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Wittlebee Launches, Headed by Sean Pervical, Backed by Science

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Sean Percival, best known for founding Los Angeles tech blog lalawag, in addition to his work as an executive at MySpace, has booted up a new effort--Santa Monica-based Wittlebee , a new, online subscription service for baby supplies. the digital business incubator/studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones.

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Clearstone Portfolio Firm Cetas Acquired By VMware

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Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures has had another exit in its portfolio, this time with the acquisition of Cetas , a developer of cloud data analytics software, by VMware. Cetas was incubated in Clearstone's Palo Alto offices by Sudhakar Muddu, a Ph.D. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Zuma Ventures: Creating A New Technology Startup Model

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How is this different than accelerator or incubator? David Carter: There is a lot of misunderstanding on what an incubator is, and what an accelerator is. When I was at Amplify, we had a lot of people wondering what an accelerator was, and how we differentiated from an incubator. I missed that in the beginning. READ MORE>>.

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CoFoundersLab Matches Entrepreneurs Scientifically

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They have partnered with Cross Campus to bring education and offline matchmaking events to Santa Monica quarterly. It all started with one Meetup in November 2010 in D.C. CoFoundersLab was created by Shahab Kaviani after he left an 8-year run at the successful startup HyperOffice. “I titled “Co-Founders Wanted.”

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Schmooze Your Way to Success at Schmoozd 3

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Back by popular demand Schmoozd 3 is set for this Thursday, July 29th 6-10 PM at Wokano in Santa Monica, CA. Tweetup.com - An auction-based advertising system from Internet incubator Idealab, which originally came up with the idea for search advertising in the 1990s when it launched GoTo.com.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers! Silver Sponsors.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

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OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers!