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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

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Those programs--epitomized by YCombinator in the Bay Area, and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado--attract newly minted entrepreneurs with a mixture of cash and mentoring, and a program which rapidly takes ideas and turns them into viable, executing businesses. Typically, venture backed companies, always entrepreneur led.

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Burn This Number After Calling: Greg Cohn on Burner

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We caught up with serial entrepreneur Greg Cohn , who brought us up to speed on what Burner is about, and the story behind the app. The example is a venture capitalist who might want to take calls from entrepreneurs, or a celebrity or someone who might be an expert in a field, like law or accounting. Were you here in LA with Yahoo?

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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit FAST

Eric Greenspan

Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. We will collaborate on ideas and projects and we created the Superfriends together, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo!

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Interview with Matt Kozlov, Techstars Space Accelerator

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There are lots of resources available to entrepreneurs in the industry, but they are not necessarily that easy to access, whether that's deep insight into how to work with the government or with NASA, or how to work with the big primes, we felt that we could help create that resource. What's your biggest advice for a space entrepreneur?

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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit

Eric Greenspan

Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. We created Superfriends, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, We will collaborate on ideas and projects.

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TYLT Labs' New Seed Fund And The Promise Of Silicon Beach

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Is there anything specific you are looking for in an entrepreneur or company? Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here. We''re now trying to tie into the local universities, incubators, and other centers of entrepreneurship. Gerard Casale: Traction is one of the big items. READ MORE>>.

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First Round Capital Launches Dorm Room Fund | $500,000 Pilot Investment Fund For Students

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Josh Kopelman, managing partner at Philadelphia based First Round Capital has launched Dorm Room Fund, in a move to reach out to college dorm entrepreneurs, like he was in 1992 while at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He says on his blog , “I was a dorm room entrepreneur. The initial batch of eight students is on.

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