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

TechCrunch LA

seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion-dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. By and large, these workers have not benefitted much from recent technology improvements available to office-based workers—think new email and workplace-collaboration technologies, or advanced sales and HR systems.

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Intellectual Property and Its Impact on Entrepreneurship

SoCal Tech Calendar

IEEE San Fernando Valley Section and Entrepreneurs Consortium of Southern California. Tom O'Toole and Brandon Villery will cover issues on licensing, due diligence, NDA, different types of IP (trade secret, patent, trademark, copyright), etc. See https://www.123signup.com/event?id=jmphg. 123signup.com/event?id=jmphg.

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Does a VCs Culture Really Matter? The Upfront Story

Both Sides of the Table

Historically we were near Beverly Hills in Los Angeles and throughout the 1990s and early 2000s this was fine since there was not strong locus in LA with some great deals in Pasadena, downtown, San Fernando Valley as well as on the Westside in Santa Monica. Also, many of our deals were in NYC, Chicago, San Francisco or London.