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How Frost Venture Partners Is Incubating The Big Data Future

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Stuart Frost is head of Frost Venture Partners (www.frostvp.com), and the founder of DatAllegro, which he started in Orange County and eventually sold to Microsoft for $275M in 2008. he's been spinning out of his incubator. he's been spinning out of his incubator. What's the idea behind the incubator?

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Streamlining The Sports Recruiting Process with FieldLevel

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We spoke with co-founder Brenton Sullivan about the company''s platform, and how it''s hoping to transform the athletic recruiting process. Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes. We think it''s really powerful in our platform.

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9+ Studio Giving $110K in Funding For Game Developers To Shift To Consumer, Big Data & Wearable Computing Startups

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The 9+ incubator has already closed $2 million in funding and has already attracted gaming entrepreneurs eager to create a new breed of mobile services including gaming entrepreneur Jason Citron who developed the early iPhone hit Aurora Feint and the hugely popular OpenFeint platform. 2 million raised. Growth hackers.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Total Raised: $21.4mm. See: TechCrunch. Kontagent. -A

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A New Era For Entrepreneurs And Startups Has Begun

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Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). The elements include communications, mobile platforms, and location-based services. Smartphone apps can be built for less than $10K, so who needs an investor?

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Ted Dhanik | Engage:BDR, LA Tech & the Marketing Scene

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I left MySpace in 2008 to help MySpace to monetize its inventory better. To progress and be LA tech-focused, we started incubating ideas. First impression, a self-serve platform, and Blink, our ad serving technology, we both built in-house. Are incubating companies one of the main focuses of Engage:BDR?

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Plug and Play San Diego Finds Home in New Downtown Works Space

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Plug and Play San Diego, established in 2013 as a satellite of the Sunnyvale, CA-based incubator, has funneled 15 local startups through the Silicon Valley program after providing some coaching and other services in San Diego.