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Startup Mentors

SoCal CTO

Then I got an email that asked: I'm leading the marketing efforts for an early-stage startup. 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. Most of us are not Google.

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Miigle Revisited | A SoCal Startup With a Global Mission

Tech Zulu Event

We recently sat down with Luc Berlin, co-founder of Miigle, a SoCal startup that has an aggressive global mission to bring entrepreneurs together from around the world. You can be an entrepreneur and at the same time you can be a mentor or an investor to someone else’s project. Back then, it was just him following his dream.

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

SoCal Delicious

Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene. TMZ reports: “The Winklevii have their eye on SoCal as the new Silicon Valley (which is home to Facebook and Apple) thanks to L.A.’s So youve got the inside scoop on a story or topic that weve covered? Feel free to directly email us at tips@techcrunch.com. CrunchBase.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

Southern California has had its share of new startup accelerators launch in the last few months, however, few people here have actually experienced an accelerator firsthand. However Gmail is only private email conversations. We have some great mentors now. Ultimately, we're build tools for marketers on top of that.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

Both Sides of the Table

I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. So the team set out to solve the “chicken or the egg” problem by onboarding > 1,000 high-quality merchants across 50 service categories while going deep in two micro-areas within LA as our test market. The company was called Red Beacon.

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Interview with Scott Ferreira, MySocialCloud

socalTECH

We talked with Scott--who until recently, was a student at the University of Southern California--about how he created his company and how that investment from Branson pushed him to take his startup full time. Both have been great mentors ever since. First off, what is MySocialCloud?

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How TenOneTen Ventures Is Investing In LA's Technology Future

socalTECH

Despite a growing technology industry here in Southern California, local investors and entrepreneurs tell us there''s still a shortage of local, venture capital. David Waxman: It''s always great if you can get a referral, but you can also feel free to reach out to me directly--my email is on our website.

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