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Hub 101 Talks. Dr. Beth Seidenberg, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers

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Since joining Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers in 2005, Beth has incubated five companies and was the founding CEO of two.

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Mentors-Plus-Capital Programs – Intense Incubation

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By Jim Flowers A few months ago, Marty invited me to comment on business incubation and what a startup company ought to expect from an incubator. Paul Graham built the mold at Y Combinator , which he founded back in 2005. Tags: entrepreneurs incubators relationships startups. Relationships , I said back then.

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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. The firm said Steuer will work on new company creation, particularly in the new mobile applications area.

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Reflections on 2019: Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures

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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. When I started my first company in 1997 during the middle of the dot com Gold Rush, there were 8-10 meaningful companies in the LA ecosystem. After leaving News Corp.,

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

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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. If you go back to 2005 and 2006 and look at a company which would have a $5M pre- then, it''s now $8 to $10M, all else equal. What''s your perspective on where fundraising is for startups here?

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Interview with Jamie Siminoff, Unsubscribe.com

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I had been doing some angel investing, and incubating several projects. Not everyone had a spam filter, and lots of companies didn't have a spam filter in place until 2003, 2004, or 2005. I had just sold my last company, Phonetag, and was starting to look at doing new things.