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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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We sat down with Steve to chat about what the Alliance is working on, and why he decided to champion the growth of the technology industry here. We sat down with Steve to chat about what the Alliance is working on, and why he decided to champion the growth of the technology industry here. Tell us what the Alliance is all about?

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Accelerator Crazy In Southern California

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What's the latest craze in startups in Southern Califonia? In just the last few weeks, at least five different incubation/acceleration efforts have booted up in the region. K5Launch , which was announced yesterday, is headed up by Amir Banafatemi, Ray Chan, David Cheng, and Kai Tao, four Southern California angel investors.

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Southern California Accelerator Report Card: Q1 2013

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There''s been a lot of activity over the past two years in the Southern California accelerator/incubator market, with numerous groups (Amplify, EvoNexus, K5, LaunchpadLA, MediaCamp, Science, StartEngine, and many, many others) looking to help entrepreneurs start and fund their companies. Title image courtesy Bigstock.

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Incubating LA's Startup Future At the USC Viterbi Startup Garage

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A few weeks ago, the University of Southern California announced a new startup incubator, the Viterbi Startup Garage ([link] backed by such notable investors as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the United Talent Agency. What''s the mission behind the new startup incubator? How did the incubator come about?

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Zuma Ventures: Creating A New Technology Startup Model

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David Carter and Allen Hurff are two startup veterans, who believe they have a new formula to help create early stage, technology companies, through their new "startup studio", Zuma Ventures (www.zumavc.com). How is this different than accelerator or incubator? We created a product that would allow you to print barcodes.

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What Mattered in 2012: Erik Rannala of MuckerLab

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For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. 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.

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

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We don''t spend a lot of time there, except that we''re active investors and bankers who are affected by what''s happening in the IPO market. That''s true of many Southern California ad-tech companies. That''s fueling lots of the activity we''re seeing now. There''s tons of activity, and lots of companies getting funded.