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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

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There are lots of incubators here-- practically every school or municipality has some kind of incubator--but they don't have an accelerator. That was five or six years ago, 2005 or so. The incubator isn't really as focused, and sometime might be more focused on low cost space.

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Interview with Cody Simms, Techstars LA

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Cody Simms: Obviously, I live here in LA, and I have been since 2005. One could argue that in 2010, 2011, and 2012, that growth was in the video and entertainment area. As you mention, this is the third (or fourth, if you could the former Walt Disney Accelerator) Techstars accelerator in LA � why the decision to run another one here?

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

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Seventeen lawyer regional firm Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP has represented digital media, internet, technology, consumer electronics, and entertainment companies and investment funds out of its Sherman Oaks office since its formation in 2002.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. LP contributions to VC firms shrunk from 2000 and by 2005-2008 had stabilized to around $30 billion per year. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.