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Science Launches Its Own SPAC

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Alpha this week, it priced a $270,000,000 initial public offering (IPO), which will trade on the Nasdaq Capital Market under the symbols SSAA and warrants as SSAAW. Alpha (SSAA). According to Science Strategic Acquisition Corp.

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

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Our interview this morning is with Joel Milne , the CEO of Los Angeles-based RepairSmith (www.repairsmith.com), a startup offering up mobile automobile repair. Joel Milne: The way this works, is a consumer can go to our website, get an online estimate or quote on a job they want done, and we try to provide real price transparency upfront.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

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Zong – mobile payments has been a very hot area over the past couple of years with the success and growth of both Boku and Zong. Boku and Zong focus mostly on mobile payments for virtual goods. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. VC Financings: 1.

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TechZulu Recaps: The Annual Startup Forecast

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In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. Richard Wolpert – Managing Director of Amplify.LA, startup incubator and Venture Advisor at Accel Partners. Peter Csathy takes the lead on this one.

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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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I then became and EIR at UC San Diego, and joined EvoNexus, the not-for-profit incubator run by the Irvine Company. It has reached a point where there really is a price to be paid for being here. My last company got acquired by Qualcomm, and Qualcomm wanted me to move to San Diego to run their emerging business portfolio.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

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OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets. Price: $15 (Early Bird). Event Details. to 9:30 p.m.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. For those patient enough to source great companies at reasonable prices and prepared to weather the next inevitable downturn, I believe firmly there will be economic rewards for discipline and patience. They compete on features, price and execution.