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JumpStartFund Takes On Crowdfunding, Advice For Research Startups

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JumpStartFund , which is based in El Segundo, opened up its service this morning to help use the wisdom of the crowd to move ideas, patents, and research from individuals, federal research labs, universities, and research organizations to the market. The site combines the crowd-voting aspect with crowd-funding elements, as well. READ MORE>>.

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Tapping The Power Of The Crowd For Ideas, Advice and Funding, with JumpStartFund

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Dirk Ahlborn: We are coming out of the nonprofit incubator, the Girvan Institute of Technology, which has been around since 2002, and is funded by NASA Ames. It is one of the older incubators in Los Angeles, even though not a lot of people know about it. That gives us access to the patents from those federal labs and universities have.

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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. We've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms.

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

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Don’t think about starting an incubator until you have real operating experience otherwise you don’t really have anything to offer startups. I commented that many young entrepreneurs I talk to these days have a desire to “go plural&# and create an incubator. We talked about patents. I think this makes no sense.

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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

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Caltech generates more patents than any other university while UCLA boasts more startups founded by its graduate than any other school in the nation. Suster has also noted for years that the region produces more technology doctorates than any other geography in the United States.

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JumpStartFund Launches First Ever Crowd-Powered Portal For Startups

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Helping solicit new business ideas and patents from individuals, federal research labs, universities and other R&D organizations countrywide. How its online incubation works. Members submit ideas and patents, the JumpStartFund community members and the JumpStartFund team vets them. El Segundo, CA based JumpStarter Inc.,

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

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Anyone can talk a good game, and put together a proforma that looks great, and there are lots of great looking ideas, and people can even all have filed a provisional patent. We''re now trying to tie into the local universities, incubators, and other centers of entrepreneurship. We''re really looking for that first and foremost.