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Reflections on 2016: Lawrence Ng, OnRamp Fund

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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. Lawrence Ng: Our biggest news was growing our global incubator, OnRamp. It combines innovation and entertainment. You can see all of our holiday reflections here.

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Why an Atlanta-based Black influencer collective swapped their collab house for a studio

TechCrunch LA

The group says they took inspiration from similar community-oriented tech incubators in Atlanta like the Russel Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs , PROPEL Center and Gathering Spot , but Collab Studio will focus more specifically on the entertainment industry. Image Credits: Robiiiworld (Brandy Merriweather via BStarPR).

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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

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There are lots of incubators here-- practically every school or municipality has some kind of incubator--but they don't have an accelerator. The incubator isn't really as focused, and sometime might be more focused on low cost space. Those are two examples, we have about a dozen. Do you have mentors lined up?

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Tracky Launch Event and Those In Support of #VegasTech

Tech Zulu Event

For those who may think Las Vegas is just the home of Zappos, Conferences, and day/night entertainment, well you are right. Rick Duggan Director of Website Systems & Community Technology & Incubation Services at Zappos who gave a talk based around the VegasTech and the Downtown Project. Sarah Evans PR.

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Silicon Beach Fest: Catching Up With Kevin Winston

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For example, we had a keynote from Patrick Soon-Shiong, who talked about his new health incubator, and Frank Addante, at Rubicon Project, talking his ad-tech services. We''re showing people that we have the cool media-entertainment stuff, which is cool and great, and we love that. We have Chet Pipkin, talking about Belkin.

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Interview with Matt Kozlov, Techstars Space Accelerator

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For example, we have a company using autonomous drones for both aerial and terrestrial, GPS-denied harsh environments. For example, nuclear power plants and oil rigs. I have worked as an entrepreneur in mobile gaming and an executive in the entertainment industry, and worked at Yahoo and also as a management consulting.

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Interview with Greg Siegel, VidMe

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Greg Siegel: I had most recently been representing actors as an entertainment agent at Endeavor Agency, but I had started out in the Internet world way back in the nascent days of the Internet. An example is Ashton Kutcher, who really is the king of digital media right now, and was involved in building his production company.

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