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LA Startup Report 2013 | A Rising Forecast

Tech Zulu Event

Be Great Partners , a Los Angeles technology incubator, has recently released a report on the startup community in LA and the information shows a positive growth for startups here in LA. Los Angeles is 3 rd in the global startup ecosystem, behind Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley.

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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

socalTECH

We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. And then, in 2003 I retired, and I became an angel investor. Those mentors are not just Bruce and I, although we are full time on this.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

Talent agencies CAA and WME are incubating start-ups. After years of traveling to Los Angeles once every few months, Timothy Draper, founder and a managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, says he now flies down to L.A. about twice a month—often enough that he bought a house in west Los Angeles this year. "I