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Q3 Venture Investments For SoCal Total Around $1.0 Billion

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Q3 has traditionally been a slower, venture funding quarter in Southern California, due to summer vacations and a slower work schedule for both high tech companies and venture firms during the summer months. based in Malibu, which secured around $100M in funding to acquired the North American Credit-on-Self division of D&B in July.

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Reflections on 2018: Michael Jones, Science Inc.

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Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that you found most interesting in 2018? www.science-inc.com).

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Interview with Aaron Hirschorn, DogVacay.com

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If you need a 12 acre ranch in Malibu for your Great Dane, with an animal trainer on staff, that's $75.00. If the hosts have credentials themselves, they can share if they have liability insurance, pet first aid or CPR certification, if they're a vet tech, and any professional associations they might be involved with.

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Interview with Aaron Hirschhorn, DogVacay.com

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If you need a 12 acre ranch in Malibu for your Great Dane, with an animal trainer on staff, that's $75.00. If the hosts have credentials themselves, they can share if they have liability insurance, pet first aid or CPR certification, if they're a vet tech, and any professional associations they might be involved with.

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The Work of Film Through Technology: Interview with CG Supervisor Morris May

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Although, his vast knowledge and expertise is a day and evening activity when he is not in the afternoon wind on a kitesurf board in Malibu (explaining his not so nerdy tan). I caught up with Morris over an afternoon surf at a secret spot up in Malibu to learn just how a CG film is made. It is rather an outlined structure.

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Does a VCs Culture Really Matter? The Upfront Story

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But as LA as a tech community grew massively the percentage of our LA deals went from 15% to 50% from 1996 to 2010 and it has remained solid since then. Also, many of our deals were in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco or London. Being up there one felt like king of the mountain.

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Interview with Rob Farrow, Chi.mp

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At some point, you've got to figure out where you draw the line, due to social network fatigue when you're at the point where you are checking 8, 9, or ten different sites every day. Rob Farrow: Lots of what goes on in technology happens on the West Coast. Meebo is another powerful site. The list goes on and on.