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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

Startup Lessons Learned

When none came to light, he followed a lead to Los Angeles and by Wednesday he was signing a contract with a lab there that usually does anti-doping testing. The story of how Curative pivoted and scaled is about moving with entrepreneurial speed to find a solution, then collaborating with investors and government for the public good.

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Los Angeles Technology Connector – Kurt Daradics

SoCal CTO

and report them to city hall for quick resolution; an opportunity for government to use technology to save money and improve accountability to those they govern; and a positive, collaborative platform for real action. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? I like Ken's METal Breakfasts.

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Out of the Crisis #27: Eren Bali of Carbon Health on public health, COVID vaccinations, and working as a unified society to solve problems

Startup Lessons Learned

Ultimately, the company partnered with the City of Los Angeles , and as Eren recalls, "seven days after the original handshake and launch into a scheduling website, we helped launch Dodger Stadium, which was the single largest mass vaccination site in the country." They pivoted to monitoring patients for COVID, then testing.

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Economic Diplomacy and Tech Startups: the “What” and “How” of an Honorary Consul of France in…

Austin Startup

I frequently re-direct inquiries about the process to obtain French nationality: only the Consulate general in Los Angeles handles that process. The French government, through the French Consulates in the U.S., But one event will always stand out. As a testament to good things to come, we had the French Ambassador to the U.S.,

France 48
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The Austinpreneur’s Guide to SXSW 2018 Panels & Parties

Austin Startup

It’s stocked with free food, drinks and wifi but the real reason you want to be there is because we’ve curated all of the top entrepreneurs, investors, and innovators at SXSW and invited them to stop by. Salon C Register: SXSW badge only Getting and Making Angel Investments Are you founding or joining a startup venture?

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43 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

I was also sick of my own curated life on Facebook and thought, there must be a place more interesting than this to hang out online. I am a big advocate of transparency in business and government and believe that many injustices in our society exist because people are ill informed. 6) Lack of information in an industry.

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Why John Frankel Leaned in Early on Klout and Cornerstone OnDemand and What He Sees Next

Both Sides of the Table

So I was delighted that he was recently in Los Angeles and I had a chance to have one of our typical private meetings but this time we did it with a camera on. And oddly it took an investor in New York to highlight to me Cornerstone OnDemand – one of the most successful software company in my home town of Los Angeles!