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

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” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure.

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GRP Excited to add Sam Rosen to Its Ranks. How Did He Get the Role? Hustle. Here’s the Story.

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We’re excited to continue to grow our investment professional staff and will continue to do so over the course of 2013 & 2014 with our new fund. He found creative ways to politely stay on my radar screen. It made me realize that we’ve never properly introduced our associates: Graham Gelwicks. Jordan Hudson. Kevin Zhang.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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She is trying to build a “creative economy” in South Korea and wanted to learn from some Americans what made us so innovative and what they could learn from us. Mark Suster (@msuster) November 1, 2014. The doubters will question you. The trolls will swipe at you. Competitors will undermine you.

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EO Members Share Takeaways from 2023 WEF in Davos

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Inspiring Creativity Among Youth Troy Armour carried his company’s message from youth to the inner circle at WEF, and even got some of the Junk Kouture alumni a platform to speak and share their stories. I started going regularly in 2014 when I became a Global Shaper. (I I always weave EO into the story of Junk Kouture.

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

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This is especially true in a booming market (like 2014) where PR firms can charge premiums and be super selective about whom they work with. You need somebody who is thinking laterally about how to creatively get extra attention at conferences or trade-shows. You need somebody who can react quickly to inbound journalist questions.

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The Heartbeat of Korean Gaming: Pangyo Techno Valley’s Evolution into a Cultural Epicenter

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Picture courtesy of The Korea Creative Content Agency) The Korea Creative Content Agency held the 2023 Global Game Hub Center Open House on July 25 at the Global Game Hub Center in Pangyo, Gyeonggi-do. Amid these strides, the 2022 White Paper on Korean Games by the Korea Creative Content Agency highlighted an 11.2%

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EO and Flow

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I launched Flow Forum in September 2014 and since then, we’ve held nine meetings and our activities have included a one-mile swim in San Francisco Bay, snowshoeing up a 10,000 ft. Intuition powers creativity, and we all know how important creativity is to our professional success!