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SoCal Heads to SXSWi | 2012 Panel Picking Guide

Tech Zulu Event

The race to get your SXSWi panel to as many votes as possible so that you will be selected to present at the coming 2012 SXSW. Power Up Your Life thru Mobile Gamification (Velti). Design: Developing for a Consumerized Enterprise World (BetterWorks). Startups: Demystifying the PR Process for the Lean Startup (Symphony PR).

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Startup Lessons From Pink Floyd’s Dark Side Of The Moon

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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. Lesson: As described in Go For The Quick Buck , wily startups also devise creative ways to secure funding from their customers, rather than from investors.

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Miigle Revisited | A SoCal Startup With a Global Mission

Tech Zulu Event

We recently sat down with Luc Berlin, co-founder of Miigle, a SoCal startup that has an aggressive global mission to bring entrepreneurs together from around the world. We first interviewed Luc in 2012, just as he was launching the prototype for Miigle. The quintessential problem that every startup has is one of visibility.

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Uniting and Empowering Local Entrepreneurs

Tech Zulu Event

Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 included 17 panels ranging from ‘Public Relations for Start Ups’ to ‘How to Find and Hire a Developer’. It was followed by TechZulu’s infamous “ Tech Crawl ” hopping from start up to start up. Founder of Smilu shares challenges hiring mobile gaming developers.

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Interview with Satish Varma, Clorder

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For our startup interview this morning, we caught up with Satish Varma , co-founder of Torrance-based Clorder (www.clorder.com), which is developing restaurant ordering software. We caught up with Satish to learn more about the company and its products. What's your background, and how did the company start?

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Paying It Forward: Amanda Bensol of Karma Wi-Fi

Tech Zulu Event

Wi-Fi hotspots aren’t new by any means (duh) but this was the first time I’d heard of Karma and their always maintaining open wifi networks, no contracts, and pay it forward mantra which rewards both hub owners and would be wifi users with free data incentives. She wanted to get involved, which led her to startups.

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Will Crowdfunding Replace Angel And VC Investors?

Startup Professionals Musings

Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, it still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. In the U.S.,