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What Mattered in 2012: Aber Whitcomb, io/LA

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For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. 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. Don't bet on any one platform.

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Accelerator To Exit In 14 Months, With Eli Portnoy of ThinkNear

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There's been a sudden surge in accelerator in Southern California, looking to help get startups off the ground and funded. We have refind our thesis around why mobile is so special, and how it ties into location, and have spent two years working on precise, location targeted ads in the industry. But, do they really help?

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

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What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Over the last year or so we''ve created Watsup, the easiest way to figure out what is happening around you, at any time. We''re in four major U.S.

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Interview with Nikhil Jain, Clean Green Guy

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One of the industries which has seen a lot of activity lately in Southern California is clean technology, with a large amount of investment activity and new company formation. The web site caters only to people in the green space. Nikhil Jain: We already have a list of deals, from Southern California, the rest of the U.S.,

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Interview with Rahul Sonnad, Geodelic

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We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. This runs on a number of platforms? How did the incubation part come about?

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

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Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Incubator: Amplify LA. Fun Fact: Their latest investment was into LA-based Daqri – the augmented reality platform that has been used for campaigns with Cadillac and MAXIM Magazine. E-Commerce: Nasty Gal.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

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Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Making Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Possible. Diamond Sponsor. Community Sponsors.

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