Silicon Alley Channels Silicon Valley in South L.A.

Silicon Alley Channels Silicon Valley in South L.A.

In Southern California’s underdeveloped tech world there’s Silicon Beach, the 3-mile stretch of startups from Santa Monica to Venice modeled after Silicon Valley, and then there’s much more obscure Silicon Alley. The latter, as its name suggests, also strives to incorporate the tech capital’s successes and “represents what Los Angeles could be”. A Hack-A-Thon at Normandie Christian School in South L.A. on Saturday gave a glimpse into this work-in-progress. The techies weren’t entrepreneurs with investor…

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