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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

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which became Softbank Marketing, selling ads for Yahoo before Yahoo had its own salesforce. So I got started in the tech and internet world very early stage. I've also worked with startups in Southern California, including TouchCommerce, and I was with them when they were on their first round of funding.

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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit FAST

Eric Greenspan

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. It’s been an amazing experience so far, but the best part are the relationships I’ve built since getting started. Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo!

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Social Networking Addiction Bears Fruit

Eric Greenspan

I have vanity urls setup at just about every site on the web. It’s been an amazing experience so far, but the best part are the relationships I’ve built since getting started. Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo!

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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Southern California has had its share of new startup accelerators launch in the last few months, however, few people here have actually experienced an accelerator firsthand. We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. After TechStars, how did you end up in LA?

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

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It seems like that background matches well to the popularity of crowdsourced hardware on Kickstarter and other sites, do you play there? 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.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

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NAME Yahoo. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. Talent agencies CAA and WME are incubating start-ups. COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. NAME Facebook. SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. COMPANY GOOG COMPANY|GOOG. NAME Google. SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. COMPANY YHOO COMPANY|YHOO. NAME Microsoft.