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April 12, 2012
Speaker shares accelerator success

About 60 entrepreneurs and investors gathered Wednesday at Embassy Suites for a seminar on starting business.
It’s very simple, said Brad Feld, a veteran entrepreneur, investor and author who co-founded TechStars, the No. 1 tech startup accelerator program in the United States according to TechCocktail.com.

“The best entrepreneurs are ones that are completely and totally obsessed with the product they create,” Feld said. “Period. That’s it.”

December 29, 2011
Area Groups Try to Bring More Financial Options to SCV Entrepreneurs

The Santa Clarita Valley is a community with a vision; a pro-business community that advocates and plans for economic development. And with all that activity comes growing pains.

The Santa Clarita Valley is a community with a vision; a pro-business community that advocates and plans for economic development. And with all that activity comes growing pains.

“In the Santa Clarita Valley, we have excellent representation from business banks,” said Jonas Peterson, CEO and president of the Santa Clarita Valley Economic Development Corporation. “However, we are typically behind the curve in venture capital and non-traditional financing.”