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Aber Whitcomb is a partner at startup co-working and incubation community io/LA , CTO of SGN , and former co-founder and CTO of MySpace. At io/LA we launched a new 8000 sq/ft co-work and incubator space in Hollywood. Aside from the theoretical stuff, 2012 has been a year of disruption in many areas of technology.
Today, we're featuring Erik Rannala , founder of MuckerLab , the startup accelerator focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?
The Tech Coast Angels said today that it has totalled up its investments for the first half of 2012, and found that it invested $4,571,000 in direct investments--as part of $10M in funding--for 17 companies. The group said that investments were fairly consistent compared with the same period in 2011, when it invested $4.4M in 17 companies.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012 -- Business Incubation Panel. Panel includes Stan Tomsic, Business Incubation Network of Southern California; Mark Lieberman, Business Technology Center of LA County; Joey Briglio, Ventura Ventures Technology Center; moderated by John Peate, Principle of Peate Ventures. See [link] (more)
Wednesday, March 21, 2012 -- The Business of Incubating. Business Incubators, Business Accelerators and Co-Work Spaces. MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast. Your Workspace Matters!
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 -- Milton Chang, Ph.D., Managing Director, Incubic Management (a venture capital fund in Mountain View, CA). Entrepreneurship Course, 2012 Guest Speaker Lectures, Henry Samueli School of Engineering, UC Irvine. Free and open to the public.
Biggest new for CommNexus / EvoNexus: EvoNexus incubator companies reached the $95M in capital raised and two companies were acquired. Peregrine Semiconductor, a semiconductor company I co-founded in 1990, became a publically traded company on NASDAQ on August 8th. On Nov 27th I participated in ringing opening bell at NASDAQ in NY.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 -- Learn about the new LA incubators/accelerators. So much so that we are going to start 2012 with a big bang with the LeanLA incubator/accelerator event. I don't know if you guys noticed but incubators have been popping up in LA like mushrooms after a rainstorm in the last few months.
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Peter Pham, of Los Angeles technology studio/incubator Science Inc., Some of the highlights from this week from socalTECH's video section , where we're currently featuring community videos from and about local startups: Peter Pham of Science Inc. with Mario Andretti. apparently likes not just his startups to move fast, but also his cars.
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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. 24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start.
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Thursday, March 1, 2012 -- LA CEOs, an education and support group for CEOs presents: VCs, Angels, Accelerators and Incubators. This presentation will address the latest trends and differences in VCs, Angels, Accelerators and Incubators.
Thursday, August 30, 2012 -- TechCrawl. s like a bar crawl, but with startup/Accelerator/Incubator offices instead of bars. Each venue will host a group of developers, designers, entrepreneurs and other startups in their office for 45 minutes or so then feel free to move on to the next stop. See [link] (more)
Thursday, May 3, 2012 -- How to Raise Capital for Your Startup. Includes a detailed review of local incubators, vc's and angels. An intensive 3-hour course on how to think about, plan for, prepare and execute a capital raise for your startup. Taught by Jon Funk, a 25-year LA vc veteran. See [link] (more)
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Saturday, October 20, 2012 -- UCLA CS Majors -- You're invited to the first ever 24hr UCLA Hack Olympics! HackUCLA is hosting a 24-hour hackathon on October 20th-21st, sponsored by UCLA alums and the top LA startup incubators. The event will be held just off campus at Originate Labs (Wilshire and Veteran).
Friday, June 22, 2012 -- Digital LA - Silicon Beach Fest, June 21-23. We're teaming up with west side studios, venues, incubators, and startups to plan the first ever Silicon Beach Fest!
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Thursday, May 10, 2012 -- Startups Uncensored #26. Prior to BeachMint, Josh was the President of Slingshot Labs, a division of News Corporation, is a web incubator dedicated to building new Internet companies as well as a co-founder and the chief operating officer of MySpace.com. How To Pitch To Investors w/the founders of BeachMint.
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Thursday, June 7, 2012 -- Vator Splash LA. These influencers will give you insights into how they think when it comes to investments and they'll also talk about their changing investment strategies in light of the emergence of super angels, angels, micro-VCs and incubators. See [link] (more)
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M&A is a common way of acquiring new products and services, without the incubation time of building and testing the product. It may sound easy, but requires tremendous effort to document every process, establish vendor relationships, and monitor all stages of every implementation. Merge with or acquire another business.
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Saturday, June 23, 2012 -- Digital LA - Silicon Beach Fest, June 21-23. We're teaming up with west side studios, venues, incubators, and startups to plan the first ever Silicon Beach Fest!
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TechZulu is proud to announce that we are a sponsor of the Variety 2012 Venture Capital & New Media Summit and will be there in full force bringing you all the action. based start-up incubators, and former CEO for Myspace. You all remember that one summit, you know the one where Kate Middleton and Prince William attended.
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