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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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Daryl Bernstein , RightSignature (Santa Barbara, software). James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Sam Friedman , ParkMe (Santa Monica, mobile apps). Aaron Hirschhorn , DogVacay (Santa Monica, marketplace). Ryan Hudson , Honey (Pasadena, apps).

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Clearstone Gets Another Win With Ankeena

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Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures appears to be on an exit roll this month, with the acquisition Thursday of Ankeena Networks , a supplier of software for content delivery networks. Just a couple of weeks ago, Clearstone portfolio firm Meru Networks had a successful IPO on the NASDAQ.

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Fundable Takes On Crowdfunding For Startups

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Santa Monica- and Columbus, Ohio-based Fundable said that it is looking to provide a crowdfunding platform for "serious startups". Schroter is a repeat entrepreneur, who founded such companies as Go Big Network, and has involvement with a number of local startups in Los Angeles. on its advisory team.

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upStart.LA Breakdown | Accelerators and Incubators: An Entrepreneur’s Point of View

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Well, perhaps it’s time to consider an incubator/accelerator program: Programs like Silicon Valleys’ Y Combinator which essentially put entrepreneurs through a 3+ month startup boot camp. Really brings it home that most of the time, networking is everything. co-founder, Dan Dato.

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

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However, we''ve developed a formula of what, and how we look at deals, and have built out our own advisory network, where we use domain experts to vet deals out. We''re making investments, and are based in Santa Monica, and although we have a small team, we''re looking forward to becoming part of the local scene here in Silicon Beach.

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Lionsgate Kicks Off User Generated Content Effort

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Santa Monica-based entertainment studio Lionsgate reported this afternoon that it has linked with Massify, an online community for the film industry, to help develop feature film projects for the studio. Financial details of the effort--which the firms are billing the Lionsgate Incubator Project--were not disclosed.

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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.