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

Both Sides of the Table

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. LA By The Numbers.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

.” And if aspiring investment teams are looking to get together the SBIC has come back with a new VC focused program to help non-Silicon Valley communities fund companies beyond their initial angel money. It’s a very smartly designed debenture program. There are two reasons you need local capital. Maker Studios.

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Troubled media sharing startup Color Labs said to be acquired by Apple

The Next Web

But what you may not know is that Nguyen actually designed the first user interface for the Color app. For that, he turned to a previous relationship he had with Apple’s Senior Vice President Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue. Or its software engineering team could be the target, if Apple was impressed by their work.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. It was also in a group of about 15 people in law offices in Los Angeles.

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

Austin Startup

In an interview with First Round Capital, Dropbox’s Vice President of Product and Design, Todd Jackson, observed : “The PM role needs to be purposely flexible, almost by design. A PM basically sits at the center of UX, technology and business. You may have heard the quote: ‘The PM is the CEO of their product.’

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

Given likely market changes, how will we design and build so that the systems can respond to marketplace changes? What other kinds of capabilities such as graphic design, user interaction, product manager, QA will we need? Here in Los Angeles, it's the LA CTO Forum - a private, invite only group of 250+. Who will do that?

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Why Crunch Modes Doesn't Work: Six Lessons

www.igda.org

Where O is total output, X is the given output during a benchmark number of hours, designated by Y , and t is the actual number of hours worked. Sleepy Medical Interns Called a Road Hazard , Los Angeles Times, Karen Kaplan, January 13, 2005. To express that view as a simple equation, we can write: O = X/Y * t.