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Report: Drones Tracking Your Mobile Phone In The San Fernando Valley

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Think you see some suspicious drones overhead in the San Fernando Valley? No, apparently-- according to a report --they are a Singapore startup''s effort to sell your information to marketers. drones wifi wireless tracking fernando valley angeles losangeles' READ MORE>>.

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More Free Rides In LA From Taxi Magic

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The battle for mindshare--and riders--in Los Angeles is continuing today, as Taxi app provider Taxi Magic announced that it will gain offer up free taxi rides to people who uses the company''s app to hail a cab, through Friday, May 9th. READ MORE>>.

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Mid-Year Economic Forecast

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Please join the Los Angeles Business Journal and San Fernando Valley Business Journal as we present our 2016 Mid-Year Economic Trends and Forecast. Friday, July 15, 2016 -- Mid-Year Economic Forecast. DonÂ’t miss this opportunity to be a part of the conversation.

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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

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seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion-dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. But it’s here in the (other) Valley’s southernmost edge that investors have found a startup they consider to be the next potential billion-dollar “unicorn” that will come out of Los Angeles.

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How GridTest Is Helping To Build The Next Electric Car, With Neal Roche

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How do you create a business around the still-emerging market of electric vehicles and avoid those issues? One way is developing testing tools and infrastructure around that market, to help those manufacturers in their research and development, which is just what Calabasas-based GridTest Systems (www.gridtest.com) is doing.

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What I Learned In 2015: Lief Morin, KeyInfo

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For Key Information Systems, it was building, productizing, and going-to-market with a complete set of data center services. We lit our own KeyInfo fiber ring, which provides advanced connectivity services to Ventura and Los Angeles counties. In 2004, Lief was recognized by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal's �40 Under 40� list.

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Does a VCs Culture Really Matter? The Upfront Story

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What kind of firm do we want to be, how do we instill shared values, how do we handle generational changes, how do we onboard new partners, how does our strategy need to change given changes in market dynamics, etc. I think the best firms try to continue to reinvent themselves as markets change as we would encourage startups to do.