socalTECH

MAY 23, 2012

Santa Monica- and Columbus, Ohio-based Fundable said that it is looking to provide a crowdfunding platform for "serious startups". Schroter is a repeat entrepreneur, who founded such companies as Go Big Network, and has involvement with a number of local startups in Los Angeles. on its advisory team.

Startup 224

Startup Santa Monica Incubator Sites 224

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Networking no longer is primarily a face-to-face serial activity. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive.

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Tips Startup Social Media News 161

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

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. Joey Flores , founder of Earbits (a Y Combinator company), a music-related marketing platform with interactive radio experiences.

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Incubator Startup Mentor Entrepreneur 107

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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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 not entirely exclusive, however. What are your thoughts there?

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Marina Del Rey Startup USC Incubator 150

socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

In an age where topics like Russian hacking, CIA hacking tools and the stability of the power grid and industrial networks has suddenly become important, there are only a few companies tackling industrial network security directly. Paul Myer: Veracity Industrial Networks is a startup in the industrial network security segment.

Networking 124

Networking Startup Incubator Orange County 124

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Our team has an eye for identifying legacy industries and nascent trends, and creating platforms for innovation. So this fall, we launched Science Blockchain, a new incubator that partners with leading entrepreneurs to build a portfolio of blockchain and cryptocurrency related businesses.

Dollar Shave Club 140

Dollar Shave Club Tsavo Userplane Southern California 140

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

What's the difference between an incubator, Maker space, and other accelerators and what you do? Noramay Cadena: People often compare us to incubators, but the biggest difference is that in an incubator, you are incubating technology. It's about figuring out your market, building a product that resonates with customers.

Startup 100

Startup Incubator Invest Resource 100

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like Brainly , which is a learning network or massively multi-player question and answer tool.

Startup 108

Startup Education Entrepreneur Tool 108

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. That distributed print cloud enables a speed of iteration that most marketers would not expect is possible. What is Postie? What is a print cloud?

CTO Hire 100

CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage. Our target market is entrepreneurs, creatives, and developers. Our services range from basically any platform service to enable an entrepreneur or developer or creative, to get online with a website, or do things like set up a blog.

Software Review 238

Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2013

Dirk Ahlborn: We are coming out of the nonprofit incubator, the Girvan Institute of Technology, which has been around since 2002, and is funded by NASA Ames. It is one of the older incubators in Los Angeles, even though not a lot of people know about it. Once we have formed a company, that company can use our platform for crowdfunding.

Ideas 178

Ideas Patents Funding Startup 178

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2013

a crowd-powered platform that gives accredited investors access to exclusive deal flow and technology transfer opportunities has launched in beta its crowd-powered portal for startups, JumpStartFund. Social network for investors. How its online incubation works. El Segundo, CA based JumpStarter Inc.,

El Segundo 76

El Segundo Social Network Startup Patents 76

socalTECH

AUGUST 22, 2016

According to the accelerator, it has added Greenfly (content creation and distribution); Keemotion (sports video streaming for broadcasters, professional leagues, and universities); ShotTracker (basketball stats); Renegade (sports detergents); and WSC Technologies (personalized sports video platform) to the program.

Class 100

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like Brainly , which is a learning network or massively multi-player question and answer tool.

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Entrepreneur Tips Startup Education 137

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

We've done that, by bringing some really, cool, awesome curated gifts to our platform, and made it really easy to send those to people in essentially two clicks. The other, interesting part of our platform, is it integrates with all of your contacts. We have a fairly broad network and set of folks who are supportive of us there.

Mobile 100

Mobile Platform Commerce Class 100

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

In homage to The Dude’s sentiment, tech startup Akanda Virtual Networking named its open source project The Rug because it “ties together” OpenStack networks by managing orchestration, routing and other key network services. Their attempts to architect software automation for physical networks were a bridge too far.

IBM 100

IBM IBM Networking Software 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

.” All events are going to be quality one-day conferences with amazing speakers, parties and opportunities to network with new friends and see old friends which is why I’m returning to attend. That said, YouTube Network Fullscreen platform is blazing this new trail with 2.5 This is the wave of the future.

Hollywood 100

Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

This is the city we call home, and we are proud to have the opportunity to utilize our networks to drive this initiative forward and make city living better for everyone.”. Wearable World, Inc. , Our city is home to some of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies the world has ever known.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Sure, there are some fun things you can create quickly on platforms like Facebook that may get viral uptake. Further, while some viral pick-up or online marketing is possible in certain startups, if anything, marketing and sales has become harder because of fragmented attention. I don't really agree that $100K is the new $1M.

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Venture Capital Startup Incubator Examples 150

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Founded in London in 2006, the Hub is a global network of social enterprises with each individual chapter acting as a gathering place for innovation, technology, creativity, and positive change. Marketing: SteelHouse. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award.

Startup 111

Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2014

Wi-Fi hotspots aren’t new by any means (duh) but this was the first time I’d heard of Karma and their always maintaining open wifi networks, no contracts, and pay it forward mantra which rewards both hub owners and would be wifi users with free data incentives. Amanda talks a bit about life working for an incubator.

Outsource Development 108

Outsource Development Startup Incubator Press 108

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

However, we''ve developed a formula of what, and how we look at deals, and have built out our own advisory network, where we use domain experts to vet deals out. We feel that we can really help with manufacturing and bringing products to market. We''ve also had a pretty wide range of check writing in terms of amount.

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Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha works tirelessly to build a platform of advocacy around issues such as tech inclusion, diversity, and education. Thomas Flake, Founder of PTI Incubator & Founder of bcause. He has over a decade of portfolio management in capital markets. Blackwell, iTech Program Executive & OCT Innovation Liaison, NASA.

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Sellbot, an e-commerce platform for sellers made by USC graduates Michael and Payam Ahdoot, took home the grand prize of $25,000. Sellbot helps online sellers sell through multiple platforms. In the end, 3 startups were awarded prize money for their spectacular business ideas. Bigelow stated, “AIM was a very similar contest.

USC 98

USC Cornerstone OnDemand Southern California Netflix 98

Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego, established in 2013 as a satellite of the Sunnyvale, CA-based incubator, has funneled 15 local startups through the Silicon Valley program after providing some coaching and other services in San Diego. The other partners are Edward Adato and Daniel Schwarzblat.). “I billion under management.

San Diego 40

San Diego Incubator Avalon Mentor 40

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Minimum viable products (MVPs) are recommended for validating the market, with iterative enhancement to quickly meet market feedback. Networking no longer is primarily a face-to-face serial activity. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive.

Startup 61

Startup Social Media News Tool 61

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

It was a finalist in Marshall ’s New Venture Seed Competition and it has earned a place within IncubatriX, a startup Incubator through USC’s Grief School of Entrepreneurship, which currently houses over a dozen USC startups. If the online solutions that exist in the markets today were adequate, that number would be near zero.”

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Competition Startup USC Southern California 104

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

Buck Jordan: Miso Robotics is bringing the power of automation to commercial kitchens, and addressing one of the biggest challenges of the food industry, which is increasing production with the expansion of the delivery market, while also safely decreasing human contact. How did you go from running a venture fund to starting Miso?

Startup 113

Startup Venture Capital Capital Customer 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like OpenStudy , which is a learning network enabling massively multi-player study groups.

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 112

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. Diamond Sponsor. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group.

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2013

Glass developers simply upload their applications and marketing collateral, the SGL team reviews it, and then places it on the directory. These companies are active on Exitround and are looking to connect with startups who are disrupting markets and changing the world.”

Google 87

Google Technical Review Press Software Review 87

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

While great strides have been made in the mobile economy, there are still many challenges and opportunities to consider, and much we can learn from the market frontrunners. Mallavarapu calls Blipboard a social map that gives you location based alerts in a follower network, not unlike Twitter’s model.

Mobile 71

Mobile Technical Review Platform Startup 71

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

MIIGLE is a LA-based social network for entrepreneurs and innovators that recently launched its Beta version. The platform enhances the process of turning ideas into entrepreneurial ventures and growing startups through social collaboration. The concept of entrepreneurship is extremely broad; it’s like marketing.

Startup 101

Startup Ideas Platform Entrepreneur 101

socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2015

What we realized, is that using a platform like the Dodgers to validate those products, and at the same time, solve some of our own problems, made a lot of sense. That not included the relationships and network that our owners bring to bear, but also capital. That's how we approached it. It gave us an incredible view into the space.

Startup 100

Startup Invest Resource Entertainment 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like Brainly , which is a learning network or massively multi-player question and answer tool.

Startup 51

Startup Education Entrepreneur Tool 51