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

Both Sides of the Table

Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.

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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. At Aster Data Systems, Ajeet and his team ran into challenges trying to transition their product to mainstream customers: We had a lot of success working with large web companies. 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. At Aster Data Systems, Ajeet and his team ran into challenges trying to transition their product to mainstream customers: We had a lot of success working with large web companies. You can scale much better.

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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. That includes posting audio and video versions online (via Yale’s Web site, YouTube, and iTunes), and providing transcripts and now book versions of the lectures.

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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.”. Joblife tries to resolve these challenges by empowering job seekers with a web application that is accessible from any mobile phone. We’ve continued bootstrapping since then — today we are a $2.5

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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.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Surfers alway want to know the waves conditions in real-time and they want to stay connected with their local and global community. After more than a year of growing the goFlow global surf community, we realized that this need to know the conditions in real time doesn’t only apply for surfers. Thanks to Roni Eshel, goFlow !