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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

Not to mention the granddaddy of them all and arguably the first firm to properly do an accelerator – Idealab. And then of course our friends at TechStars launched an accelerator in collaboration with our friends at Disney so now there was six. With the success of Idealab in the 90’s every city was building out incubators.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

Tech Zulu Event

Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. Providing more than just money, TCA brings connections, knowledge, mentoring and operational assistance to bold early-stage entrepreneurs with game-changing ideas.

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upStart.LA Breakdown | Accelerators and Incubators: An Entrepreneur’s Point of View

Tech Zulu Event

Rafi Gordon , founder of StyleSpot (an Idealab company), a personalized shopping engine combined with high quality editorial publications. And of course, the ladies come after you succeed (j/k). But instead of promises of booze and bitches, you get a class of highly motivated entrepreneurs that truly looking to strike gold.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

Tech Zulu Event

Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. Providing more than just money, TCA brings connections, knowledge, mentoring and operational assistance to bold early-stage entrepreneurs with game-changing ideas.

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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

Tech Zulu Event

Friday evening, August 19th, rolled around and Startup Weekend LA was underway with attendees showing up at Coloft in Santa Monica around 6:00 pm and the classic Idealab keg there to quench everyone’s thirst. If Avesta sees someone drinking Coloft coffee (organic of course), he quickly asks if they’ve sold anything. Rob Maigret.