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Hub 101 Talks. Dr. Beth Seidenberg, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers

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Beth Seidenberg focuses on life science investing in digital health and biotech and works with entrepreneurs to develop companies with breakthrough technology for treating patients and improving the delivery of healthcare. See https://form.jotform.com/cluce/hub101-talks-beth-seidenberg.

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Mentors-Plus-Capital Programs – Intense Incubation

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By Jim Flowers A few months ago, Marty invited me to comment on business incubation and what a startup company ought to expect from an incubator. Paul Graham built the mold at Y Combinator , which he founded back in 2005. Tags: entrepreneurs incubators relationships startups. Relationships , I said back then.

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Idealab Boosts Team

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Pasadena-based Idealab , the startup business incubator founded by Bill Gross, announced this morning that it has added Andy Steuer to its team. The firm said Steuer will work on new company creation, particularly in the new mobile applications area.

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Reflections on 2019: Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures

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What was the biggest news for you/your company this year? Our goal is to build a platform that helps our companies achieve best practices as quickly as possible on their way to becoming world-class companies. We are more thoughtful than ever about our companies hitting meaningful milestones to attract further rounds of capital.

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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

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We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. Typically, venture backed companies, always entrepreneur led. Then I started working for these companies as well.

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

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Now, a new breed of companies is finally making it out, which has had a huge impact on valuations. There''s a huge backlog of companies trying to make it out. What''s interesting about ad-tech, is that with the exception of AdaptTV and AOL, there''s not a lot of large buyers out there for ad-tech companies.

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Interview with Jamie Siminoff, Unsubscribe.com

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Jamie tells us the interesting story behind how the company started plus how the company managed to quickly land investor interest. I had just sold my last company, Phonetag, and was starting to look at doing new things. I had been doing some angel investing, and incubating several projects. We raised $2.1M