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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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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. 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.

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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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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. When I saw what BuddyTV is working on and how long they’ve been the market (since 2005) I realized that this has huge potential to help disrupt the television market.