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Catalyzing Innovation In Pasadena, with Innovate Pasadena

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It started around a year ago, as I was driving back from Santa Monica from an event. I thought, it''s great what is going on in Santa Monica, but it''s very hard to be part of the same community, given how far apart the cities are. So, I thought I''d see if there was an interest here to active a community in town.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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We were also an investor in the early local listing company, CitySearch – an LA company. DemandMedia has already scaled a tech team to a considerable size in Santa Monica. My commute, for example, from Santa Monica to Century City is less than 15 minutes each way and I never have to take the freeway.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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A move to more urban environments (SF over SV, Cambridge over Waltham, London over Thames Valley, Santa Monica / Venice, Flatiron and so forth) as basically young people want to live where young people want to live. In LA we have entertainment, finance, textiles, aerospace, transportation, fashion and so forth.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. Idealab, led by Bill Gross, who founded Overture, CitySearch and MANY other business [Pasadena]. I guess Santa Monica is officially “Silicon Beach” in the local people’s minds. North of the 101].

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Female Founders and CEOs | Talia Goldstein of Three Day Rule

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Entertainment. It was Citysearch for women to find guys. We started out with our first event at South Bar (in Santa Monica) with about 30 people in attendance. Since out first event we’ve done large parties at high profiled locations such as, The London, SLS (in Beverly Hills), and The Viceroy (in Santa Monica).

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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On the other hand, Rosenblatt is one of the biggest reasons why I think Silicon Beach is the future of the entertainment industry in the United States. Google quickly bought AdSense in 2003 and Elbaz’s AS team became Google Santa Monica. Matt Coffin – LowerMyBills.com. Elon Musk – SpaceX, Tesla Motors, PayPal.