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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. What was the biggest news for you this year? At io/LA we launched a new 8000 sq/ft co-work and incubator space in Hollywood.

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What Mattered in 2012: Rory Moore, CommNexus

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What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? Biggest new for CommNexus / EvoNexus: EvoNexus incubator companies reached the $95M in capital raised and two companies were acquired. Peregrine Semiconductor, a semiconductor company I co-founded in 1990, became a publically traded company on NASDAQ on August 8th.

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Startups Uncensored #26

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, May 10, 2012 -- Startups Uncensored #26. Prior to BeachMint, Josh was the President of Slingshot Labs, a division of News Corporation, is a web incubator dedicated to building new Internet companies as well as a co-founder and the chief operating officer of MySpace.com. 70 Million Dollars.

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Bio Roundup: Bristol & Illumina Blues, Sickle Cell News & More

Xconomy

Illumina fended off a hostile takeover bid from Roche back in February 2012, and over the next three years shares went from about $51 apiece to as high as $219.30 —AzurRx Biopharma (NASDAQ: AZRX ), which has an executive office at SUNY Downstate’s biotech incubator in Brooklyn, raised $5.3 AND IN OTHER NEWS…. in July 2015.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

Tech Zulu Event

Sam Teller, the Managing Director of Launchpad LA hinted that big news would come soon. Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012.

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Veteran LA law firm opens a Silicon Beach office and launches a pro-bono “Precelerator”

SoCal Delicious

November 8, 2012 6:00 PM Only $20! Like any accelerator or incubator, companies and teams must be selected before being admitted to the Stubbs Alderton & Markiles Precelerator, but in a unique twist, the firm will not take anything in return for their participation, including equity or a guarantee of legal representation.

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Some Entrepreneurs Get Big Value From An Incubator

Startup Professionals Musings

More and more entrepreneurs are hearing about the successful graduates and investors queued behind a few well-known startup incubators, including Y Combinator, TechStars, and the Founder Institute. According to the National Business Incubator Association (NBIA), there are currently over 1,900 members in over 60 nations. Peer support.

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