socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2010

Over the last few months, Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures (www.clearstone.com) has had a number of high profile exits in its portfolio. The founders ran them, with the founder's ideas, but we supported them and took them to customers. Sumant Mandal: First of all, you know our heritage is as an incubator.

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Clearstone Idealab Incubator Invest 140

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. You're funded, correct? How did the incubation part come about?

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Clearstone Incubator HTML Twiistup 124

Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. One of the founders wrote a Python script that sent out custom emails to a list they had developed. Then get VC funding, rent a cool space, hire a big team, rebuild and relaunch. It took month and years.

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Incubator Web Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 91