SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 -- Silicon Beach @ USC. SoCal has had a long history of tech innovation and Los Angeles is undeniably the creative capital. USC, with a strong entrepreneurial tradition and home to the leading school for cinematic arts, is pushing the Silicon Beach movement forward with an upcoming forum.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Saturday, October 13, 2012 -- Weekend Workshop: Entrepreneurial Thinking + UX Design. Be it building an entire startup or just a better app, certain skills are applicable to anyone looking to push their business forward. presented by General Assembly + Launchpad LA. See [link].

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Thursday, September 13, 2012 -- Silicon Beach @ USC. SoCal has had a long history of tech innovation and Los Angeles is undeniably the creative capital. USC, with a strong entrepreneurial tradition and home to the leading school for cinematic arts, is pushing the Silicon Beach movement forward with an upcoming forum.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

The space for startups is more crowded than ever. First of all, it’s now international, so you have startups from every country in the world competing for your customer’s attention and their business. Even the Google search engine crawlers may take up to two weeks to find you. Their startups will get noticed.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

The biggest culprit to a startup failure is a dysfunctional founding team. based startup CoFoundersLab has addressed this issue by taking the guesswork out of matchmaking by introducing scientific methods, deep research and algorithms that have proven to lead to successful matches. I wanted to give back to my community in the D.C.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 12, 2013

Full-service Pinterest marketing and technology startup – HelloSociety recently announced it had driven $30 million in additional sales revenue for its over 350 brand clientele through Pinterest. The Science Inc accelerated startup also said it had delivered 2.9

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The original notion of the company started around the idea of sender controlled communications. Within that, we started to focus early on around the opportunity of applying this in the enterprise, and subsequently, healthcare. Within that, when we started to canvas the verticals, healthcare bubbled up to the top very quickly.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 1, 2011

Just yesterday, a new study “ The PNC Economic Outlook: Survey of Small & Middle-Market Business Owners ” was published. economy is transitioning to a self-sustaining economic expansion in 2011-2012, that will not be derailed by higher energy prices, Europe’s sovereign debt problems, or the recent disaster in Japan.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Students and teachers could rarely be friends on Facebook and no student would want their Physics or Math teacher telling them to study thoroughly for their term paper, but things change and so do we. ” The Ann Arbor startup was founded by Azarias Reda, Jack Shultz and John Cunningham. They add yet another study.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 9, 2013

Earlier this year, a new study “ 2013 Business Outlook Survey: A New Reality Of Cautious Optimism ” was published by EKS&H. It shows a return to cautious optimism despite growth lower than expected in 2012, and much improved perspective from the record-high pessimism of the last few years.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Supperking ([link] a newly launched startup, is hoping that one of those ways will be over a home cooked meal you discover over the phone's iPhone application. How'd you come up with the idea for SupperKing? Kai Stubble: I have a finance background, and studied international finance in Germany, Chile, South America, and Australia.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Supperking ([link] a newly launched startup, is hoping that one of those ways will be over a home cooked meal you discover over the phone's iPhone application. How'd you come up with the idea for SupperKing? Kai Stubbe: I have a finance background, and studied international finance in Germany, Chile, South America, and Australia.

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Eric Greenspan

MARCH 25, 2013

As I began prepping for my talk at USC Marshall School of Business about the recent failure of my 12 year old company Make It Work, I cannot deny many memories were dug up. I had suppressed much of what happened prior to and after that day, June 25, 2012. I thank my mom who taught me “you are only a failure when you give up.”

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

An E visa is meant for foreign investors looking to start a business in the U.S. have authored bipartisan legislation aimed at jumpstarting the economy through the creation and growth of new businesses” through the reintroduction of the Start Up Act. or purely invest in established U.S. Senators Jerry Moran (R-Kan.)

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Daradiction

DECEMBER 29, 2011

million series A investment round, which has helped us scale the team to over 15 people, up from just Jason and I when we started. I stepped up my public speaking profile this year, and this video < from the Esri partner conference is a great example. We’re planning another trip July 2012 for a week this time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 2, 2012

Whether it’s a local tweet-up or a major conference, this knowledge could be useful to help you plan what events you should sponsor or where you should set up your next booth. If you think location-based services are a long way from mainstream, take a look at the new 2012 Digital Study. Event marketing. Lead generation.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California. Techpreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 3, 2013

Whether it’s a business or personal interaction, multiple studies show that as much as 50-65% of the communication is nonverbal. Amazingly, it leveled off in 2012, only due to Twitter, which has already superseded SMS texting in volume of messages. Some people stand up and move around to be more dominant, maybe even threatening.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Sure, tending to a harvest or building up a city can be fun but why not play for real world rewards. Fresh off their GDC Online 2012 public unveiling, I had a chance to sit down with Mike and discuss his journey to being a social gaming trendsetter with their new social game Race 4 My Place.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 31, 2013

From the time I took a screenshot of the view count for this article, to my fingers clicking away typing these words, the video has already shot up over an additional 300,000 views totaling 1,851,189 views in 2 days. The largest YouTube for business conference is coming up this week, Vid Con. If we apply that.01%

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

A Google survey from July 2012 calculated that more than half the small businesses in the US are still without a basic website. The pride and effort they have placed in building up their business should be reflected through their web presence. Start out with very simple goals and reassure them that nobody has all the answers.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 4, 2013

A Google survey from July 2012 calculated that more than half the small businesses in the US are still without a basic website. The pride and effort they have placed in building up their business should be reflected through their web presence. Start out with very simple goals and reassure them that nobody has all the answers.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 24, 2012

The Digital Detox Retreat September 13-16, 2012. TechZulu had a chance to catch up with Levi and ask him some questions. The Digital Detox is a tech-free personal wellness retreat where attendees give up their smart-phones and gadgets in exchange for serenity and bliss. How did The Digital Detox get started?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

MM: How did you end up enlisting? DB: I grew up in rural Michigan. DB: My service was up in August of 2008, and I moved back to the U.S. MM: What did you study? I also joined the staff of CALinnovates in 2012. It’s not just an innovator dreaming up a great product. I love startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2013

Even though “Big Data” has now been around for a few years, the opportunities for startups seem to keep growing, just as the amount of data keeps growing. I will summarize here some of the key business domains with large opportunities, based on a McKinsey Global Institute study and other sources : Targeted marketing. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

I’ve been an avid user of Plug.DJ’s music discovery site since early 2012, have discovered a ton of music there (which, by the way, I’m still listening to today) and originally covered their $1.25M in seed-round funding from Javelin Venture Partners. was founded in February 2012 by a team of passionate music fans.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

There are already hundreds of cultured Angelenos signed up and ready to converge on downtown LA’s Arts district to experience the mind-meld of Mindshare 50. Bushnell has started more than twenty companies and is one of the founding fathers of the video game industry. Going to be out of town this weekend for Mothers day? 10:15am: MIND.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

In startups and small companies, the numbers are much better, but still estimated to be below 25%. Yet, according to a study by the Center for Women’s Business Research, the number of female-run firms is growing twice as fast as all the rest, so women are catching up.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 15, 2015

million in seed funding since its founding in 2012. Ellis points out a case study where they discovered viewers of a particular movie poster were the common thread among purchases of a particular turntable. Ellis points this success to starting with a great community coupled with a combo of human curators on staff and technology.

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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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