3. Categories

      Functional Areas: Funding, Legal, Marketing, Recruiting
      Skills: Leadership, Productivity

  4. About Los Angeles

    Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs;or /los ˈanxeles/ in Spanish) is the largest city in the state of California and the second-largest in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A., it is rated an alpha world city, having an estimated population of 3.8 million and spanning over 469.1 square miles (1,214.9 square kilometers) in Southern California. Additionally, the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area is home to nearly 17,776,000 people who hail from all over the globe and speak more than a hundred different languages. Los Angeles is the seat of Los Angeles County, the most populous and most diverse county in the United States. Its inhabitants are known as "Angelenos" (ændʒəˈlinoʊz).

    Los Angeles was founded in the year 1781, by Spanish governor Felipe de Neve as El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles de Porciúncula (The Village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels of Porciúncula). It became a part of Mexico in 1821, following its independence from Spain. In 1848, at the end of the Mexican-American War, Los Angeles and California were purchased as part of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, thus becoming part of the United States; Mexico retained the territory of Baja California. It was incorporated as a municipality on April 4 1850 — five months before California achieved statehood.

    Los Angeles is one of the world's most prominent centers of culture, technology, and international trade. It is home to renowned institutions covering a broad range of professional and cultural fields. The city and its immediate vicinity lead the world in producing popular entertainment — such as motion picture, television, video games and recorded music — which forms the base of Los Angeles' international fame and global status. The Los Angeles Consular Corps is one of the largest and most important consular communities in the world.

  1. Los Angeles

    Comments Leave a Comment

    1-15 of 23 // 1 2 »

    1. Mentioned In 23 Articles

    2. Startup Lessons From The Food Truck Revolution

      Explore FastCompany.com (Apr 13 2012) Marketing , Productivity

      Startup Lessons From The Food Truck Revolution The food truck phenomenon has taken the country by storm. From New York to Los Angeles, the number, the variety, and the quality of food trucks are on the rise. In 2011, the mobile food ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   San Francisco   New York   California

    3. 7 Tricks for Every Entrepreneur’s Back Pocket

      Explore inc.com (Mar 25 2012)

      7 Tricks for Every Entrepreneur’s Back Pocket ...esorts like the Mauna Kea Beach Hotel, Hotel Shangri-La in Santa Monica, and Hollywood Roosevelt in Los Angeles, spoke recently as part of the University of California at Santa Barbara Distinguished Lecture Seri... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   University of California   Santa Barbara   Los Angeles

    4. What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

      Explore bothsidesofthetable.com (Feb 13 2012)

      What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI ...bring them on board. A couple of quick stories / examples: 1. Making Things Happen There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events. He was a really nice and personable guy who had deep ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Nike   Los Angeles   General Motors

    5. Beyond Money, What Do Young Startup Founders Want?

      Explore Blog (Feb 6 2012) Funding

      Just as investors invest in startups, startup founders make investments in their investors. From both sides of the table, profitability and long-term value are shared objectives: investors want to make investments that yield high ROIwhile entrepreneurs want to build products and business models that mature into game-changing companies, buyouts and IPOs. Especially for Gen-Y entrepreneurs, the startup scene is a "buyer's market" where the chances of finding funding and ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   San Francisco   Washington   Los Angeles

    6. Everything I need to know about startups, I learned from a crime boss

      Explore gigaom.com (Jan 7 2012)

      Everything I need to know about startups, I learned from a crime boss ...preneur who ran a profitable business that employed dozens of people. He lived in a swanky downtown Los Angeles penthouse. His kids went to private school. He kept his fridge well stocked with imported beer and ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jason Fried   Los Angeles   TechStars

    7. How to save money running a startup

      Explore Calacanis.com (Dec 12 2011)

      ...} 18. Outsource to middle America: There are tons of brilliant people living between San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York who don’t live in a $4,000 one bedroom apartment and pay $8 to dry clean a shirt–hire... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   America   San Francisco   New York

    8. 10 Tips on Hiring for Creativity

      Explore inc.com (Dec 4 2011) Recruiting

      10 Tips on Hiring for Creativity ...priate tools. Ego is not welcome. Leading by example is!" —Julien Le Bas, creative practice leader, Los Angeles for Jack Morton (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Hawaii   New York   Los Angeles

    9. How To Beat A Well-Funded Competitor

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 7 2011)

      How To Beat A Well-Funded Competitor ...hat he had just landed in L.A. recently and he used our website to, sort of, navigate the waters of Los Angeles. Considering that he’s a bit of a cult hero for me, it was a very interesting story. The list of pr... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   Australia   San Francisco

    10. How Assistly Used Lean Startup Ideas To Cash Out For $50 Million

      Explore mixergy.com (Sep 21 2011)

      How Assistly Used Lean Startup Ideas To Cash Out For $50 Million ... No, right? Alex: They were. Andrew: Oh, they were. Okay. All right. And MySpace, of course, was in Los Angeles. Okay. Alex: That’s right. Andrew: Am I wrong to assume that MySpace was, potentially, the candidat... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Fred Wilson   San Francisco   Macromedia

    11. How to Get Your Startup from Point A to Point B

      Explore Startup Professionals Musings (Sep 18 2011)

      How to Get Your Startup from Point A to Point B ...ess the problem, then get back on course. Yes, just like an airplane flying from New York to Los Angeles, your path to success will look like an EKG line. But as much as you’ll be blown off course tempora... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   New York   Los Angeles   Bob La Loggia

    12. The Problem with Collecting Logos at Startups

      Explore bothsidesofthetable.com (Sep 1 2011) Funding

      The Problem with Collecting Logos at Startups ... company is more mature. 5. “We want some investors in New York, some in Silicon Valley and some in Los Angeles to help us with Hollywood.” No. You don’t. You want 1 really strong investor locally to meet you fo... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Hollywood   Mark Suster   New York

    13. How I Turned My Company Around When The Dot Com Bubble Burst – with Eric Kuhn

      Explore mixergy.com (Mar 28 2011)

      How I Turned My Company Around When The Dot Com Bubble Burst – with Eric Kuhn ... online interview with you said, “Do you think that the valuation . . .” oh, here it is, someone in Los Angeles said, “What do you think of the valuations of some recent Internet IPOs? Is this a bubble? If so, w... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Nebraska   San Francisco   Warren Buffett

    14. Lead Generation, The Underappreciated Revenue Channel – with Jay Weintraub

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 15 2010)

      Lead Generation, The Underappreciated Revenue Channel – with Jay Weintraub ... founder, right? Sounds good, I guess, but I was a near founder to a really cool company out in the Los Angeles area. After being there for about five years, I’m not a great hundreds of person company guy. So, n... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Las Vegas   San Francisco   India

    15. Honest Advice on Starting a Company (Entire Talk) - Mark Suster (Serial Entrepreneur)

      Explore Entrepreneurship Corner (Oct 14 2010)

      ... UCSD (economics) and University of Chicago (MBA), he joined Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in Los Angeles to build computer systems for large corporations. There, he focused mostly on computer networking b... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   London   California   Los Angeles

    16. “Unjargoning” The Investment Process – with Fred Destin

      Explore mixergy.com (Oct 6 2010)

      “Unjargoning” The Investment Process – with Fred Destin ...e Southern California was as big as it got recently, what I would see is entrepreneurs who lived in Los Angeles, who lived in San Diego and wanted to get funding would go into the local venture capitalist office... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Symantec   Boston   London

    17. 1-15 of 23 // 1 2 »