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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

As an entrepreneur himself, founding and operating printed circuit board factories in Taiwan, my father was debating between two places to immigrate to and build his next new venture: Los Angeles (“The Valley” aka San Fernando Valley) and Santa Clara (“Silicon Valley”). Ability” vs. “Knowledge”.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Paige Craig: Adrenaline-junkie Paige Craig is a former marine and intelligence consultant who’s now a prolific angel investor and startup advisor based out of Los Angeles. View More » Jobs Director of Marketing and Retention a. Craig is currently the CEO and founder of stealth-ish startup BetterWorks.

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Cornerstone OnDemand CEO Adam Miller shares how he built a $2 billion cloud startup from LA

The Next Web

When cloud services company Cornerstone OnDemand got its start in Los Angeles in 1999, the odds were against it. The company has a 98 percent voluntary retention rate (which doesn’t count terminated employees), and Miller attributes part of that success to not having to deal with the poaching that goes on in the Valley.

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Software Eating Industries

Mucker Lab

The list of industries where the marketshare leader still haven’t learned how to use software to accelerate their customer acquisition, improve their customer retention, increase their customer satisfaction, lower their manufacturing cost, shorten their supply chain etc, etc is long and impressive.

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29 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

#7- To prioritizes employee and client retention. The company that employed us began putting profits above people and new sales above client retention. The three of us had the exact opposite mentality and created a company that prioritizes employee and client retention. Photo Credit: Steven Randall. Photo Credit:Olivia Skuza.