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Interview with Amir Banifatemi and Kai Tao, K5Launch

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K5Launch (www.k5launch.com) is modeled after the successful Y-Combinator and TechStars acceleration programs, and invests equity, provides mentors, and runs a three month program to get very early stage startups off the ground. We are in Orange County, but we're also focused more largely on Southern California. What is K5Launch?

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Interview with Jonathan Kohn, Fitspot

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Los Angeles is the capital of on-demand apps, for just about anything you want. We spoke with Jonathan Kohn , the founder and CEO of Fitspot, on what the startup is all about. We have about 350, nationally certified, trainers on the platform, all vetted internally by us, and by our mentor network. What is Fitspot?

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Southern California Accelerator Report Card: Q1 2013

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To be fair (and as other accelerators in town are eager to point out), Launchpad LA has had a head start, with a number of companies which joined the accelerator before it was an accelerator, and was a mentoring group for a mix of both funded and non-funded companies. READ MORE>>.

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How Beatshare Is Tackling Music And Messaging

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Orange County startup Beatshare --backed by the Tech Coast Angels, Pasadena Angels, Harvard Business School Angels, and Archangels, among others�thinks it's figured out the formula to make music the message in its mobile app. Barry Lieberman: My backgruond is about 35 years in technology, business development, and sales and marketing.

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Three Factors Which Intoxicate Venture Capitalists - Why Your Startup Will (Probably) Not Raise Venture Capital Funding

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Partners at large venture firms generally believe that Orange County is the ideal geography for medical devices, San Diego for telecom and life sciences (along with Boston) and Silicon Valley for everything else. I guess no one told him about the medical startups that were purchased by Medtronic, Linvatec, Storz, Mentor, etc.,

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Female Founders and CEOs | Talia Goldstein of Three Day Rule

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Talia, tell me a little about yourself. I grew up in Orange County and then headed east to Tulane University. I ran things for about a year until Val was able to join on full time. It was as if they were reading a Cosmo magazine to see what we were talking about. We started definitely for women only.