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APRIL 18, 2011

SharesPost--a spinout of Santa Monica's Brighthouse incubator run by Scott Painter and Greg Brogger--was the target of an article by the WSJ focused on how the firm screened investors joining the site. SharesPost said the article left readers "largely misinformed and our company unfairly maligned."

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Santa Monica Journal Incubator Screening 133

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APRIL 8, 2014

We''re making investments, and are based in Santa Monica, and although we have a small team, we''re looking forward to becoming part of the local scene here in Silicon Beach. It seems like that background matches well to the popularity of crowdsourced hardware on Kickstarter and other sites, do you play there? READ MORE>>.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

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JUNE 16, 2009

Santa Monica-based SharesPost , a new startup out of Scott Painter's BrightHouse incubator, said Tuesday morning that the firm has launched on online platform which will match buyers and sellers of private equity. Among features of the site are private company research, escrow serviecs, and electronic signatures.

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Equity CarsDirect Zag Incubator 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 15, 2009

Santa Monica-based SharesPost , which operates a secondary marketplace for privately held company shares, is expanding the amount of third party research on its market. SharesPost's site features in-depth analysis of privately held firms such as Facebook, Twitter, Tesla Motors, eHarmony, and other popular privately held firms.

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Research eHarmony Santa Monica Incubator 133

socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Santa Monica-based entertainment studio Lionsgate reported this afternoon that it has linked with Massify, an online community for the film industry, to help develop feature film projects for the studio. Financial details of the effort--which the firms are billing the Lionsgate Incubator Project--were not disclosed.

Content 113

Content Santa Monica Entertainment Hollywood 113

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JUNE 24, 2010

Gil Elbaz , one of the founders of Applied Semantics , the often unheralded Santa Monica-based creator of what is now Google's AdSense product, is one of the angel investors in San Francisco-based Triggit , a developer of a real time ad bidding platform, it was revealed today.

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Santa Monica Google Incubator Advertising 133

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA). 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA). Well now is your chance to find out thanks to upStart.LA.

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Incubator Santa Monica Idealab Social Media 40

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Santa Monica-based Slingshot Labs , the startup incubator headed by MySpace co-founders Josh Berman and Colin Digiaro, officially rolled out its first web site this morning, DailyFill. The new site is the latest in what seems to be a surge of celebrity-focused content sites. READ MORE>>.

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News Buzznet Santa Monica Incubator 100

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

I moved to the Santa Monica office of Microsoft Consulting Service. There are lots of incubators here-- practically every school or municipality has some kind of incubator--but they don't have an accelerator. The incubator isn't really as focused, and sometime might be more focused on low cost space.

Startup 221

Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

They have partnered with Cross Campus to bring education and offline matchmaking events to Santa Monica quarterly. Together they envisioned a Match.com type of site for entrepreneurs to find each other and make things happen. The online site looks at personality assessments, compatibility, industry, distance, and roles.

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Startup Santa Monica CTO Hire 87

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

Sam Teller: Launchpad is an accelerator in Santa Monica. Last year, I joined up with Mark, and we raised a small fund and opened up an office in Santa Monica, one block from the beach. We don't get excited about derivative businesses, like yet another daily deal site, or another niche flash sales site.

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Class Mentor Startup Santa Monica 261

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

Erik Rannala: MuckerLab is a new startup accelerator, focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. I think there is also some density of technology companies in certain areas, particularly around Santa Monica, which is helpful. Erik, thanks for the time. READ MORE>>.

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Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

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MARCH 8, 2016

Santa Monica-based Tuition.IO (tuition.io) has s created a way for companies to both help their employees tackle that mound of student debt, as well as attract better and more loyal employees. I eventually ended up here in 2012, where the company came out of an incubator here called Launchpad LA.

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Help Startup Platform Santa Monica 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2010

Back by popular demand Schmoozd 3 is set for this Thursday, July 29th 6-10 PM at Wokano in Santa Monica, CA. Tweetup.com - An auction-based advertising system from Internet incubator Idealab, which originally came up with the idea for search advertising in the 1990s when it launched GoTo.com.

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Santa Monica LAVA Advertising Idealab 71

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MARCH 4, 2021

I had been seed investing and incubating businesses, and was sitting with a friend of mine, John Miller, who ran Caliburger, which is a 35 location burger chain, which is exporting the California lifestyle, much like In-N-Out does. We could have raised more, but apparently, we crashed SeedInvest's entire site on the last day of the campaign.

Startup 113

Startup Venture Capital Capital Custom 113

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. A demand side advertising platform which allows advertisers to bid on individual ad impressions in real time, based on the site and who would see it. Current round: $4. See: TechCrunch.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

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MARCH 5, 2012

the business incubator and studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones. Dog owners can browse through the site, and find the best options for their pet. So, back in November and December we started putting together the site you see, which enables everyone to do this. Aaron Hirschorn: It will be a fully integrated site.

Technical Review 164

Technical Review Startup Sites Malibu 164

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MARCH 5, 2012

the business incubator and studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones. Dog owners can browse through the site, and find the best options for their pet. So, back in November and December we started putting together the site you see, which enables everyone to do this. Aaron Hirschhorn: It will be a fully integrated site.

Technical Review 160

Technical Review Startup Sites Malibu 160

socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. Are you transacting sales through the site yet? Explain how your service works?

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Startup Zag Venture Capital Equity 124

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Community Sponsors.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. Of course, you should monitor social media such as Twitter, the social news sites, Facebook, etc. What are you working on now?

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Community Sponsors.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The narrow, 3-mile strip of land that runs from Santa Monica through Venice, and is now stretching down to Playa Vista, has been dubbed "Silicon Beach" due to the heavy concentration of Internet companies and executives there. Talent agencies CAA and WME are incubating start-ups. registerAd(newsReelAd,AdTile;iframe;?width=230;height=70;size=230x70;zone=article_email;site=interactive.wsj.com;adclass=A;meta=;category=;frequency=;cacheId=;classEnabled=true;classValue=adSummary;

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Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

I quickly came to realize that Im not the "slow-growth" guy, Im not the kind of guy that can do things part-time (as in the incubator model). Every time I try one of these slow-growth or incubator type models, Ive always ended up jumping into one of them and going full force. Please leave your comments on this post.

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Advertising Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development 40