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Silicon Beach at USC 2013 | Entrepreneurial Inspiration

Tech Zulu Event

Pelv-Ice is a pelvic support device for post-partum mothers and a recent winner of the Accelerating Innovating Mentoring (AIM) 2013 incubator and pitch competition. The interviewer, David Cohen, Senior Editor of Features at Variety , led the chat by asking Cheng about the media industry, advertisements, and the future of the market.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

If you create a business and start building products and go into an incubator or raise angel/seed money and don’t think about Market Size and Market Structure I only have one question: Why? It is Blockbuster video in the dawn of Netflix. Will a third-party pay (advertisers, data companies)? Efficiency? Will the user pay?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

the Rubicon Project (Internet Advertising Technology) Status: Pre-Launch Visit the Rubicon Project Website Startup 5.0: Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Incubation 3. I started dabbling with a few ideas around online advertising, search engines and other random projects.

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7 Rules For Innovations That Produce Dominant Players

Startup Professionals Musings

Hoffman should know, as an icon in the Silicon Valley, having educated and trained hundreds of startup founders as the CEO of “ Founders Space ,” designated by Inc.com as one of the top ten incubators and accelerators in the world. Examples of being first include Netflix for movies and TV and Redfin for real estate.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

Last November, the Web-search giant opened a flashy new office in Venice to focus on engineering, sales and advertising; the company will lease close to a quarter-million square feet in the neighborhood by 2014. Talent agencies CAA and WME are incubating start-ups. Advertise Locally on WSJ.com. Advertise Locally.