offering to monitor both local and global news sources at the same time. Thanks to Nick Gray, Museum Hack ! #2

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

My firm, atCommunications, LLC—a Chicago-based Web development and digital marketing agency—is this year celebrating its 20th year in business! It’s a repeatable model that we’ve been able to apply globally to everything from autonomous vehicles to drug discovery. 2- Raise and support our family on our own terms.