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Startup Mentors

SoCal CTO

Do you have any suggestions for how to find a good mentor? Great question and I believe that just like finding a Technical Advisor for your startup is critical, finding a good mentor is critical. These are not mutually exclusive and good mentors and advisors get into both. For me, I'd use LinkedIn. Most of us are not Google.

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DataPop Gets $1.7M

socalTECH

According to Lehmbeck, in an interview with socalTECH, the company's software takes key specifications from products such as televisions and other consumer electronics, and applies them to ads automatically, so that instead of just advertising a big screen television an ad might contain key terms and information about those products.

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Capturing The Entrepreneurial Energy At StartEngine's Demo Day

socalTECH

It was standing room only at StartEngine 's Demo Day Wednesday afternoon, held at Santa Monica's Cross Campus , as the startup accelerator launched eight of its latest startups into the world, after a 90 day process of mentoring, honing their business model, and heads down development. It's unclear.

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LaunchpadLA Application Deadline Nears, As Class Graduates

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LaunchpadLA, which is among a number of startup accelerators which have emerged over the past few years and turned Los Angeles into one of the hottest startup markets in the nation, offers up $100,000 in an investment, free office space for four months, and access to mentors.

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Interview with Howard Marks, Start Engine

socalTECH

The program is basically to take entrepreneurs, pair them with a mentor who is also an entrepreneur themselves, either a CEO or a CTO. It's structured so that they get funding, office space, all of the Internet resources, tools they need from mentors. There might be one or two mentors, one might be a CTO, another, a CEO.

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Ted Dhanik | Engage:BDR, LA Tech & the Marketing Scene

Tech Zulu Event

As the demands and supplies grew for advertising, we built a stable capital to create Engage:BDR. We also license our ad serving technology to publishers, advertisers, and other ad networks. In addition to that, we are advertisers as well and we own about ten consumer brands to leverage our reach to monetize our inventory better.

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Angelhack | A New Breed of Hackathon

Tech Zulu Event

Angelhack’s formula allows them to bring in serious players looking to build something and places them in front of interested and looking Angel investors all the while offering them opportunities with top accelerators and incubators. Disclaimer, I am a mentor for this event. Register Now: angelhacksf.eventbrite.com/.

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