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TechZulu Presents 2012 Startup Forecast | Featuring Science, Tech Coast Angels, Amplify, StartEngine, upStart.LA

Tech Zulu Event

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2012. The panel is comprised of Southern California’s Top VC’s, Angels, and Startup Accelerator founders.

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Will Crowdfunding Replace Angel And VC Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

According to articles on Entrepreneur last year, there are now almost 1,000 crowdfunding platforms in existence, currently estimated to add more than $65 billion and 270,000 jobs to the economy. In Europe, other investors can buy equity, with platforms such as Seedrs. angels crowdfunding entrepreneur investor' In the U.S.,

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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

Both Sides of the Table

It was a software platform for allowing advertisers to purchase brand integration (product placements) as a standardized unit through a marketplace. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. Los Angeles' I’ve known Hamet for 5 years.

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Bolstering the Partner Ranks at GRP

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He co-founded a prominent accelerator in Los Angeles called MuckerLab , that has produced a number of impressive companies and he mentored more than 20 of them. Natural mentors – a desire to help. It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion.

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Miigle Revisited | A SoCal Startup With a Global Mission

Tech Zulu Event

We first interviewed Luc in 2012, just as he was launching the prototype for Miigle. LB: Currently, we are about 75% and that’s really because in this phase we have developed what I think is the most critical aspect of our platform, which is the technology that allows us to truly build our community. Again, we’ve made this very easy.

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How to Avoid Being Disrupted as a VC

Both Sides of the Table

My partner Greg Bettinelli (worth following on Twitter) was recently named by The LA Business Journal as the “ Top deal maker in Los Angeles in Venture Capital.” Invest more heavily in platform services. From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. I created an accelerator & mentor network (Launchpad LA).

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JS Saturday | Javascript Beginner to Advanced in One Day!

Tech Zulu Event

In a collaborative effort, Ria Consulting, LLC and Los Angeles Net Developers Group are hosting this event on November 10th, 2012 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. Hattan is responsible for developing applications on a variety of platforms including web and mobile devices.