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Reflections on 2016: Lawrence Ng, OnRamp Fund

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This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. Today's contribution is from Lawrence Ng , serial entrepreneur who, last year, founded OnRamp Fund , a $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups. It combines innovation and entertainment.

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Interview with Matt Kozlov, Techstars Space Accelerator

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Matt Kozlov: We created this program, because there has been lots of recent advances in the growth of the commercial, military, and civil space economy here in our backyard in Southern California. I've done all kinds of different things across many different sectors across Southern California.

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Interview with Howard Marks, Start Engine

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Are you an entrepreneur hoping to startup a company in the Los Angeles area? Southern California apparently has no shortage of investors, entrepreneurs, and others eager to help budding entrepreneurs. Howard Marks: We're a startup accelerator, which will help entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days.

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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. to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology.

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Silicon Beach at USC 2013 | Entrepreneurial Inspiration

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Big crowd of entrepreneurs, professors, students, and established professionals. All in a room at the University of Southern California Silicon Beach Event on September 18th, 2013. I wanted to connect LA’s incredible entrepreneurs with the larger business community and with the resources of USC.”.

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Interview with Laurence Sotsky, The OIX

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Sotsky is an experienced entrepreneur, who last founded and led Hopscotch; The OIX is backed by Brett Markinson, the angel investor who has backed such companies as Hautelook and LowerMyBills. The way we got started was in the entertainment industry. The first time, I founded a company called Hopscotch, in sports and entertainment.

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Interview with Ken Rutkowski, The Founder Institute

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The Founder Institute (www.founderinstitute.com), an entrepreneurial training program that originally launched by Adeo Ressi in Silicon Valley, recently announced that it is setting up shop in Southern California, with branches both in San Diego and Los Angeles. Do entrepreneurs need to have a particular idea in mind to participate?

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