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Reflections on 2016: Lawrence Ng, OnRamp Fund

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This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. Today's contribution is from Lawrence Ng , serial entrepreneur who, last year, founded OnRamp Fund , a $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups. You can see all of our holiday reflections here.

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Reflections on 2016: Michael Terpin, Transform Group

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All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the Southern California's technology ecosystem. Michael Terpin is CEO of Transform Group, a global public relations and marketing firm, specializing in emerging technologies, including virtual reality and blockchain. He's also a very active angel investor.

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Every Startup Gains From An Incubator Or Accelerator

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A question I often get as an adviser is whether or not to join a business incubator or accelerator as a way to move forward faster and smarter and increase the odds of business success. Most incubators start their program with some aptitude and business acumen tests. Costs, returns in equity and funding access.

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Reflections On 2017: Michael Jones, Science Inc.

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Since we started Science six years ago, we've co-founded and invested in more than 70 companies and have exited multiple portfolio companies. So this fall, we launched Science Blockchain, a new incubator that partners with leading entrepreneurs to build a portfolio of blockchain and cryptocurrency related businesses.

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LA TECH SUMMIT Celebrates Los Angeles’s Phenomenal Growth

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— LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016. Packed house for startup marketing panel at #latechsummit pic.twitter.com/m69V5KEJhr.

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Interview With Paul Myer, Veracity: Why The Industrial Internet Needs Security

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If you were a big company like Proctor & Gamble, for instance, you'd have a whole side of your business with IT, for your sales, marketing, and financial folks. Paul Myer: Veracity was originally part of Frost Data Capital, as part of their incubator. We've now exited the incubator and actually have an office at Microsemi.

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Interview Behzad Kianmahd, TAU Ventures

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The idea, is to make it accessible as a multi-disciplinary part of Tel Aviv University, so that young people, alumni, and students with ideas for a company can join the fund, not only to be funded with seed money, but also so they can be accelerated and potentially incubated before they go out. It was the Summer of 2016, if I'm not mistaken.