SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background. How did it help you?

Product 150

Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA). 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA). Well now is your chance to find out thanks to upStart.LA.

Incubator 40

Incubator Santa Monica Idealab Social Media 40

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Internally, we look very similar to a tech company, in that we have a development team, go-to-market team, and product people, and the ultimate goal of what we want to accomplish is to create companies that can run independently, with their own management teams. How is this different than accelerator or incubator?

Startup 231

Startup Technology Incubator Silver Lake 231

socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2010

Gil Elbaz , one of the founders of Applied Semantics , the often unheralded Santa Monica-based creator of what is now Google's AdSense product, is one of the angel investors in San Francisco-based Triggit , a developer of a real time ad bidding platform, it was revealed today.

Santa Monica 133

Santa Monica Google Incubator Advertising 133

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

There were regular events where experts talked about: fund raising, term sheets, constructing a team, product development, establishing biz dev partners, M&A, dealing with the press, etc. Office space will be free and is in Santa Monica, walking distance to the Third Street Promenade. This education will continue.

Venture Capital 287

Venture Capital Funding Startup GRP Partners 287

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Tecca (www.tecca.com) launched a consumer electronics, consumer information service, backed by Fuse Capital and Best Buy. The service--currently only available on iPhone and Android--allows users to find reviews and information about consumer electronics products.

Incubator 239

Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

The idea, is to make it accessible as a multi-disciplinary part of Tel Aviv University, so that young people, alumni, and students with ideas for a company can join the fund, not only to be funded with seed money, but also so they can be accelerated and potentially incubated before they go out.

El Segundo 100

El Segundo Southern California Startup Santa Monica 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Science is looking to incubate its own set of companies, make investments, and otherwise work to create the next successful startups. I thought it would be interesting to raise a tranche of money, to have a platform where we could incubate our own concepts, work with the best entrepreneurs around, and build new businesses.

Incubator 196

Incubator Startup Commerce Userplane 196

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

I moved to the Santa Monica office of Microsoft Consulting Service. There are lots of incubators here-- practically every school or municipality has some kind of incubator--but they don't have an accelerator. The incubator isn't really as focused, and sometime might be more focused on low cost space.

Startup 221

Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. Rahul Sonnad: We did a seed round with Clearstone Ventures, that incubated us in their Santa Monica office.

Clearstone 124

Clearstone Incubator HTML Twiistup 124

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Erik Rannala: MuckerLab is a new startup accelerator, focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. He created one of the first industrial R&D labs, and hired and brought in a bunch of investors to help iterate, and experiment, and build new products. Erik, thanks for the time.

Technical Advisors 176

Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

How that works, is when you download Giftagram, you can peruse through gifts in different categories that we have set up, and see what products we have. They are changing all the time, and we constantly have new products and partners, as our inventory churns and things are no longer available, or if they are seasonal in nature.

Mobile 100

Mobile Platform Commerce Class 100

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. On top of that, god forbid, if someone gets E.

Startup 113

Startup Venture Capital Capital Custom 113

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

Sam Teller: Launchpad is an accelerator in Santa Monica. Last year, I joined up with Mark, and we raised a small fund and opened up an office in Santa Monica, one block from the beach. You need to build that minimum viable product. For readers, LaunchpadLA is all about? That's my first piece of advice.

Class 261

Class Mentor Startup Santa Monica 261

socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2010

Over the last few months, Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures (www.clearstone.com) has had a number of high profile exits in its portfolio. Sumant Mandal: I think there have been a lot of strategics today who feel the markets are changing for the better, and want to make decisions around new product, and now is the time to do it.

Clearstone 140

Clearstone Idealab Incubator Invest 140

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 26, 2010

Back by popular demand Schmoozd 3 is set for this Thursday, July 29th 6-10 PM at Wokano in Santa Monica, CA. Have a great idea and product but need that extra boost of CTO juice to really get it going. Where: Wokcano 1413 5th Street Santa Monica, CA. How about VC/Angel advice?

Santa Monica 71

Santa Monica LAVA Advertising Idealab 71

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

The consumer product they’ve created is called TrueCar. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Founded in 2008 in Santa Monica by Ron Goldman (former CRO of shopping.com) and Rahul Sonnad. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. And it carries no inventory. Competitors: Gowalla.

Zag 248

Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Be Great Partners , a Los Angeles technology incubator, has recently released a report on the startup community in LA and the information shows a positive growth for startups here in LA. The area between Santa Monica and Playa Vista, otherwise known as Silicon Beach, houses more than 35% of startups in Los Angeles. With Yahoo!,

Report 104

Report Orange County Startup West Los Angeles 104

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica. OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. Venue Sponsor.

Tech Coast Angels 105

Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Last week Howard announced he has formed Start Engine, an incubator located in Westwood and focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Community Sponsors.

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

the business incubator and studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones. Aaron Hirschorn: Currently, our investors are Science, based in Santa Monica, and also Ted Rheingold, who was the founder and CEO of Dogster.com. We spoke to Aaron about the company. Can you explain how DogVacay works? Tell us a bit about the launch?

Technical Review 164

Technical Review Startup Sites Malibu 164

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

the business incubator and studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones. Aaron Hirschhorn: Currently, our investors are Science, based in Santa Monica, and also Ted Rheingold, who was the founder and CEO of Dogster.com. We spoke to Aaron about the company. Can you explain how DogVacay works? Tell us a bit about the launch?

Technical Review 160

Technical Review Startup Sites Malibu 160

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Last week Howard announced he has formed Start Engine, an incubator located in Westwood and focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Community Sponsors.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

This past SWLA (February 24-26) was like non other and the 5th event to take place at Coloft here in Santa Monica. It’s also a very exciting time here in LA Tech with over 6 accelerators and incubators springing up over the past year. Startup Weekend LA has grown to become a very special event here in Los Angeles. What a SWLA.

Startup 66

Startup Mahalo Technical Review Idealab 66

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica. Dinesh earned his B.S. in Computer Science and his MBA from UC Irvine.

Tech Coast Angels 96

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

And post production. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice. So we’ve seen an explosion in the number of startup companies and subsequently a huge burst in the number of incubators. It’s becoming harder to distinguish tech companies from media companies. Many “tech companies” now have green screens.

Technology 313

Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

In high school, he founded Solar Devices, a firm that sold plans and kits for solar energy products. which made a natural language product for Lotus 1-2-3 called HAL. OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance.

Idealab 84

Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

23:00 Question from the audience: Do VCs have a preference for startups that choose to work with incubators? And I suspect that, at Myspace, he got a lot of experience on how to run a product at scale. 33:15 Have you noticed a change from 2003 to now in the “serendipity factor” of Santa Monica?

Rustic Canyon 279

Rustic Canyon Venture Capital Southern California Userplane 279

Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► 2006 (20) ► December (2) Just Say What it Is 12 Proven Guidelines for Rapid Product Development. I quickly came to realize that Im not the "slow-growth" guy, Im not the kind of guy that can do things part-time (as in the incubator model).

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development 40

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The narrow, 3-mile strip of land that runs from Santa Monica through Venice, and is now stretching down to Playa Vista, has been dubbed "Silicon Beach" due to the heavy concentration of Internet companies and executives there. In February, Googles YouTube signed a lease for about 40,000 square feet of production space in Playa Vista.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44