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Idealab Boosts Team

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Pasadena-based Idealab , the startup business incubator founded by Bill Gross, announced this morning that it has added Andy Steuer to its team. He also was an investor in angel fund Andojo. The firm said Steuer will work on new company creation, particularly in the new mobile applications area. READ MORE>>.

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Reflections on 2019: Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures

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Personal mobility and transportation innovation are absolutely massive issues for citiesespecially Los Angelesand we watch the categories closely. Twenty-two years later, the tech presence here has not only grown, but the city is now home to dozens of accelerators and incubators for startups. in 2005 for $680M.

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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

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Although Los Angeles has become a hub for the high tech startup world, Surprisingly, one of the things which hasn't happened in the Los Angeles area is any huge, successful venture acceleration programs. And then, in 2003 I retired, and I became an angel investor. That was five or six years ago, 2005 or so.

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Interview with Cody Simms, Techstars LA

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This morning, Techstars (www.techstars.org), the startup accelerator which has had great success in spreading its approach to helping to get startups to the next stage of their life�usually, funding�announced it has opened up its third accelerator in Los Angeles, Techstars LA. Tell us about this new program you have running in Los Angeles?

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Interview with Jamie Siminoff, Unsubscribe.com

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To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com , an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. in funding from Charles River Ventures, First Round Capital, DFJ Frontier, and angel investors.

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Veteran LA law firm opens a Silicon Beach office and launches a pro-bono “Precelerator”

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billion in 2005, and also currently represents Rdio, Beats Electronics, Riot Games, Ad.ly, Redpoint Ventures, and several other prominent private and publicly traded clients. socalcto socaltech The firm made a name for itself representing Skype from formation in 2003 through its ultimate sale to eBay for $2.6 Follow @pandodaily.

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

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I think the incubators have a lot to do with it. It continues to be somewhat surprising to me to see the number of angels who have been entering this space. There have been a lot of new angel investors coming out of the woodwork, and lots of companies getting pretty good funding and valuation.