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

Both Sides of the Table

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. It also has a built-in advantage in telling the world how awesome it’s doing – it’s the center of the media world.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. He built & IPOd Demand Media. In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

In fact, in the 70’s and 80’s, the distinction was almost entirely semantic, as the military and aerospace industry invested ungodly amounts of capital to create technology breakthroughs that eventually saw wide commercial adoption in the personal computing industry. Diversity” and “Domain Experience”.

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What do I see in venture through 2010???

BeyondVC

They understand the media and online world, are well connected, and work diligently to get the job done. Venture Capital firms continue to invest in companies that are providing answers to key disruptive market forces and are exiting those investments via M&A. The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

And we’re left with a city with idyllic weather, major commerce, the media center of the world, and a great emerging technology scene. Funding is different – In Silicon Valley you have mega venture capital funds and many of them. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google.

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This Week in New York Tech - January 11th

This is going to be BIG.

Firsthand perspectives from Semantic Technology in action Semantic technologies promise to change the landscape of the web and enhance the user experience. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. RSVP: [link] 6:30PM Health 2.0 RSVP: [link] 6:30PM: What the RDF? RSVP: [link].

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Meet Bryce Roberts: The Man Who Challenged AngelList

www.readwriteweb.com

Roberts celebrates 10 years in venture capital this month. He began as part of Salt Lake Citys Wasatch Venture Fund (now Epic Ventures ), an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, in March of 2001. We thought readers might like to know more about this interesting player in the tech community. startupcto