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What Mattered in 2012: Kevin Winston, Digital LA

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Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. We'll head back to the beach on the first week of summer for a week-long Silicon Beach Fest in Santa Monica June 2013.

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What Mattered in 2012: Howard Marks, StartEngine

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We were also about to build a really solid mentor network in a short period of time, pulling in about 250 CEO's and CTOs, from all backgrounds and locations. 2012 has been a remarkably interesting year in terms of developments in technology. What are the technologies, companies, or things we ought to watch in 2013?

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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

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The company was acquired by Becton, Dickinson and Company during August of 2012, for approximately $65 million. Apeel Sciences - Founded in 2012, after winning $10,000 at UCSB’s New Venture Competition, the company closed $1.25M in funding during 2013.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. And when you think about the three C’s you begin to realize that the first two of these activities are ones where the economic powerhouse networks are driven in cities outside of Silicon Valley.

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TechZulu, Grubwithus and Earbits Present: Hacktoons With Special Guest John K.!

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On January 12th, 2013 Hacktoons brings you all the cartoons, cereal, community, and coding you can take. In 2012, he discovered Kickstarter and and direct communication with the fans. Remember how great it was to wake up Saturday and watch the week’s best cartoons? Now hold that memory and think about your passion for coding.

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LA’s Chewse Joins 500 Startups | A Better Marketplace For Us To Easily Order Great Food

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The program kicked off on October 4, 2012. Demo Days will take place in February 2013 in Mountain View, San Francisco, and NYC. LA-based company, Chewse has joined 500 Startups in Silicon Valley, making it the first starup from LA to join the prestigious accelerator program and seed fund. 33 companies are in this batch.

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What Future for Accelerators?

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Sam is an uber-networker, savvy, helpful, product-oriented leader who had a great eye for young entrepreneurs and a passion about helping them. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. When we started talking to Sam Teller we knew we had the perfect person. So we went for it.