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What Mattered in 2012: Aber Whitcomb, io/LA

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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. At io/LA we launched a new 8000 sq/ft co-work and incubator space in Hollywood. Aside from the theoretical stuff, 2012 has been a year of disruption in many areas of technology.

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Startup Weekend LA | Recap February 2012

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It’s also a very exciting time here in LA Tech with over 6 accelerators and incubators springing up over the past year. We’d also like to thank the Startup Weekend Global Sponsors including Amazon, Twilio, Kloudmine, Open Tok (Talk Box), Sendgrid, Microsoft, and Google.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

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Meet the Graduates: · Connectifier, which connects recruiters to potential job candidates, consists of 4 ex-Google employees and local angel investor, Terrence Yang, has dubbed Connectifier one of the best startups of 2012. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7 I think the model works well,” said McCann.

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Surveying SoCal's M&A Landscape, with David Siemer

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Google and Yahoo aren''t going to buy them, AOL has already made its bet, and your only real path to an exit is an IPO for any kind of liquidity. In 2012, half of all the M&A transactions were cross border, for the first time. I think the incubators have a lot to do with it. Their only option is an IPO.

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Veteran LA law firm opens a Silicon Beach office and launches a pro-bono “Precelerator”

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November 8, 2012 6:00 PM Only $20! Like any accelerator or incubator, companies and teams must be selected before being admitted to the Stubbs Alderton & Markiles Precelerator, but in a unique twist, the firm will not take anything in return for their participation, including equity or a guarantee of legal representation.

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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

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DreamHost has a successful track record of incubating technologies in-house and then releasing them to the broader market. In 2012 the company rolled out Inktank, an innovative open source storage solution based on Ceph’s distributed file system, which was subsequently sold to Red Hat for $175 million.

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

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TenHands was Incorporated on January 11, 2011 and launched its first alpha service in November of 2011, private beta in April 2011 and open beta in July 2012. where he led the incubated startup to $300m in revenues as the fastest growing Service Provider for Collaboration services to include video, web, and audio. When was it launched?