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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

TechCrunch LA

Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.

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

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This started as a post in which I was going to write out tips to personal branding and became in stead an essay of my own branding journey. I was graduated with a double degree in economics & political science from UCSD in 1991. My colleagues that graduated with engineering degrees from UCSD were paid $31,000 – 15% more.

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StartupSD: Mark Suster

SoCal Tech Calendar

He focuses on early-stage technology companies. Mark is a UCSD graduate and writes one of the best startup blogs on the Internet. Mark Suster is a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. See [link] (more)

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How to Not Suck at a Group Presentation

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So I thought I’d write a piece on how to not suck when you give a presentation. Talk us through how the person using your product is benefiting through your technology. I recently spoke at the business school at UCSD. It is not sufficient to write yourself notes and read them before hand. For fawk sake, practice!

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

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Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. When you begin to peel back the onion some surprising data presents itself.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. But in the end we selected David Lin , a superstar who did 4 years at the technology investment banking firm Montgomery & Co and 4 years as Director of Strategy at the comparison shopping site PriceGrabber where he dealt with many operational issues.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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There is much discussion online and also in small, private groups, about why the price of technology companies – public and private – are falling. Brad was openly writing about this and it felt like he was giving the VC playbook away for free! When I started blogging it was because I was inspired by Brad Feld.

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