socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Today's contribution is from Lawrence Ng , serial entrepreneur who, last year, founded OnRamp Fund , a $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups. Lawrence Ng: Our biggest news was growing our global incubator, OnRamp. The company won numerous awards during his tenure as CEO. We've learned a lot in the process.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

In the past year, the number of startup accelerators and incubators across the US has grown faster than expansion league baseball. In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators. Brad prefaced his comments by highlighting several meaningful distinctions between accelerators and incubators. "I

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Southern California startup founder Isaac Saldana --who co-founded SendGrid --is hoping to help other entrepreneurs create companies , after the $3 billion, all-stock acquisition of SendGrid by Twilio in October. Saldana is based in Irvine, where he co-founded SendGrid in 2009. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Wednesday, November 18, 2009 -- CommNexus Presents: A Special Incubator Series. EvoNexus 101 The 5 Ws of Technology Incubators. Youve heard the buzz around town. Youve wondered how its possible. Youre wondering how you can be a part of it.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Disraeli also recently was appointed as CEO of the company. How did the company start? Stacy Stubblefield: We actually started out of an incubator, based out of Beverly Hills. We were working on a bunch of different projects when we first started at the incubator. Talk about Telesign and what you do?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

Since 2009 we’ve been in an unequivocal bull market. We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. And as I always assert, “Great companies are built in downturns. It has been a good run.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Today the Traveling Geeks saw presentations from 11 interesting startups at French incubator, the Paris Development Agency. Among them was Stribe , a company TechZulu originally interviewed at the TechCrunch50 conference earlier this year. The company's main target is e-commerce sites with rich media.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

More and more entrepreneurs are hearing about the successful graduates and investors queued behind a few well-known startup incubators, including Y Combinator, TechStars, and the Founder Institute. According to the National Business Incubator Association (NBIA) , there are currently over 1,200 members in 30 nations. Initial funding.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The company’s CEO, Brendon McQueen, graduated from Columbia with 12 loans that totaled over $120,000. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates. The founders previously ran another company together. They have tackled eight unique challenges,” said Teller.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The group says that so far, from 2009 to 2011, it accepted 23 companies, of which 19 received funding worth a total of $80M; the accelerator said that the nine companies acquired exceeds $60M in proceeds.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) Companies were getting funded more easily and many more companies were actually being created. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. We had a specific goal in mind.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2016

Once upon a time, one of the best benefits that employers could offer up an employee was a company contribution to their retirement plan. Santa Monica-based Tuition.IO (tuition.io) has s created a way for companies to both help their employees tackle that mound of student debt, as well as attract better and more loyal employees.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

There''s just simply no way that the founder or the management or anyone with equity in the company, besides the investor with a six-x liq pref (liquidation preference), could make any money. So we started out with an objective of helping launch a thousand meaningful and enduring technology companies a year. In Adeo''s words, ".

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

She’s also an advisor and connector to portfolio companies, and consults other angel groups to develop business plans. She began her career as an engineer at Cisco Systems and later cofounded a mobile gaming company. Thomas Flake, Founder of PTI Incubator & Founder of bcause. Joanne Chen, Partner at Foundation Capital.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

We were founded in 2009 by Mark Suster from GRP Partners. For two years, it was a mentorship program, that worked with twenty three different companies, but did not have a fund, did not have an office, and didn't take any equity. Then, it turned out, all of those companies did really well.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Ive personally been involved in the start-up world in Los Angeles for about 15 years, and have had the opportunity to work on many early-stage companies (e.g., Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

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socalTECH

MARCH 22, 2011

Our original name when we launched the firm was Digital Coast Partners, and we focused on being a consulting firm, investment bank, and incubator. And last but not least, I was the founder and lead guitarist of our company rock band, Full Monty. We want to emulate great companies such as Allen & Co., Montgomery & Co.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

And, yes, I realize that Im a service provider, but I also am a CTO for several companies. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 10, 2012

The company has experienced substantial user growth since their launch early this year. Ed Park was one of the first 100k users of Instagram back in early 2009. His company was one of the first in the industry that made it easy for anyone to start their own clothing line all from a website. Now that’s awesome!

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

According to the 2017 Kauffman Startup Activity Index , the share of new entrepreneurs who started businesses to pursue opportunity rather than from necessity reached 86 percent, more than 12 percentage points higher than in 2009 at the height of the Great Recession. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

What types of companies will be part of Techstars LA? The companies really are at the discretion of the managing director and team on the types and focus areas of the companies who will be included. We started in Boulder, Colorado, all the way back in 2007, with just ten companies. billion combined. Startups are hard.

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socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

A lot of people had asked me why I was taking the job, since I was a commercial guy, had been a commercial general manager, and had been running companies for my whole career. Clearly, 2009 was not a good year, from the perspective of the technology innovation ecosystem. They asked me why I was interested in a nonprofit?

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Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Incubation 3. ► October (1) New Video! .

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Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. ► October (1) New Video! .

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

After starting three companies, I've found that some widely accepted advice lead me to failure while. You work in (or run) a services company. Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Intrapreneurship: Embracing Disruptive Innovation Within Your Company. A Bootstrapped Geek Sifts Through the Bullshit.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

This has been especially true for angels or seed investors as there is a new thesis that less capital is needed to start Internet companies so more money is being spent at this phase of the funding lifecycle. companies did not participate in the first phase and consequently were not in the running for all that followed. Sound familiar?

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