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Venture firm M13 names former Techstars LA managing director, Anna Barber, as its newest partner

TechCrunch LA

Designed to be a collaborative startup company incubator alongside corporate partners, Launchpad focuses on developing new consumer tech businesses focused on M13’s main investment areas: health, food, transportation, and housing. “ The EIRs will receive a small stipend and equity in the business, Barber said.

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Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Impact entertainment “accelerator” inks deal with Netflix

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. “As Impact continues to evolve the way that global talent is discovered, projects are developed and how the creative industry connects, this partnership demonstrates both companies’ commitment to improving the development system in order to generate more original, quality IP to meet the growing demand.”

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Maine’s Largest Hospital Launches Internal Health Tech Accelerator

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The Innovation Cohort is the hospital’s internal startup accelerator for physicians and other employees who have ideas for new products and services to improve healthcare. The program supports faculty, trainees and staff in transforming their ‘back of the envelope’ drawing into a final product or service ready for clinical use.

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Tapping The Power Of The Crowd For Ideas, Advice and Funding, with JumpStartFund

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Dirk Ahlborn: We are coming out of the nonprofit incubator, the Girvan Institute of Technology, which has been around since 2002, and is funded by NASA Ames. It is one of the older incubators in Los Angeles, even though not a lot of people know about it. Most of the time, startups don''t know that those patents and IP are there.

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Interview with Costin Tuculescu, Freebinar

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To address the need for more affordable webinars, services like DimDim (acquired by Salesforce.com earlier this month), and Huntington Beach-based Freebinar (www.freebinar.com) have been offering up free webinar products to users. The firm was incubated with the founder's own cash--the other founder is my father.

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3 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know about Indiana Innovation

Xconomy

The Indiana Business Research Center at Indiana University shared data that shows the state is the nation’s second-largest exporter of life sciences products , with $9.9 Indiana’s life sciences sector touches the lives of people around the world. billion in exports during the 12 months ended Sept. The results?

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