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The Complete Guide To Southern California Accelerators and Incubators, Part II

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In recent months, a dozen accelerators and incubators have emerged in the Southern California area, looking to help take the new generation of technology startups to funding and beyond. However, with the proliferation of incubators, the difficulty in figuring out. Part II: The In-house Incubators. What is an in-house incubator?

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Current round: $4.

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Interview with Greg Brogger, SharesPost

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Companies we've selected are those that are the most exciting, and high profile, that people will want to invest in. Can you talk about a bit about BrightHouse, and how this company came out of that incubation effort? We co-founded Zag together, and I was the COO of CarsDirect.

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