SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 22, 2012

Tuesday, August 28, 2012 -- Nailing The Pitch. Making the most out of each investor meeting is what this class is all about. During the class we?ll ll also look at the most common mistakes entrepreneurs make while pitching investors. Coloft Academy. Instructor: Tyler Crowley. See [link] (more)

Class 100

Class Entrepreneur Help Startup 100

socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2012

Los Angeles-based startup accelerator MuckerLab announced this morning that it has teamed with Mozilla and its WebFWD program, to create a new, joint acceleration program aimed at open source entrepreneurs. In a related move, MuckerLab said it has begun accepting applications for its upcoming 2012 fall semester.

Class 133

Class Los Angeles Entrepreneur Angel 133

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Want to be an entrepreneur? In addition, Entrepreneur Magazine recently included UCSB in its Top 50 Schools For VC Backed Entrepreneurs at number 37. The TMP began in the late 1990''s as a single class inside the Engineering College. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. Don''t go to Wharton or Harvard.

Santa Barbara 258

Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 13, 2012

Thursday, April 19, 2012 -- SDVG Presents. The film also includes some of our finest entrepreneurs sharing how they worked with these venture capitalists to grow world-class companies like Intel, Apple, Cisco, Atari, Genentech, Tandem and others. See [link] (more)

Class 100

Class Entrepreneur Company Companies 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2012

As entrepreneurs, you always need to be on the lookout for ways to expand your current business, and always on the lookout for your next big thing. These could be support related, or education related, or a package of product and services for a new class of customers. Add services that are complementary to your product.

Startup 98

Startup Customer Custom Entrepreneur 98

socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2014

has figured out one way -- which is to run a startup accelerator, Warner Media Camp (www.mediacamp.com)--which pulls a class of startups into the company for an intense, twelve week program every year, and helps those companies tap into the resources of the studio. Our sister company, Turner, began Media Camp San Francisco in 2012.

Startup 159

Startup Technology Hollywood Media 159

InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2013

By 2012, total sales exceeded 50 million copies and founding band member Roger Waters was cited by Forbes as the second highest paid musician of the year, pulling in $88 million. Entrepreneurs can learn a great deal from the manner in which Pink Floyd created DSOTM. Entrepreneurs should always err on the side of long-term gain.

Startup 269

Startup Cloud Computing RSS Writing 269

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 11, 2012

One of the worst things for an entrepreneur to have happen to them is to lose communication due to battery life. Stereo Bluetooth Class 2, Version 4.0 Motorola has been taking notes from the energizer bunny and wants to keep you going and going and going… Verizon Wireless and Motorola announced the DROID RAZR MAXX. Bands/Modes.

Entrepreneur 64

Entrepreneur Google Software Review Yahoo 64

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

There are many other outlets in the community providing mentorship, education, workshops, and networking, and many others supporting entrepreneurs, but we believe there is a void in the very early stages of formation. However, the main benefit is the one-on-one assistance of entrepreneurs, and access to capital.

Orange County 192

Orange County Southern California Startup Class 192

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

17, entrepreneurs, investors, civic leaders and other key players in the tech industry will gather at the historic Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, Calif. startups attracting over $847 million in investment funds in 2012 alone, the city’s diverse resources are often too separated. 3 startup ecosystem in the world, with L.A.

Los Angeles 101

Los Angeles Angel Startup Venture Capital 101

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

A class we produce here at General Assembly called “Intro to the LA Startup Community” , has turned into a series, each time presented by a different prominent person in the startup ecosystem providing a unique perspective on the tech scene in LA. Sam taught a second rendition of the class in February and over 700 people signed up.

Rustic Canyon 74

Rustic Canyon Startup Los Angeles Class 74

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

This is class four for Launchpad LA. 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. The teams have accomplished an incredible amount in the past four months.

GRP Partners 96

GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 26, 2015

The Professor''s argument impacted me viscerally, as I have a number of students from various nationalities in my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial classes. Can you imagine being a recent immigrant in this Professor''s class and being told that you have almost no chance of bettering your social status?!

Santa Barbara 100

Santa Barbara Class Mobile Report 100

Tech.Co

MAY 24, 2017

For some reason, the 2012 Atlantic article, “ Why Women Still Can’t Have It All ,” has always fueled me. And not just the token two children, but to actually be the one who volunteered in their classes and screamed at them to stop picking flowers on the soccer field. I wanted the career and the family. Find Your Me Time.

Class 90

Class Journal Writing Demand 90

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

We spoke earlier with Cody Simms , Executive Director of Techstars America and who leads the program in LA, to hear more about why the startup accelerator operator is opening up its third accelerator here, why Los Angeles has turned out to be one of the leading sources for startups across its network, as well as Cody's advice to entrepreneurs.

Startup 100

Startup Los Angeles Mentor Class 100

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. So we went for it.

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Venture Capital Startup Idealab Funding 290

Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

When Jacob Salamon and Jared Bauer met each other freshman year at UT-Austin, they were sitting in an astronomy class. Bauer thought all the way back to astronomy class and said that maybe the day had come for them to finally make movies together. After all, Bauer was already in Los Angeles working on a show for Chris Rock Productions.

Education 92

Education Los Angeles Class Ideas 92

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion. We both wanted to build a practice that would make Los Angeles proud but where we would travel tirelessly to other locations to make investments in the best entrepreneurs wherever they were. They were effusive.

Venture Capital 360

Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. You can fly first class and not talk to fellow passengers. Entrepreneur Dinners. One of my favorite things to do is to organize entrepreneur dinners when I travel. So in 2012 you’ll see me a lot more often at the Launchpad LA offices. The Haimish factor.

Startup 319

Startup Organization Entrepreneur Blogging 319

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. For me Silicon Beach doesn’t quite encapsulate the wonderful, dynamic, creative, large, thriving community that is the 13 million proud Angelinos any more than Silicon Alley captures the bustling 2012 community of New York City. Like they truly understood entrepreneurs.

Startup 304

Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Whether you are talking to peers, competitors or investors, you as an active entrepreneur will be judged on your familiarity with today’s startup and funding jargon. In that context, I offer you my latest collection of popular investor-to-entrepreneur terms and concepts. Frothy is good for entrepreneurs. Seed-round investment.

Startup 57

Startup Software Review Equity Invest 57

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Program head Robert Jadon describes Startup UCLA as more of a pre-accelerator than anything, meaning the the ideas are typically earlier stage and the entrepreneurs less experienced. Being in its inaugural class, Startup UCLA is still sorting through its own identity and business model issues. by Michael Carney on September 13, 2012.

UCLA 47

UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

That's when I started my first company, ScaleFunder, which we spun out of the UC California system in 2012. We also are now offering Retina go, which allows any business do a one time, low class customer lifetime value scoring of their customers, which gives an automated analysis in a little over 24 ours.

Dollar Shave Club 113

Dollar Shave Club Artificial Inteligence Customer Custom 113

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Wednesday November 20 th , 2013 was a special day for the technology entrepreneurs at the University of Southern California. The USC Entrepreneur Club and the Kairos Society brought Howard Marks , a successful entrepreneur and founder and CEO of StartEngine , on campus to speak about his past experiences. The Time Is Now. “We

Startup 107

Startup Los Angeles USC Southern California 107

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. There are 2.9 billion email accounts. This figure is predicted to reach 3.8 billion by 2014.

Email 339

Email SaaS Venture Capital Google 339

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency. He is a media and digital media entrepreneur, senior executive, negotiator and dealmaker with an unbroken track record of success in start-up and emerging growth companies, as well as major and independent media companies.

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. CallFire technology is already playing a prominent role in 2012 political races across the spectrum.

Venture Capital 89

Venture Capital Cloud Computing Class Education 89

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Always looking to provide the very best for our community so that you may learn and grow as a startup or entrepreneur, Bill Gross is one of the best experts we could provide. A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of January 22, 2012.

Idealab 84

Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition to the 330+ students, entrepreneurs and investors in attendance, the event also achieved over 45,000 views on the TechZulu live stream. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2015

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2015 Startup and Entrepreneur Forecast taking place Thursday, January 29 from 7 p.m. Banking the world’s most innovative companies and exclusive wineries, SVB’s diverse financial services, knowledge, global network, and world class service increase our clients’ probability of success.

Startup 40

Startup Artificial Inteligence Venture Capital Santa Monica 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. upStart.LA is a startup accelerator based in Los Angeles that helps tech entrepreneurs get their business up and going. Community Sponsors.

UCLA 102

UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

Just 20 years old and a recent Harvard University dropout, Olenka provided insight into her transition to Los Angeles, life as an entrepreneur, and how she’s passionate about helping non-English speakers see American movies in their own native language. So being an entrepreneur is a lot like being a student. Skip classes.

Startup 91

Startup Entertainment CTO Coach Screening 91

InfoChachkie

JULY 9, 2012

Mark Suster , fellow venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur, has written extensively about YouTube’s evolution from dogs-on-skateboards to its current status as an entertainment medium rivaling cable television networks. The subscriber numbers and their relative ranking are as of mid-May 2012. He is not alone. Top YouTubers.

Google 133

Google Develop Development Funding 133

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

They offer classes in personal responsibility and accountability, they teach men to forgive themselves and to forgive the people who perpetrated them as children because they all grew up surrounded by bad influences. Catherine (Cat) Hoke founded the program in 2010 and launched the business plan competition in 2012.

Writing 150

Writing Startup Design Training 150

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition to the 330+ students, entrepreneurs and investors in attendance, the event also achieved over 45,000 views on the TechZulu live stream. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Directions to the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter 2012. Start Engine offers a team of mentors who have proven themselves as successful entrepreneurs – not professional investors – ensuring that its startups are guided by the right people for the right reasons. Event Details. to 10:00 p.m.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

Hollywood 67

Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67