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Interview with Dave Eastman, Viterbi Startup Garage

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For today's interview, we spoke to Dave Eastman, the Director of the Viterbi Startup Garage, a startup incubator that is run by the University of Southern California, out of its location in Marina Del Rey. How are you different from other startup incubators, etc? It's not entirely exclusive, however.

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Interview with Kevin Hell, EvoNexus

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A couple of weeks ago, twelve companies moved into the new downtown San Diego, EvoNexus incubator--which is run by CommNexus. Kevin Hell: What makes EvoNexus unique, is that it is--as far as we know--the only completely free, no-strings-attached incubator in the nation. Once they pass that, they get into the incubator.

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Noramay Cadena, Make In LA: Accelerating Hardware Startups

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We invest time and money into helping them develop their ideas, and help develop those companies and the entrepreneurs as leaders. What's the difference between an incubator, Maker space, and other accelerators and what you do? percent equity. Noramay Cadena: We do.

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Clearstone's Sumant Mandal On Exits, Opportunities

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If you about it, their customers have begun opening up their purses, which have been kind of tied up in the last 18-24 months, they haven't been investing in new technology or products, and equities are getting more expensive. The founders ran them, with the founder's ideas, but we supported them and took them to customers.

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Veteran LA law firm opens a Silicon Beach office and launches a pro-bono “Precelerator”

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“Rather, we will provide a platform for them to get interim office space and sophisticated legal services, and to ultimately grow their ideas from business concept to funded startup. The idea is simply to foster the community and support up-and-coming entrepreneurs. socalcto socaltech Follow @pandodaily.

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Interview with Amir Banifatemi and Kai Tao, K5Launch

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K5Launch (www.k5launch.com) is modeled after the successful Y-Combinator and TechStars acceleration programs, and invests equity, provides mentors, and runs a three month program to get very early stage startups off the ground. They're aimed at the big idea. Are there specific kinds of companies you're hoping to see in the incubator?

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Interview with Nikhil Jain, Clean Green Guy

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We spoke with Nikhil, to hear why he thinks the site is important for green technology companies and investors, as well as how the effort is related to his own incubation firm, Artilient Labs. Let's start with an overview of Clean Green Guy. What is the site all about? Do you have any investors yourself?