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

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What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3

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The One Word That Shouldn’t Exist in an Entrepreneur’s Vocabulary

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I worked in both before leaving to work in a software company at 17. I used to ask Deborah to book my travel plans in France and Germany were I went 1-2 times / month. My mom bought our family’s first computer and encouraged me to learn it at 13. She opened 2 businesses – a bakery and then a restaurant.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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Before you think I was a complete nerd, in addition to making money selling software, which I did at 15, 16 years old, I also made money throwing keg parties. So Small Talk was a big object-oriented programming language, and a bunch of people from our company went to work at Small Talk, and they all went into the software industry.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

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We had every reference client we worked with call their senior team members (we had already won a major project at Scottish Water, Anglian Water and another at a large water company in Paris, France). Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. we would support 6.0

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

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We had every reference client we worked with call their senior team members (we had already won a major project at Scottish Water, Anglian Water and another at a large water company in Paris, France). Two weeks after winning the deal and well into implementation planning we released a new version of our software. we would support 6.0

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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I thought I was pretty sell suited to answer that question because having grown up in Northern California but lived and worked in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain & Japan over 11 years I had seen quite a few societies and work environments.

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Be Careful not to Become a Conference Ho

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Now I’m in France. You think that everybody is marveling at your travels, your stories, your airplane layovers, your new friends and your photo from the South of France. Name one, professional conference attendee that has built a successful software business? You see their Tweets from airports across the globe.

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