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Be Great Fest | Celebrating Los Angeles’ Startup Ecosystem

Tech Zulu Event

It’s the premiere launch of Be Great Fest ( www.begreatfest.com ) and TechZulu is hooking you up with 20% off the ticket price with promo code “ TechZulu “ Be Great Fest is addressing a unique, unprecedented challenge. s tech scene by the city’s own incubator-accelerator Be Great Partners.

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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

InfoChachkie

DreamHost has a successful track record of incubating technologies in-house and then releasing them to the broader market. In 2012 the company rolled out Inktank, an innovative open source storage solution based on Ceph’s distributed file system, which was subsequently sold to Red Hat for $175 million.

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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 in July 2015. Here’s more from CNBC. .

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This 28 Year Old Woman Co-Founded One Of The Most Successful YouTube Networks

InfoChachkie

My mother and father started a little hardware company in Price, Utah and they turned it into a very, very successful construction company. In addition to changing the company''s name to Big Frame and taking on accomplished Co-Founder Steve Raymond, Sarah also received assistance from the startup incubator LaunchPad LA.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

Tech Zulu Event

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of January 22, 2012. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Price: $25 (Early Bird). Event Details.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

October 5, 2012. Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. Prices have gone up dramatically on this beachfront strip. Venices median home price in the first eight months of 2012 broke the $1 million barrier, rising to $1,012,000 from $899,000 in the first eight months of 2011.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. But in 2012 a visit to any major college in America will show you the massive increase in aspirations of our young talent to become the next Mark Zuckerberg and build a future Facebook. They compete on features, price and execution. Today’s Normalization.