socalTECH

MAY 8, 2017

The company is backed by more than $67M in funding from such investors as Glynn Capital Management, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Amgen Ventures, Lux Capital, Redmile Group, dRx Capital (a Qualcomm and Novartis joint investment company), and Sanofi Ventures. We see you have the backing of Google?

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

At Microsoft, I was part of Bing Maps, which is Microsoft''s response to Google Maps. We now have a team of nine engineers and scientists, with experience from companies like IBM, Demand Media, and Google, all part of our core engineering team. An example of that is the UCLA flood. Ali Khoshgozaran: That''s a great question.

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USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2017

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has set out to boost the startup ecosystem in San Diego and the rest of Southern California—and he already has scored a coup by partnering with Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures, now known as GV.

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Southern California San Diego Startup Google 96

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

There's a tightness which is squeezing the lifeblood from the entrepreneurs, even as it remains an amazing place. But, there is broad agreement that it would be a wonderful thing to get more entrepreneurs and venture capital into the region. The first step, is to attract more entrepreneurs. You want those investors to be local.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

It connects to your linkedin, facebook and google accounts and allows you to collect feedback from any of your connections securely, simply and very quickly. This Spotlight takes place Thursday, April 25, at UCLA Korn Hall. The Entrepreneur Association is the largest student association at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. As a result many funds are OK with big bets. Get over it.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Follow PandoDaily: Search.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. downtown LA].

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Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Entrepreneur Brent Morgan feels the same way and believes the key issue is that we’re pursuing mobile innovation in the wrong places. As an engineer out of UCLA, Morgan has built circuitry systems for orbiting satellites and renewable energy drives for wind and solar tech.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Some entrepreneurs might be surprised you didn't want to sit on a beach in Bali for the rest of your life�talk more about that? I got super, super fortunate that early in my career, I was living with an entrepreneur, Randy Saaf, who was running a company called MediaDefender. He sold it to ArtistDirect for $42.5M

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

Despite a growing technology industry here in Southern California, local investors and entrepreneurs tell us there''s still a shortage of local, venture capital. There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. What''s the best way for entrepreneurs to approach you? Any advice you would give entrepreneurs?

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

We sat down with Jamie�who has been part of LA's technology industry, either as an investor or advisor since its very early days--to get his perspective on where we are today, especially as it relates to all of the companies he's worked with over the years on a more global stage and in Silicon Valley, and his advice to entrepreneurs.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

To solve that issue, Mike, as well as a number of other entrepreneurs here in Southern California, is in the midst of organizing Students4Startups (www.students4startups.com), a group which hopes to connect graduating students in the area to local startup companies. Mike tells us about the group: Mike, thanks for the time today.

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Startup Technical Review Outsource Yahoo 206

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The wide range of startups is great and creates more opportunities for new talent and entrepreneurs to join the Los Angeles area. Google, Hulu, Riot Games, Demand Media, and many other big name players residing in Silicon Beach, it is no small wonder why many tech startups flock towards the sunny beach-side view. With Yahoo!,

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 The poor guy. What a bad $200M decision.

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CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2012

Unbucket can be used by couples, family members, and close friends, replacing something they might have kept in Google documents or maybe just in their heads. Brian has a deep background in programming and also a law degree from UCLA. Elliot Darvick: Currently, Unbucket is myself and my co-founder, Brian Berman.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I was then brought into a fund as an EIR, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Epic Ventures. If you look at just Caltech, UCLA, and USC, and you look at our population base, we''re pouring out more engineers than pretty much anywhere. Entrepreneurs should seek those people out. That''s why creative people seek out Los Angeles.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2013

That kind of vote isn’t exactly encouraging to companies and entrepreneurs with new and potentially disruptive business models looking to plant roots here. The presence of Google and Microsoft’s outposts have helped to a certain extent, but Southern California can certainly do better when it comes to retaining — and attracting — talent.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Southern California 98

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

As part of that, we started asking professors for recommendations on who we could talk to, and we found out they only knew one person, or told us to check out a magazine, or Google this and that. Michael Chasin: We initially started with $30,000 in angel funding from an entrepreneur here in Los Angeles.

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Help Startup CTO Hire Pricing 240

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S. Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” Buying Google keywords will be popular and expensive. from Carnegie Mellon University. Big events can benefit from in-image advertising.

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Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

This second annual fest brings together technology leaders, startup CEOs, investors, Hollywood studio executives, entrepreneurs, developers, students and more to celebrate LA’s dynamic technology industries with panels, workshops, hackathon, mixers, and a start-up showcase spotlighting 40 local startups.

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GRP Partners MyLife Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 88

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Some events, like a recent Tech Coast Angel event at UCLA are really worth it. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Evening events in Orange County require about 2 hours of round trip drive time. It has to be a pretty good event for it to be worth attending.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

BCG, Bain, LEK – they’re all great), a few years at a start-up or a few years somewhere like Microsoft, Google, Amazon or Apple. Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA). But there are plenty of partners and successful entrepreneurs who don’t have MBAs.

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Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I was an electrical engineer, and had a tough time at UCLA getting access to resources I needed. Aaron Hawkey: We bootstrapped the business for almost six years, and we've had revenues from day one, from the first day we launched form Google Ads. How did the company come about? You've been around for awhile, why now for angel funding?

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Study Education Startup Sites 113

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

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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