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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. That was five or six years ago, 2005 or so. I've also been involved in ValueLogic software.

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

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One of the most frequent questions from high tech startups is: where''s my exit? I think the incubators have a lot to do with it. an incubator in Singapore, and we do a dozen or so investments a year. Siemer & Associates runs its annual conference next week to delve into the same topics.