Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Recently, we had a great opportunity to sit down and chat with Amanda Bensol, head BD/Marketing for Karma. Amidst the search she found her way working with NYC based incubator Techstars as an associate. Amanda talks a bit about life working for an incubator. Their year will incorporate a significant marketing push.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. It was clear to us that LA was now a powerhouse market and we loved working with all of the other accelerators in town. Market stage is everything.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

The company was founded in 2012, developed by an all-Trojan team and has already made a big splash with this first-of-its-kind travel website. If the online solutions that exist in the markets today were adequate, that number would be near zero.” Baumgartner points out, “Half of all travel booking is still transacted offline today.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

We don''t spend a lot of time there, except that we''re active investors and bankers who are affected by what''s happening in the IPO market. That''s why the IPO markets coming back is so critical. David Siemer: More generally, the M&A market is solid. which is still a premier market for the world.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2016

I eventually ended up here in 2012, where the company came out of an incubator here called Launchpad LA. It originally had been a consumer platform, to help people organize and optimize their loans, and it was only last April that we started looking at the enterprise market, and our employer facing platform was launched.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

DreamHost has a successful track record of incubating technologies in-house and then releasing them to the broader market. In 2012 the company rolled out Inktank, an innovative open source storage solution based on Ceph’s distributed file system, which was subsequently sold to Red Hat for $175 million.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2014

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 1,900 members in over 60 nations. Peer support.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

More specifically, K5Launch is an accelerator will take startup companies--both existing companies and those that are not yet fully funded--who would like to get to a Series A, and allow them to apply to become part of a boot camp program, which lasts three months, and enables them to build their product and validate the market of that product.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 2, 2013

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 1250 incubators today in the US alone.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2012

On July 27, 2012 the AT&T Developer Program and Apigee produced the Mobile App Hackathon in Los Angeles, California. Spearheaded by Alex Donn , the event was designed for both technical and non-technical attendees to build apps over the course of a weekend at Io/La , an incubator/co-work space in the heart of Hollywood.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Today, we're featuring Erik Rannala , founder of MuckerLab , the startup accelerator focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 14, 2016

That means in three months, Bristol has lost a third of its value, equivalent to about $40 billion in market capitalization. Illumina fended off a hostile takeover bid from Roche back in February 2012, and over the next three years shares went from about $51 apiece to as high as $219.30 Today, shares are worth just over $50.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

By November 2012, CoFoundersLab Meetups had expanded to 20 cities. CoFoundersLab has gained ground quickly creating partnerships with entrepreneurial programs at Ivy League universities, top incubators and accelerators, and investors. Soon after CoFoundersLab was accepted into D.C.’s

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Additionally, the database includes on-street meter and sign restrictions in the top 26 US markets. In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. Dinesh is a highly entrepreneurial executive with a track record of driving sales through innovative biz-dev and online marketing techniques. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Event Details.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2015

Tucker Kain: In 2012, when the current ownership group bought the Dodgers, the group they pulled together was pretty heavily investment focused. That strategy manifested in our launching this program, which is in day one as of today, as one of the opportunities we saw in the market. That's how we approached it.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Additionally, the database includes on-street meter and sign restrictions in the top 26 US markets. In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

It was the morning of June 26th, 2012. We were going to be interviewing with Howard Marks for his incubator, StartEngine, in the morning. You get to learn everything from marketing to sales to accounting to business development to being able to make pretty websites and graphics. Everyday is also unpredictable.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

MuckerLab has already secured its reputation as one of the hottest startup accelerators in town with a particular emphasis on product for incubation-stage software, services and media ventures. With over 9 million photo questions posted since October 2012, their users spend 170 minutes a month on the service. Founded by L.A.’s

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

TenHands was Incorporated on January 11, 2011 and launched its first alpha service in November of 2011, private beta in April 2011 and open beta in July 2012. where he led the incubated startup to $300m in revenues as the fastest growing Service Provider for Collaboration services to include video, web, and audio. When was it launched?

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Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

That is a 65% increase in the number of IPOs over 2012, and the highest proceeds raised since the year 2000. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

But these requirements may go away with the Crowdfunding JOBS Act passed into law back in 2012. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

While great strides have been made in the mobile economy, there are still many challenges and opportunities to consider, and much we can learn from the market frontrunners. Smith says it’s more of a product development question than a marketing one. The service is currently available in five markets with more to come this year.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Cody Simms: Ultimately, our mission is to be the best, global ecosystem for bringing new technology to market. One could argue that in 2010, 2011, and 2012, that growth was in the video and entertainment area. For those not familiar with the benefits of TechStars, can you fill us in on Techstars?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 9/21/2012. Successful startups are all about the execution.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

My original thinking from Oct ’09 was, while I didn’t (and still don’t) have a crystal ball I worried that: consumers were over-stretched with debt (and make up 77% of the economy), unemployment would continue to rise, which in turn would drive the stock market south and cut the rate of M&A activity and VC investment even further.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Loading… Markets. Loading… Market Data. October 5, 2012. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 Another client of Mr. Rappaports, Mich Mathews, formerly the head of marketing for Microsoft. 2012, compared with the same period in 2011.

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