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What Mattered in 2012: Kevin Winston, Digital LA

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The biggest news for Digital LA this year has been creating and spearheading Silicon Beach Fest, LA's first startup entertainment community festival in Santa Monica and Venice in June, 2012. This past year 2012 was all about forming teams, picking players, and choosing uniforms.

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TechZulu Presents 2012 Startup Forecast | Featuring Science, Tech Coast Angels, Amplify, StartEngine, upStart.LA

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TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2012. Mike is actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member. Venue Sponsor.

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Launchpad LA Gears Up For New Class

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Los Angeles-based Launchpad LA , the business mentoring and acceleration program which has been spearheaded by Mark Suster and Adam Lilling, looks to be gearing up for its third class. According to the group's web site, it will kick off the next class in November 2011, and continue until early spring 2012.

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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

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As shown below, it was recently ranked as the fifth most active metropolitan area in the US, in terms of venture deals and dollars, on a per capita basis. The company was acquired by Becton, Dickinson and Company during August of 2012, for approximately $65 million.

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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

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At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. Our founder, Yves Sisteron, himself was an entrepreneur earlier in his career and has been a mentor to us all at VC having backed too many billion dollar exits to name. I stayed close. We watched together.

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Meritful Wants To Help Students Showcase Their Wit Online

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A new startup Meritful, out of Michigan Univeristy and accelerated and funded through Ann Arbor SPARK has launched into public beta to unite both students and mentors or even teachers. Meritful is a professional network for students and mentors. If you are a teacher or mentor, Meritful helps you run projects and engage with students.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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He co-founded a prominent accelerator in Los Angeles called MuckerLab , that has produced a number of impressive companies and he mentored more than 20 of them. Natural mentors – a desire to help. It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion.