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Inspiring College Entrepreneurship | With lessons from Y Combinator and Elon Musk

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The best person I know to talk about the growing entrepreneurship culture on campuses is Alex Zhang, a student at USC and the Managing Director of the student-run incubator LavaLab. Zhang shares his thoughts about Los Angeles, incubator programs, and more. What is LavaLab/what is the vision? What is LavaLab/what is the vision?

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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However Gmail is only private email conversations. We're definitely Los Angeles natives, but we got the opportunity to do TechStars. It's a casual setupĀit's not an incubator, it's not an accelerator, and we're not charging anyone for space. Alex Benzer: We're definitely looking at taking money later this year.

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Turning Thoughts into Productivity | The Fetchnotes Story

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We discuss productivity, emails, communication, and the dynamics of the team. One thing I’d noticed, there were definitely more idea sellers than buyers. We text, email, share, and post these quick to consume pieces of media. Which of course, is a much more ephemeral mode of communication than email.

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Top 30 Startup Technology and Product Posts for September 2010

SoCal CTO

Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Betaworks is more than an incubator, but they have shown that they can make the incubation model work with projects like bit.ly You should follow him on Twitter ( @jasonlbaptiste ) or say hi via email.

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Paul Kim | Alpha Trainer, Fitness, & LA Tech

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New companies are being raised and incubated to help build LAā€™s tech scene. You can even invite friends through Facebook, phonebook contacts, or email to help you be motivated in gaining your goals. That person will not only just look bad, there is also no muscle definition and he/she will look sickly thin.

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Startup Weekend LA | Recap February 2012

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Itā€™s also a very exciting time here in LA Tech with over 6 accelerators and incubators springing up over the past year. Definitely was a helpful talk and seemed to really made a huge difference — weā€™re very lucky to have Tyler here in the community and drop by. Thanks again Tyler Crowley!

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This Week in Venture Capital ā€“ Episode 4

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It seems the focus on “virtual&# goods has been both the demo of the consumer as well as the fact that by definition virtual goods have almost no marginal costs to the seller so giving a huge slice to the carrier (and Zong) isn’t a problem since actual costs are ~ $0. 15mm in Series A. Wildfire Interactive.