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What Mattered in 2012: Aber Whitcomb, io/LA

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Aber Whitcomb is a partner at startup co-working and incubation community io/LA , CTO of SGN , and former co-founder and CTO of MySpace. We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms.

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TYLT Labs' New Seed Fund And The Promise Of Silicon Beach

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Anyone can talk a good game, and put together a proforma that looks great, and there are lots of great looking ideas, and people can even all have filed a provisional patent. Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here. We''re really looking for that first and foremost.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator. At Microsoft, I was part of Bing Maps, which is Microsoft''s response to Google Maps. From there, we raised $600,000 plus to date, and recently revealed our app on the app store.

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The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns

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Share on Google+. look forward to learning more abt the companies incubating out of startup ucla as well as the 2nd class of startups from other accelerators that launched their first class earlier this year. It also won a number of key patents bit.ly/RiJCFI Share on Facebook. Share on Twitter. Share on LinkedIn. Michael Carney.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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Google was clear that they WOULD NOT go into this business. They were a juggernaut and Google was a small company. But obviously Google won the war. Mostly, Google just had way better organic results (“the loss leader&# ) so it was always preferred by consumers. That gave Google a huge cost advantage.