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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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What You Missed On Your Holiday Vacation, SoCal Technology Edition

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How to find a startup mentor. In our features section: Interview with Blair Harrison of Frequency. 9 Ways socalTECH Can Help You With Your New Year's Resolutions. Southern California's Most Popular Tech Stories.

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UCSB Tops Harvard & Wharton In Startup Wars

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A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! The company was acquired by Becton, Dickinson and Company during August of 2012, for approximately $65 million. Want to be an entrepreneur? Don''t go to Wharton or Harvard.

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Will Crowdfunding Replace Angel And VC Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

According to articles on Entrepreneur last year, there are now almost 1,000 crowdfunding platforms in existence, currently estimated to add more than $65 billion and 270,000 jobs to the economy. The primary challenge seems to be that the crowdfunding term is used to encompass so many different concepts that everyone is confused.

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Pipeline Fellowship | Raising Women to Become Investors

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There were only 22% women who invested in 2012. We have three main components: education, mentoring, and practice. In mentoring, we match experienced angel investors with, what I like to call them, “angels-in-training” so they can share the lessons learned. There are a lot of mentoring programs out there.

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