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DECEMBER 21, 2012

Cal-X Stars Business Accelerator , a startup accelerator group which has been ramping up in Santa Monica, said Friday that it is planning to present its class of medtech companies in San Francisco as part of the Founder Club DEMO day.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

Sean Percival, best known for founding Los Angeles tech blog lalawag, in addition to his work as an executive at MySpace, has booted up a new effort--Santa Monica-based Wittlebee , a new, online subscription service for baby supplies. the digital business incubator/studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones.

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Santa Monica Startup Commerce Incubator 217

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I recently wrote a blog post about why I believe that startup teams in close proximity perform better. Uh, I guess he won’t be co-sponsoring a technology lab in LA with me then? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised – I got a similar lukewarm reaction when we started Launchpad LA and that seems to be going pretty well.

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Startup Venture Capital Incubator Entrepreneur 285

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MARCH 27, 2013

Hollywood-based io/LA , the high tech and creative incubator and coworking space, has shut down, the first loss of one of Southern California's new crop of high tech gathering spaces. A number of companies which were located in io/LA have now moved to coworking space CrossCampus in Santa Monica, according to those companies.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

There seems to a perpetual shortage of local venture capital investors in the region, despite the huge growth in startup activity here, particularly along Silicon Beach. 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.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Cross Campus , the coworking space operator which is home to many of LA's startups, told its customers today that it is planning to open up a new location in Downtown LA starting in April. The coworking operator already has locations in Old Pasadena and Santa Monica. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 31, 2013

It was standing room only at StartEngine 's Demo Day Wednesday afternoon, held at Santa Monica's Cross Campus , as the startup accelerator launched eight of its latest startups into the world, after a 90 day process of mentoring, honing their business model, and heads down development. It's unclear. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The latest startup out of Santa Monica-based technology incubator Science, Inc. The new startup is headed by Steve Goldstein, the former Senior Vice President and General Manager for ProvideCommerce. Don't know what to make for dinner? The new company has raised $500K from Battery Ventures. READ MORE>>.

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Services GRP Partners Santa Monica Incubator 159

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APRIL 24, 2017

Santa Monica-based The Preccelerator Program , which is run by Stubbs Alderton & Markiles, LLP, has announced its sixth class, saying it has added five startups to its startup accelerator program.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Although Los Angeles has become a hub for the high tech startup world, Surprisingly, one of the things which hasn't happened in the Los Angeles area is any huge, successful venture acceleration programs. Dan Dato: The quickest way to describe it is it's a Techstars-like, YCombinator-like startup accelerator. What is Upstart.la?

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Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

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MAY 10, 2018

Behzad Kianmahd is the co-founder of Los Angeles coworking space Cross Campus , which is one of the major centers of startup activity in Silicon Beachand also involved as co-founder and lead investor in a brand new, venture capital fund, TAU Ventures (www.ideasimmersion.com/tau-ventures/). It was the Summer of 2016, if I'm not mistaken.

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El Segundo Southern California Startup Santa Monica 100

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The Los Angeles area has seen a surge in the last month in companies and organizations looking to bolster entrepreneurial activity and startups in Southern California. Joining that surge last week in startup activity was Science, Inc. One, is we'll come up wit our own ideas, and work with really early stage entrepreneurs in-house.

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Incubator Startup Commerce Los Angeles 196

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JUNE 20, 2014

We spoke with Kevin Winston, the organizer of Silicon Beach Fest (www.siliconbeachfest.com), which is currently going on in Santa Monica and runs through Saturday, about the energy here in Southern California, as well as a little bit about what''s going on with the event this year. The third thing we have is a startup showcase.

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Santa Monica Conference Belkin Southern California 205

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Tecca (www.tecca.com) launched a consumer electronics, consumer information service, backed by Fuse Capital and Best Buy. We caught up with Mickie Rosen , the firm's CEO, about the company, its links to Best Buy, and how it was incubated out of Fuse Capital. What was behind that decision?

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Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

One of the biggest complaints you hear from both entrepreneurs and investors in Los Angeles, is the lack of a credible, visible startup accelerator in the Los Angeles area. We caught up with Erik to hear more about MuckerLab, and its efforts to grow the Los Angeles technology ecosystem. Erik, thanks for the time.

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Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

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JULY 13, 2009

Santa Monica-based SharesPost , which has created on online marketplace for sellers and buyers of private company stock, reported to its users late Friday that the firm now has sales of LinkedIn, Linden Lab, Tesla Motors, and SugarCRM going into escrow. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 24, 2016

Santa Monica-based HomeHero , the home care technology and services startup founded by Kyle Hill and Mike Townsend, has linked up with Cedars-Sinai to launch a new program called Safe Transition Home.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

It runs our proprietary technology, and it's a platform that people can plug into. How did you go from running a venture fund to starting Miso? We were sitting at Huckleberry Cafe in Santa Monica, and I asked him if labor was a big problem for his business. So, with the last funds out of my fund, I started Miso Robotics.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

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. With Yahoo!,

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. 24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2012. There will be plenty of FREE Pizza and drinks!

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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Santa Monica-based Science , the new startup creation and "technology studio" created by former Myspace CEO Mike Jones, said today that it has brought on Peter Pham as a Partner at the company. Pham was most recently Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Trinity Ventures.

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JUNE 20, 2012

There is a large menu of startup accelerators in the Los Angeles, but one of more established efforts in the area is LaunchpadLA ([link] The effort actually started as an informal mentoring program, but has grown and expanded to follow the accelerator model. Sam Teller: Launchpad is an accelerator in Santa Monica.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

The biggest culprit to a startup failure is a dysfunctional founding team. They have partnered with Cross Campus to bring education and offline matchmaking events to Santa Monica quarterly. CoFoundersLab was created by Shahab Kaviani after he left an 8-year run at the successful startup HyperOffice. “I

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Entrepreneur Santa Monica Startup CTO Hire 87

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APRIL 10, 2012

One of the most original, subscription startups to come out of Southern California's tech accelerator boom emerged last week, looking to disrupt not just another retail sector or e-commerce category, but something else entirely: the airline industry. How did this all start? The startup incubator actually found us.

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Startup Mentor Technical Review Santa Barbara 240

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DECEMBER 17, 2012

Like everything in the 11,000 square foot space in the heart of Santa Monica, this wasn't done on a whim. Memberships at CrossCampus start at $99 per month for Associate Members and go all the way up to $650 per month for a dedicated desk in the Founder Room. Take the lack of doors for instance.

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Santa Monica Startup Design Technology 164

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Mike Jones may be known for his most recent role as CEO of MySpace , but this Internet entrepreneur is no stranger to the startup world. He’s had multiple exits and also advises private startups (his company Userplane sold to AOL for nearly $40 million and Tsavo Media drew a cool $75 million from Cyberplex ).

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Hollywood Userplane Tsavo Santa Monica 101

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APRIL 20, 2010

Over the last few months, Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures (www.clearstone.com) has had a number of high profile exits in its portfolio. Sumant Mandal: Companies with a very specific, technology advantage, with products that are focused on markets that people have a belief in, and are growth markets. It's part of the job.

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Clearstone Idealab Incubator Invest 140

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

Back in 2006/07 when I sold my company and then worked at Salesforce.com there were very few options in SF for technology folk to build their careers at big, growing companies. Technology innovation doesn’t occur in a vacuum. And sci-fi writers are but one example of the way society impacts technology. And make-up artists.

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Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

In fact, he’s personally started 34 businesses and run 17 of them. He started a car washing business as a way to be able to drive other people’s fancy cars. So while it started more about finding solutions to get him driving cars more or logging airline miles he also focuses on big, industry-changing ideas.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Mike continues to be actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Thank you all for your continued support in highlighting the many innovative technologies emerging in Southern California! The Hybrid Group is passionate about making useful things with technology.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Always looking to provide the very best for our community so that you may learn and grow as a startup or entrepreneur, Bill Gross is one of the best experts we could provide. A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab. After graduating from college, Bill and his brother Larry started GNP Development, Inc.,

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.).

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

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. Given the advances in communications technology, and the Web 2.0

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. What’s keeping you up at night?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Thank you all for your continued support in highlighting the many innovative technologies emerging in Southern California! The Hybrid Group is passionate about making useful things with technology.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

► August (1) Stay Positive ► July (2) Go Fast, but Don’t Hurry The DNA of an A++ Team ► June (1) Setting up Shop - Picking an Office Space ▼ May (3) Startup 6.0 - the Rubicon Project: Internet Advert. Visit StrongMail Website Startup 4.0: Startup 3.0: So, I am on to Startup 6.0.

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