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MARCH 26, 2013

USC revealed this morning that it has created a new, startup accelerator on campus, the Viterbi Startup Garage , which will help students and alumni start technology companies in Los Angeles.

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

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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DECEMBER 28, 2012

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. 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. READ MORE>>.

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Technical Review Southern California Incubator High Tech 223

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 24, 2011

Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle.

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Incubator Startup Seed Funding Mentor 93

socalTECH

MAY 15, 2013

Peter Csathy , the CEO of San Diego''s Sorenson Media , and digital media veteran, has departed the company, and will head up a new legal and investment group formed by Manatt, Phelps & Phillips. Hale Boggs, who is well known to local entrepreneurs as one of the digital media- and tech-focused attorneys here.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

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. Peregrine Semiconductor, a semiconductor company I co-founded in 1990, became a publically traded company on NASDAQ on August 8th. Little ones matter.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2010

Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). The goal of most business incubators today is to strengthen the local economy, and commercialize new technologies. However, many research and technology parks also house incubation programs.

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Incubator Startup Seed Funding Mentor 93

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2017

An uncontrolled, raging fire in Ventura County--which started in Santa Paula last night around 6:45pm, and rapidly spread to more than 25,000 acres early on Tuesday morning--is directly impacting the high tech corridor in Ventura County. Residents were being directed to Readyventuracounty.org for updates and evacuation notices.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 19, 2010

EvoNexus is an incubator for early stage high tech companies in the San Diego area. Overview of EvoNexus application process and facility tour.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 15, 2011

The 10th Annual Techweek will be hosted once again at the award-winning Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County - California's largest high tech business incubator located in Altadena (near Caltech, JPL and other major research institutions).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The 10th Annual Techweek will be hosted once again at the award-winning Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County - California's largest high tech business incubator located in Altadena (near Caltech, JPL and other major research institutions).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The 10th Annual Techweek will be hosted once again at the award-winning Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County - California's largest high tech business incubator located in Altadena (near Caltech, JPL and other major research institutions).

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Although Los Angeles has become a hub for the high tech startup world, Surprisingly, one of the things which hasn't happened in the Los Angeles area is any huge, successful venture acceleration programs. Our mentors as we've built up this effort in LA are TechStars, Tech Wildcatters in Dallas, and Accelerator Labs in Chicago.

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Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

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DECEMBER 31, 2014

We''re continuing to feature reflections on the last year from movers and shakers in the local high tech community, and today have thoughts from Gerhard Apfelthaler , who is Dean of California Lutheran University''s School of Management , which has been very active in Ventura County helping to promote startup and entrepreneurial activity.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The 10th Annual Techweek will be hosted once again at the award-winning Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County - California's largest high tech business incubator located in Altadena (near Caltech, JPL and other major research institutions).

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Los Angeles Altadena Technology Angel 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The 10th Annual Techweek will be hosted once again at the award-winning Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County - California's largest high tech business incubator located in Altadena (near Caltech, JPL and other major research institutions).

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Los Angeles Altadena Technology Angel 100

socalTECH

MAY 22, 2009

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AUGUST 21, 2012

OCTANe , the Orange County-based organization helping to bolster the high tech industry and entrepreneurs, reported this morning that in the first half of 2012, companies participating in its startup accelerator have raised a total of $26.8M in funding.

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OCTANE Orange County High Tech Mentor 150

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

Erik Rannala: MuckerLab is a new startup accelerator, focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. First and foremost, we're focused on making companies become successful. At the time, that was high tech, and bricks were a combination of mud, hay, and muck.

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Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Business incubators for sharing services were all the rage back in the days of the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Incubators I hear mentioned most often include YCombinator , led by Paul Graham in Silicon Valley, and TechStars , located in Boston, Boulder, New York City, and Seattle.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Startup Seed Funding 86

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MAY 14, 2010

A lot of people had asked me why I was taking the job, since I was a commercial guy, had been a commercial general manager, and had been running companies for my whole career. Launchpad is a virtual incubator and accelerator, where we put companies in and give them quantitative and qualitative feedback and mentorship.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

This has been especially true for angels or seed investors as there is a new thesis that less capital is needed to start Internet companies so more money is being spent at this phase of the funding lifecycle. companies did not participate in the first phase and consequently were not in the running for all that followed. Sound familiar?

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

One of the most frequent questions from high tech startups is: where''s my exit? What''s interesting, is that in 2011, there were seven large ad-tech firms which had all planned to go public and hired bankers. Now, a new breed of companies is finally making it out, which has had a huge impact on valuations.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

I can think of many companies that waited too long to react to change, including Polaroid and Blockbuster , and were never able to recover. Don’t be lulled into a false sense of security by an initial innovation that has served your company well so far. Instill a sense of urgency in your business team.

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socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. Explain how your service works? The way we do that, is through bulletin boards.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 4, 2018

It doesn’t matter if you start a company in a coworking space, a dorm room or on your couch, the struggle to build a tech business in this day and age is real. For many founders, getting noticed by investors, potential customers, incubators and other companies, is a necessity to take your product to the next level.

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LATechDigest

AUGUST 3, 2019

Evan Spiegel exemplifies the creative, entrepreneurial spirit of the Los Angeles region, and the success of his company Snapchat has helped make Los Angeles synonymous with technology and successful tech startups. CBRE Group, Inc., Under the guidance of president Dianne F.

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Xconomy

JUNE 3, 2016

A company official told Xconomy the drug would be priced in line with standard of care enzyme replacement therapy, which costs around $300,000 per patient, per year. Contravir will pay $17 million in cash and 10 percent of its equity to Ciclofilin shareholders, but only if the company’s lead drug, CPI-431-32, hits certain milestones.

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San Diego Patents Acquisition News 62

Xconomy

JULY 13, 2016

Better edtech, perhaps in the form of next-generation MOOCs and other online training, might help people beset by the skills gap enter the high-tech workforce, which might help to slow rising inequality. But in the short term, videos and social media can also foment even more violence, as we saw in Dallas.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. What was the biggest news for you/your company this year?  It's been a tough year for many due to the pandemic; how have you or your company adapted to the business environment? 

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Southern California Technical Review Platform Organization 140

socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Every year, we feature the year end reflections of founders, CEOs, investors, and others in Southern California's high tech community. What was the biggest news for you/your company this year? It's been a tough year for many due to the pandemic; how have you or your company adapted to the business environment?

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