socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

According to the Tech Coast Angels' Richard Sudek, Chairman of the TCA, the group is looking to hold bi-monthly mixers which will help entrepreneurs connect with its angel investors, after a successful mixer in late 2009. The angel group also mentioned a web site design as part of its initiatives this year.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Friday, September 25, 2009 -- CommNexus HR SIG Presents: Retooling workers. Jan Cummings, M.S. will provide information on best practices in succession planning and career development, and Patty McKay, Sr.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

As more consumers were skipping commercials the idea of authentically integrating brands into media seemed obvious to me and ended up informing a lot of my investments in 2009 and 2010. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. The idea immediately resonated.

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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. We were founded in 2009 by Mark Suster from GRP Partners.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Tuesday, October 6, 2009 -- The Workshop: Get Funded in One Day (Dealmaker LA). MENTORS INCLUDE: Charles Halloran, Attorney, KPPB Dan Gould, VP Technology, Fox Interactive Media Dave McClure, Founders Fund Daniel C.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 10, 2018

In the Harvard Business Review Female Economy 2009 report, women purchasing power was predicted to control about $28 trillion in annual global consumer spending, if not more. Mentors help fill in the gaps and can serve to give you a holistic or landscape view of your industry. Final Thoughts.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

In 2009 Jed created a Google doc to track the seed accelerators. If you use the mentor-driven model that we pioneered at TechStars, you get entrepreneurs who are deeply connected with the broader entrepreneurial landscape. This growth led Jed Christiansen to base his master thesis on the impact and efficacy of the phenomenon.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 26, 2009

Wednesday, April 1, 2009 -- Agile User Group - ScrumMaster Anti-Patterns. Our speaker will be Paul Hodgetts, who has been involved in lean and agile development as a coach, mentor and team member since 1998. With the ever-growing popularity of Scrum, ScrumMaster has become a de facto role on many agile projects. See [link] (more).

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The 7th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, Exhibit & Workshops (www.SoCconference.com) - November 4 & 5, 2009 - Radisson Hotel Newport Beach. VentureNet 2009 (www.venturenet.org) - October 7, Costa Mesa. The Most Informative Chip Technology Conference of the Year! portfolio management - U.S. The right people.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. Working with early-stage teams : coaching, mentoring, setting strategy, rolling up sleeves: 9/10. That company was Invoca, which just announced a $20 million fund raise led by Accel. 5 years ago. Since then?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

www.SoCconference.com ) - November 4 & 5, 2009 - Radisson Hotel Newport Beach. Cadence, Intel, IBM, Freescale, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, LSI, X-Fab, and many other leading-edge. The 7th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, Exhibit & Workshops. Most Informative Chip Technology Conference of the Year!

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

We select ten per class, and help those startups connect with mentors and other people in that local environment who can be helpful to the business. That worked well enough, we did another class in 2008 with another 10 companies, and in 2009 we expanded to Boston. billion combined.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I really don’t understand why so many first-time entrepreneurs are becoming “mentors” or “advisors” to other startups when that is a distraction to your own success. My general advice is to do less. Easier said than done. And do the things that you ARE doing better and with higher quality.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

They have hired great people, have brought on great mentors, have raised money from top tier investors, and we are excited for a bunch of big announcements in the months ahead,” said Teller. Launchpad LA was founded by prominent VC Mark Suster of GRP Partners in 2009, and invests in each company that is accepted into the program.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2019

Kevin O'Connor: I've been doing venture since my first deal in 1995, and have been investing on and off since I moved to Santa Barbara in 2001, under the name O'Connor Ventures, and did that full time until 2009, when I started Graphiq, and switched back into doing another company.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Dan talks about a landmark case in 2009 that involved whether it was legal to strip search a 13-year-old girl. Of the 106 judges who preceded her 105 of them were men (Sandra Day O’Connor was the first woman). Now 33% of Supreme Court Justices are women (vs. 8% of VC partnerships, for example). But here’s a story that hit home with me.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

It was 2009 and it was terribly difficult to get any financing (if you can remember a time like that!) We have witnessed one hell of a startup boom from 2009-2014 which has coincided with the boom in accelerators. My good friend Adam Lilling and I started Launchpad more than 5 years ago . We had a specific goal in mind.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Allen Hurff: From 1997 to 2009, you could never really find a group of people in Southern California you could meet with at a cafe in the industry, but if you went to San Francisco, you could go someplace like 21st Amendment near South Park, and sit in a room with eight people and create a future protocol of the Internet.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. So we think we're the right size for the market in 2009. That's what I'm hoping to do.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 1, 2013

The virtues of earned media were recently highlighted at a panel hosted by Paul Bricault of Amplify and moderated by Ira Rubenstein , Executive VP of Media Marketing at Sony Pictures, as part of Amplify’s Mentor Series.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 1, 2013

The virtues of earned media were recently highlighted at a panel hosted by Paul Bricault of Amplify and moderated by Ira Rubenstein , Executive VP of Media Marketing at Sony Pictures, as part of Amplify’s Mentor Series.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

By 2009 had reduced to around $15 billion in capital from LPs. And hard for me to imagine the Fred Wilson and Albert Wenger weren’t instrumental mentors to David. But I became a VC in 2007 and wrote my first check in 2009 – 4.5 And reinventing itself. And some firms will go under. And others will emerge. hours / day.

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SoCal Delicious

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Read more » Recent Press The New York Times April 22, 2009 - A Company Plans to Market Illiquid Assets CNBC.com April 8, 2008 - Social Stock Picking Reuters April 6, 2009 - Bit.ly I have met dozens of brilliant technologists with fantastic ideas, ideas requiring nurturing, mentoring and support. Seek advice from a mentor.

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Tech Coast Venture Network

MARCH 9, 2011

Last year, venture capitalists and angels who co-invested with them placed $7 billion into seed and early-stage deals, an 11 percent increase from 2009, according to the most recent PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. “Most have a strong desire to mentor and help build companies.”

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socalTECH

JUNE 18, 2009

OneCubicle helps you build a career, through a jobs page, jobs listings, career advice, micro transactions for resume help, and an upcoming celebrity mentor feature. You can also use the service to network to your next job. In short, we want to be the bridge between Facebook and LinkedIn.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

We also had awesome group of mentors that included: David Waxman (Co-founder of PeoplePC, Spot Runner and Firefly Network), Paige Craig (CEO of BetterWorks ), Josh MacAdam (Co-founder/CTO at Ming.ly I’d personally heard of Startup Weekend back when it got started in 2007 out in Boulder but only attended my first Startup Weekend in late 2009.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

We invested all through 2009, and are currently seeking investments to do in 2010. By helping them, I mean the TCA will help founders with introductions, networking, mentoring, and of course capital; with business development, hiring, and whatever a startup needs. Scott Sangster: The Tech Coast Angels is still actively investing.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Took some time to crunch the numbers and evaluate our findings before re-circling back in 2009 and beginning what started as a blog. One woman’s success is another woman’s success – help, mentor, guide them, etc. We need to start mentoring more women in high school to get excited about the tech scene.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

In 2009, after their first round of investment, they launched internationally. Do you have any mentors, Investors? Our original German site, mitfahrgelegenheit.de , was founded as a student project in 2001. That said, the founders only committed to the project fulltime in 2008, when traffic hit over 1 million visit a month.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Founder Institute , founded by Adeo Ressi in 2009, claims over 4500 graduates, now up to 1,000 companies annually worldwide, with 90% of these companies still running. Expert mentoring and training. In addition to the formal mentoring, the peers you’ll be working alongside at startup incubators provide much more than emotional support.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Pablo Fuentes: It first started in 2009 when I was in business school originally. It was cool that I spoke at the White House last year about mentoring. I am very active in mentoring women and minorities. Pablo joins TechZulu and talks about Proven, job markets, and the future of mobile. What led you to make Proven?

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Amy was named one of the “Bay Area’s Most Influential Women” in 2008 & 2009 by the San Francisco Business Times, and inducted into the “Forever Influential” hall of fame in 2010. She is a passionate connector and loves to cultivate strategic partnerships and build communities.

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Daradiction

DECEMBER 31, 2009

Early 2009 I stopped drinking alcohol and putting damaging substances into my body and this has been given me remarking clarity and performance benefits. Got mentors? This is what I’ve been learning from my friend and mentor Duke Stump. and I’m like the Million Dollar Man, complete with bionic hearing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

With longer life expectancies and greater health in later life, older generations are moving to start new firms -- and mentor young entrepreneurs. The number of Facebook users in the US aged 55 and older grew from around 1 million in early 2009 to 10 million in early 2010.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 3, 2012

With longer life expectancies and greater health in later life, older generations are moving to start new firms -- and mentor young entrepreneurs. The immigrant rate of entrepreneurial activity declined slightly in 2009, but remained substantially higher than the native-born rate.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Dec 26, 2009). Often board members give entrepreneurs two bits of advice regarding scale: Get a mentor. Smart people who can solve other people’s problems very easily but they can’t solve their own problems. As my friend Stuart Scott would say, most people have brilliant “outsight&# and all they lack is some “insight.&#.

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Frank Addante

MAY 12, 2007

► 2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. The larger outsourced firms have a management and mentoring structure in place to make this more efficient and control quality; but that definitely comes at the cost of efficiency.

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