Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive.

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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 are the technologies, companies, or things we ought to watch in 2013? What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

So, without further ado, here''s the list of this year''s 2013 Socaltech 50 : Basil Abifaker , Transaction Wireless (San Diego, digital gift cards). Sam Teller ,LaunchpadLA (Los Angeles, incubator). Ashish Soni , USC (Los Angeles, incubator/university). Sophia Amoruso , NastyGal (LA, Downtown, fashion).

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

One team, a travel company that has built a discovery and planning tool that will make it easy and fun for travelers to find and book trips, was a winner of not just the New Venture Seed Competition in 2013, but also recently won the first day of the Lavin Lean Model Startup Competition in San Diego State University.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2013

As an employer in the Social Media age I find it ground breaking.” We are based in South Africa, but have plans to launch globally in 2013. We received some incubation from 42 Engine, but beyond this will start looking for VC in 2013. What are your 2013 plans? .” Gary Willmott. Co Founder of Urbian.

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Startup Incubator Marketing Seed Funding 71

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Peter Csathy – CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures, accomplished media and digital media entrepreneur. Richard Wolpert – Managing Director of Amplify.LA, startup incubator and Venture Advisor at Accel Partners. Some quick numbers: In 2013, $100M was invested into Bitcoin-related ventures.

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Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Bitcoin has had a rough start to the year (to say the least) – with a never-ending news feed consisting of massive bankruptcy , scandal stories, and car chase media fiascos. To comment on the rocky state of Bitcoin affairs in the last 30 days, does Dan believe we’re past the worst of a media firestorm? The ultimate plan?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

By handpicking and curating playlists of high quality how-to media, LessonPaths offers concrete pathways to learning any skill, activity, or academic subject for even the most novice lifestyle learners. The company’s original service still operates as LessonPaths.com – a platform for self-learning students and curators.

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Startup Competition Entrepreneur Google 99

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

So with Fetchnotes’ latest updates (live as of Wednesday, November 13, 2013), you can now share your notes to anyone in your unified address book through SMS (it was the simplest system). We text, email, share, and post these quick to consume pieces of media. That, and a fundamentally different standard for privacy. .

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

It’s becoming harder to distinguish tech companies from media companies. So we’ve seen an explosion in the number of startup companies and subsequently a huge burst in the number of incubators. Our lease runs out in 2013. Many “tech companies” now have green screens. And make-up artists. And sound engineers.

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Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%. IPO proceeds also shattered 2013’s high-water mark of $55 billion, with an impressive $85 billion in proceeds. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit). Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups. It’s not too late to start. Marty Zwilling.

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