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Interview Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, Upstart.LA

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which became Softbank Marketing, selling ads for Yahoo before Yahoo had its own salesforce. Bruce Brown: I was working in 1985 writing keyboard and mouse drivers for Windows version 1. There are lots of incubators here-- practically every school or municipality has some kind of incubator--but they don't have an accelerator.

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Want to Work in VC? Here’s How

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Plus, show my you can write! I’m already 2 weeks late in writing this blog post as my partners keep reminding me. He heads their business development practice and they have been very active in incubating, investing in and helping grow LA startups. In the technology space we have backed Overture (acquired by Yahoo!),

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TYLT Labs' New Seed Fund And The Promise Of Silicon Beach

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We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount. Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here. We''re now trying to tie into the local universities, incubators, and other centers of entrepreneurship. That said, we still need investors here.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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It was a pleasure to write them myself. GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! Don’t think about starting an incubator until you have real operating experience otherwise you don’t really have anything to offer startups. Overture (Goto.com).

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. When you start a company in the Bay Area you can often get your first biz dev deal done with Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, eBay, Yahoo! How do we make that happen?