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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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Steve Poizner: The Alliance is a new nonprofit, whose mission it is to bring together a lot of the amazing, unique assets of Southern California. We are devoted to the mission of supercharging Southern California's technology ecosystem, and help it emerge as a world class technology hub by 2025.

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

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That''s true of many Southern California ad-tech companies. That pace has definitely slowed down a little bit. I think the incubators have a lot to do with it. an incubator in Singapore, and we do a dozen or so investments a year. The problem is diseconomy of scale. Their only option is an IPO.

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Los Angeles Accelerator Report Card: Too Early To Tell

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There's been a surge in startup accelerator activity in Los Angeles in the last year, as interest in starting a company in the region has grown, and a wide range of experienced entrepreneurs and investors have pitched in to help companies get to the next level. Of that, $97.47 in companies associated with digital studio Science Inc.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

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He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. On the SEO side of things, I'll definitely want to get your feedback on Browse My Stuff. How did you transition to entrepreneur? Actually, most of my earlier experience was with startups, so the transition was fairly simple.

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Interview with Joel Milne, RepairSmith, Daimler's Mobile Auto Repair Venture

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Milne is a serial entrepreneur, and last had been running ScoreBig. This idea actually was initially incubated at Daimler AG, the parent company of Mercedes Benz, and the idea came up in an incubation lab as something that would really disrupt the industry. So, whats next for you? RepairSmith is backed by Daimler AG.

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Accelerator To Exit In 14 Months, With Eli Portnoy of ThinkNear

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There's been a sudden surge in accelerator in Southern California, looking to help get startups off the ground and funded. Eli Portnoy: We were definitely not looking at acquisition opportunities. What advice would you give to other entrepreneurs, and which you learned from the whole experience? But, do they really help?

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Events and Networking in Los Angeles

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, February 23, 2007 Events and Networking in Los Angeles One of the issues I discussed in Innovation and Geography was that the geography and traffic in Los Angeles generally makes it more difficult for networking. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound.