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Venture firm M13 names former Techstars LA managing director, Anna Barber, as its newest partner

TechCrunch LA

Designed to be a collaborative startup company incubator alongside corporate partners, Launchpad focuses on developing new consumer tech businesses focused on M13’s main investment areas: health, food, transportation, and housing. Anna Barber, partner, M13. Image Credit: Raif Strathmann. .

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Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Impact entertainment “accelerator” inks deal with Netflix

TechCrunch LA

The companies did not disclose the financial terms of the agreement. The Imagine Impact vetting process involves both experienced readers and a natural language processing system that the talent incubator developed internally. ” Writers need to submit an idea and a writing sample from today through July 6. .

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2014 Was An Amazing Year for the Pasadena Angels

Steve Reich

4 Exits, including Bluebeam for $100mm. • $4.7mm in new funding for portfolio companies. • We’ve also been building relationships with incubators and other investors in the ecosystem. IP events have brought great focus to the area, and we’ve been glad to both attend and financially support their events. 20 New Angels joined.

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Tapping The Power Of The Crowd For Ideas, Advice and Funding, with JumpStartFund

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We spoke with Dirk Ahlborn , the companies CEO and founder, to learn more on how JumpStartFund wants to not only help companies raise money for their projects, but also tap into the crowd to help shape its ideas and business plan. It is one of the older incubators in Los Angeles, even though not a lot of people know about it.

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Maine’s Largest Hospital Launches Internal Health Tech Accelerator

Tech.Co

Questions of IP. In general, the way it works is that individual inventors are named as inventors on the patents, and then the IP would be licensed back by spin-off companies to further develop the technology, according to Monti. There have been a few failed companies and there is one currently incubating.

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Interview with Costin Tuculescu, Freebinar

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In recent years, one of the more common ways to share information, conduct training, or pitch your company to other has been through online, web-based webinar and conferencing. We spoke with Costin Tuculescu , CEO of Freebinar, about the firm, how it's reaching out to Dimdim users, and the background on the company.