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What Mattered in 2012: Aber Whitcomb, io/LA

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Aber Whitcomb is a partner at startup co-working and incubation community io/LA , CTO of SGN , and former co-founder and CTO of MySpace. At io/LA we launched a new 8000 sq/ft co-work and incubator space in Hollywood. Aside from the theoretical stuff, 2012 has been a year of disruption in many areas of technology.

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What Mattered in 2012: Erik Rannala of MuckerLab

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Today, we're featuring Erik Rannala , founder of MuckerLab , the startup accelerator focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. What are the technologies, companies, or things we ought to watch in 2013? What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?

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What Mattered in 2012: Rory Moore, CommNexus

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Biggest new for CommNexus / EvoNexus: EvoNexus incubator companies reached the $95M in capital raised and two companies were acquired. What are the technologies, companies, or things we ought to watch in 2013? On Nov 27th I participated in ringing opening bell at NASDAQ in NY. Lots of little ones. Little ones matter.

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A Night of Innovators

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 -- "A Night of Innovators" Hosted by CSQ, StartEngine, and Sky Dayton, founder of EarthLink and Boingo. The winter edition of C-Suite Quarterly profiles and interviews dozens of Los Angeles' most prominent innovators and revolutionary entrepreneurs.

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Why Warner Bros. Is Tapping Into The World Of Technology Startups

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Our sister company, Turner, began Media Camp San Francisco in 2012. When we saw the great success that they were doing, we started our own program in 2013. warner bros media camp mediacamp technology startup content hollywood accelerator incubator interview' How long have you been doing this? READ MORE>>.

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HipTraveler | Taking Startup Competitions by Storm

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One team, a travel company that has built a discovery and planning tool that will make it easy and fun for travelers to find and book trips, was a winner of not just the New Venture Seed Competition in 2013, but also recently won the first day of the Lavin Lean Model Startup Competition in San Diego State University.

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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

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in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit).

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