socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world this year? When's the next one?"

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 27, 2020

As an aspiring entrepreneur, one of the most important things you need is a memorable “ elevator pitch ,” to communicate your startup value proposition and leave a great first impression on friends, investors, employees, and future customers. Describe technology and features, not competitiveness.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

However, demonstrating that value to clinicians without a DEMO or a pilot is a challenging aspect of the market adoption. Clinicians must be convinced that this positively disruptive technology will indeed help them provide better treatment. We spent our first year designing the product with our world-renowned science team.

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Competition Mobile Startup Technical Review 122

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The LA-based accelerator is powered by Techstars and is looking for “technology-based companies focused on transformative media and entertainment experiences.” Also joining the team will be Yohei Nakajima , former academy program director at CoLoft, a popular co-working space for tech entrepreneurs in Santa Monica, California.

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Entertainment Santa Monica Ideas Mentor 102

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

One of the biggest complaints you hear from both entrepreneurs and investors in Los Angeles, is the lack of a credible, visible startup accelerator in the Los Angeles area. We caught up with Erik to hear more about MuckerLab, and its efforts to grow the Los Angeles technology ecosystem. Erik, thanks for the time.

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Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 27, 2013

” If your company was featured there (in the early days of what people called Web 2.0) The main reason that your advisors tell you to focus on your vertical, your age demo or your users favorite destination is that this is the obvious way to interest your user base. Here’s how you should think about your PR plan.

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Blogging Journal Press Startup 309

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

After some pre-game mingling, we began our evening with demos from companies that had been picked from months of company submissions. and web plug-in capabilities (Yelp), Storitz definitely gave the biggest eye opener of the evening with their revelation that Storage Units is astonishingly, a $20 billion/yr industry.

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Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property.

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Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. A technology that will surely revolutionize how viewers interact with content and television in the very near future.

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Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Last week I had two very contrasting presentations from entrepreneurs that gave me the idea for this post. Pitch 1: I had an awesome young entrepreneur come in this week to talk about his seed stage business. Pitch 2: This entrepreneur had a full house. A Tale of Two Pitches. It was a 1-on-1 meeting between the two of us.

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Venture Capital Startup Advertising Yahoo 288

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. Mobile Web America, Inc. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. Bill received his B.S.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Join us for an evening of demonstrations from vetted technology startups, followed by an inspiring keynote from Two Bit Circus Co-Founder, Brent Bushnell. Two Bit Circus combines engineering, education, and amusement to create physical marvels fueled by technology. Spotlight Companies. digmybrand. based BakeSpace.com.

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UCLA Santa Monica Mobile Web 97

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 Brad on blogging.

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Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The first attention we started getting was after we launched the company publicly at Demo on September 25th of this year. A number of VC’s stopped by our booth or watched our demo on the DEMO website and we had about 5 proactive inquiries. The first VC I met with came from attending DEMO. After Office 2.0 Folksonomy.

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Venture Capital Blogging Startup Slides 274

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this. There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. Twitter, FriendFeed and other real-time “feeds”.). Seems an obvious fit.

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Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 26, 2011

Spotlight: LA Tech is part of a quarterly demo series that will highlight the finest technology entrepreneurship in Southern California. We’re looking for companies with new technology to demonstrate (or better yet, those with upcoming launches they wish to promote among savvy peers). If you’d like to present, APPLY HERE.

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Tech Coast Angels Southern California Los Angeles Santa Monica 80

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Last Friday was the final deadline for all StartupDemo applications to be submitted and we are hard at work selecting the best Startups to Demo during the event. A co-working space based out of Santa Monica, CA, Coloft feels that Entrepreneurs are of a different breed; put them in a room together, and they are just that much more effective.

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Technical Review Software Review Santa Monica Tech Coast Angels 58

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Always looking to provide the very best for our community so that you may learn and grow as a startup or entrepreneur, Bill Gross is one of the best experts we could provide. A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

socalTECH

MAY 18, 2009

We spoke to Daryl about the firm, the founders, and their use of Amazon Web Services as its back end. When you sign, you sign with your ouse, and it's intuitive, and you have a choice of using a web cam to take a photo of yourself at the same time. It looks like you're using Amazon Web Services heavily in the service?

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Outsource Development Santa Barbara Education SaaS 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

But a new entrepreneur on the block is already reaping the benefits of choosing the road less travelled. According to her blog , the Material Mix software features a disruptive technology that commoditizes the trade of reusable materials within the current waste collection industry. One man junk, is another mans treasure.

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San Diego Education Platform Web 55

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Don began by explaining that his impoverished childhood drove him to a life as an entrepreneur. ". I had never thought about being an entrepreneur. They brought me in and they said, ''There''s this whole new thing that we think there''s a lot of business, it''s the web. I grew up ridiculously poor. Growing up. command a room.”.

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Startup Entrepreneur Design Santa Barbara 250

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

For those just tuning into the events, we’ll provide you the long short of it in play by play fashion: AOL owned company, TechCrunch ( acquired in 2010 ), who operates CrunchBase lists their database as “the free database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit.”

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Google 74

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses. Their focus is green technology. to 9:30 p.m.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. This Panel is filled with investing super stars who will be going over must have content for all the startups and entrepreneurs out there. Adrenaline Fueled Angel.

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Social Media Technical Review Mixergy Tech Coast Angels 71

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Participating in this event also included world recognized security expert and Co-founder of Fonality , Samy Kamkar , Danny Schreiber (Managing Editor of Silicon Prairie News) and Rob Jadon (serial-entrepreneur and angel investor). Guests, visitors and teams mingled away enjoying appetizers and snacks along with this LASW’s 3rd keg.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

The final showoff's have been selected, so that brings the count to a total of 10 showoff's plus a wild card from the demo night at UCLA (full list of showoff's below). As a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

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Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

August was a slow month in terms of traffic and I was away for a lot of the month, but there were some really great posts at the intersection of startups, technology, product and being a Startup CTO. He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us.

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Startup Venture Capital Blogging CTO Hire 191

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

One of the firms launching this week there is Los Angeles-based NativeTung (www.nativetung.com), which is developing tools to help web sites translate and create multilingual versions of their sites. Idris Manley: Essentially, what we do is we create a global layer for web sites, that supports multiple language content channels.

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Startup Technical Review Social Network Content 133

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2011

I know readers of this post aren’t in that demo but that’s what the data says. So I invested in Maker Studios , which is now the 3rd largest producer of Internet video on the web. But its objective is to teach the world web design or to program computers. Americans watch 5.3 We read less than an hour / day.

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Invest Carson Technical Review Education 295

SoCal CTO

JULY 13, 2010

10 Ways To Be Your Own Boss - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , June 18, 2010 The folks at Behance and Cool Hunting asked me to talk at their 99% Conference a couple months ago. You’re Not a Real Entrepreneur - Steve Blank , June 10, 2010 Who is an entrepreneur really? Yes, even bootstrappers. liquidation preference.

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Startup Venture Capital Slides Blogging 175

socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2020

The web is so powerful today, that Croquet allows them to now create truly collaborative applications that could not be done before. Right now, we're a web-based solution, and we have additional game engine solutions going forward. Are Android and iOS then your competition? David Smith: Actually, we work on them.

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Platform Startup Examples Web 168

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Next → Later today, the Startup UCLA accelerator will have its inaugural demo day. Program head Robert Jadon describes Startup UCLA as more of a pre-accelerator than anything, meaning the the ideas are typically earlier stage and the entrepreneurs less experienced. Love the student entrepreneur scene in LA right now!

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UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. This Spotlight takes place Thursday, July 14, at The California Institute of Technology (CalTech). Their focus is green technology. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship.

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. I assumed that the people of Los Angeles were disingenuous attention whores and didn’t know anything about technology.”. While real estate and tourism continue to be strong economic drivers, there is also a thriving business climate developing life-changing technologies. Cloud services.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57