Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2012

An underutilized, but valuable resource, every startup should investigate is a formal or informal connection to your alma mater, or even any local university. Here is a short list of the areas where you should be able to find help, whether you are a student or an independent entrepreneur: Exploring hot ideas. Connections to a mentor.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Every entrepreneur at some point has probably felt like this and asked themselves the question: “now what?” Well, perhaps it’s time to consider an incubator/accelerator program: Programs like Silicon Valleys’ Y Combinator which essentially put entrepreneurs through a 3+ month startup boot camp.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 15, 2011

The 10th Annual Techweek will be hosted once again at the award-winning Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County - California's largest high tech business incubator located in Altadena (near Caltech, JPL and other major research institutions). See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The 10th Annual Techweek will be hosted once again at the award-winning Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County - California's largest high tech business incubator located in Altadena (near Caltech, JPL and other major research institutions). See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The 10th Annual Techweek will be hosted once again at the award-winning Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County - California's largest high tech business incubator located in Altadena (near Caltech, JPL and other major research institutions). See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The 10th Annual Techweek will be hosted once again at the award-winning Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County - California's largest high tech business incubator located in Altadena (near Caltech, JPL and other major research institutions). See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The 10th Annual Techweek will be hosted once again at the award-winning Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County - California's largest high tech business incubator located in Altadena (near Caltech, JPL and other major research institutions). See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

For today's interview, we spoke to Dave Eastman, the Director of the Viterbi Startup Garage, a startup incubator that is run by the University of Southern California, out of its location in Marina Del Rey. How are you different from other startup incubators, etc? It's the older 11 to12 story, 1960's building.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

An underutilized, but valuable resource, every startup should investigate is a formal or informal connection to your alma mater, including any local university. Here is a short list of the areas where you should be able to find help, whether you are a student or an independent entrepreneur: Exploring hot ideas. Connections to a mentor.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

There is a large menu of startup accelerators in the Los Angeles, but one of more established efforts in the area is LaunchpadLA ([link] The effort actually started as an informal mentoring program, but has grown and expanded to follow the accelerator model. Then, it turned out, all of those companies did really well.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

The real unique part of this program, which I'm excited about, is the marriage between the mentoring that a company could receive from both those with an entrepreneurial startup background of Techstars, and the deep, vertical knowledge of clinicians or healthcare administrators, who have been doing healthcare work for a while.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

The real unique part of this program, which I'm excited about, is the marriage between the mentoring that a company could receive from both those with an entrepreneurial startup background of Techstars, and the deep, vertical knowledge of clinicians or healthcare administrators, who have been doing healthcare work for a while.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2017

Anna Barber: Before this, I hadn't been involved with Techstars as a mentor, however, I'd been an entrepreneur and mentored at other accelerators. However, I always wanted to get into a broader role in the startup ecosystem, where I could help other entrepreneurs work on their ideas. That's exciting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2010

A little known, but valuable resource, every startup should investigate is a formal or informal connection to your local university. These resources are definitely are not limited to students, since every university wants and needs the real world exposure and experience of entrepreneurs who already have credibility in the marketplace.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2013

New entrepreneurs are setting up shop and the city is encouraging tech development with exciting initiatives. BILA) is an online community for digital tech entrepreneurs and innovators. s own backyard into one central online hub, rich with all the resources and information that L.A. that has quietly soft launched this January.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

Note: for purposes of this article, I am using the term “accelerator” to include incubators, startup labs and all other organizations geared to facilitating a startup’s early maturation. Savvy entrepreneurs - seek out programs which incorporate these post-graduation activities. Convert Graduate-Founders Into Mentors.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Big crowd of entrepreneurs, professors, students, and established professionals. I wanted to connect LA’s incredible entrepreneurs with the larger business community and with the resources of USC.”. Over $50,000 in prize money. Filled with innovation. Bigelow stated, “AIM was a very similar contest.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition to the 330+ students, entrepreneurs and investors in attendance, the event also achieved over 45,000 views on the TechZulu live stream. PIM offers comprehensive coverage in 500+ cities in the US, Canada, and Europe by providing rates, hours, entrance points, and occupancy information. Individual clips will be posted soon.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

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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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition to the 330+ students, entrepreneurs and investors in attendance, the event also achieved over 45,000 views on the TechZulu live stream. PIM offers comprehensive coverage in 500+ cities in the US, Canada, and Europe by providing rates, hours, entrance points, and occupancy information. Individual clips will be posted soon.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

“The one-day event will bring together leading executives, entrepreneurs and professionals to celebrate this diverse L.A. She has been interviewed by Tony Robbins “as one of the world’s leading lifestyle and online marketing experts and mentored young business owners at Richard Branson’s Centre of Entrepreneurship in South Africa.”

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Some have made the model work. and chartbeat.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Anyone who works with entrepreneurs will tell you that all are different. I’ve always wondered if there was some way that I could quickly deduce a new entrepreneur’s “sweet spot,” and optimize my mentoring to those strengths and weaknesses, maybe similar to the Myers-Briggs type indicator for business professionals. Specialist.

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