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

Mucker Lab

At the time, LA and Santa Clara were both the epicenter of the technology industry due to the significant overlap between the aerospace/military industry (Los Angeles) and the computing business (Silicon Valley). Over time, though, military spending wound down and many large aerospace and military companies left Southern California.

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A new field guide for entrepreneurs of all stripes

Startup Lessons Learned

While I got my start as a technology entrepreneur, I have always felt that industries such as traditional book publishing or Fortune 500 retailing will reap huge competitive advantages by adopting Lean Startup approaches. Maybe you’ll be hunting on a reef with a spear gun for 20lb groupers (B2B sales at a conference)?

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. We do a lot of B2B and also have an "Early Stage Branding" practice for technology startups. Oh, and I forget to mention in my introduction about B2B. I've known Farida for quite a while. Maybe ten years.