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

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” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. I think there is also no denying the role that Richard Rosenblatt has played in building the LA tech ecosystem and spawning great entrepreneurs who followed in his footsteps. “There’s something going on in LA.”

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

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I was graduated with a double degree in economics & political science from UCSD in 1991. It was the midst of a recession and I was happy to have any job at all let alone what was considered one of the more prestigious business jobs at the time graduating from UCSD. When I started my second company I was a serial entrepreneur.

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If you Can’t Make Time, MakeSpace

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A few months ago I wrote about an entrepreneur, Sam Rosen, whom we brought on as an EIR at Upfront Ventures. Now remember that Sam is an entrepreneur. When I was in college ( UCSD, go Tritons !) If you Can’t Make Time, MakeSpace. Today we announced our launch. Here’s the deal. I felt bad. I enquired what he was going to do.

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UC San Diego Gets $1M From Arm Of Intellectual Ventures

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According to UCSD, the Institute for the Global Entrepreneur received $1M from the Invention Science Fund (ISF), the incubator arm of Intellectual Ventures, and San Diego's Legler Benbough Foundation, to accelerate new startup companies.

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MemComputing Selected By Chevron Technology Ventures

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The company's technology was originally invented at the University of California, San Diego, at the labs of Dr. Massimiliano Di Ventra and Dr. Fabio Traversa at UCSD; Beane is a former Entrepreneur-in-Residence at UCSD. READ MORE>>.

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MemComputing Joins Air Force Research Lab Space Accelerator

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Beane, formerly an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at UCSD. The company is a spinout of the University of California, San Diego, and was founded by Dr. Massimiliano Di Ventra and Dr. Fabio Traversa, and John A. The Catalyst Space Accelerator is centered around space-based Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR).

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Version 0.9. What Do You Think?

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If you’re in LA and looking for somebody to do project-based marketing jobs – Jacqui’s your lady (not to mention a fellow UCSD alum!). Become a resource for entrepreneurs to have access to the lawyers, accountants, real-estate professionals and other people with whom our entrepreneurs work.

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