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Zuma Ventures: Creating A New Technology Startup Model

socalTECH

Internally, we look very similar to a tech company, in that we have a development team, go-to-market team, and product people, and the ultimate goal of what we want to accomplish is to create companies that can run independently, with their own management teams. How is this different than accelerator or incubator? READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Kos Galatsis, Carbonics

socalTECH

In the startup world, one of the most difficult journeys to market is by companies who are taking basic scientific advances and technologies originally developed at universities, and taking them all the way to use in the commercial world. So explain where you are now with the taking your technology to market?

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

socalTECH

Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator. Markets now, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Las Vegas. An example of that is the UCLA flood. What drove your interest in this area? We''re in four major U.S.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

Tech Zulu Event

Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures. philosophie has worked with some of the world’s biggest names: Google, Nissan, Nintendo, UCLA, and more. Marketing: SteelHouse. An ad:tech Innovation Award-winning company, SteelHouse is the technology industry’s real-time marketing solution for online retailers.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

Tech Zulu Event

Many thanks to everyone who participated in last night’s Spotlight: LA Tech at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. 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.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA). Ask if you could shadow different functions like marketing, finance or product management.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

I was in charge of all product management and marketing for the first year-and-a-half, that was a great learning experience with a very talented team of folks. The Startonomics conference at UCLA Anderson business school, hosted by DealMaker Media, was a great event for the talks as well as the networking.

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