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

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billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. But the “monetization heart of the Internet” doesn’t stop at Overture, Applied Semantics and MySpace. Deflationary Economics now favors us.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. I wish every city could have an 1871.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising. It’s tempting to want to stay in your offices and fund raise via email or web conferencing. As the CEO you have many tasks you need to do on a regular basis. Press the flesh.

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