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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? Startups will lead and the whales will follow. On Nov 27th I participated in ringing opening bell at NASDAQ in NY.

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

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If you''re a large, Hollywood studio, how do you tap into the energy and ideas of the startup community? We caught up with Debra Baker , Senior Vice President, Global Business Development at Warner Bros., We caught up with Debra Baker , Senior Vice President, Global Business Development at Warner Bros., Warner Bros. READ MORE>>.

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HipTraveler | Taking Startup Competitions by Storm

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In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies. The post HipTraveler | Taking Startup Competitions by Storm appeared first on TechZulu.

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What Future for Accelerators?

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My good friend Adam Lilling and I started Launchpad more than 5 years ago . I had witnessed a number of early-stage tech startups in LA raise seed capital from the Bay Area and relocate. By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund).

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How Tuition.IO Is Helping To Tame Student Debt, One Employee At A Time

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Once upon a time, one of the best benefits that employers could offer up an employee was a company contribution to their retirement plan. I eventually ended up here in 2012, where the company came out of an incubator here called Launchpad LA. We launched the site to the public in 2013. Plus I'm having my first kid!

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