socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

We spoke earlier with Cody Simms , Executive Director of Techstars America and who leads the program in LA, to hear more about why the startup accelerator operator is opening up its third accelerator here, why Los Angeles has turned out to be one of the leading sources for startups across its network, as well as Cody's advice to entrepreneurs.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

What''s interesting, is that in 2011, there were seven large ad-tech firms which had all planned to go public and hired bankers. 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. For a similar company, with the same metrics and stage, valuations had been tiny.

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MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

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