Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

is already well above the dot.com bubble of 15 years ago, although we have slipped a bit this year from the high point of 320 new entrepreneurs out of 100,000 adults in 2011. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere.

Startup

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Tuesday, October 18, 2011 -- Los Angeles County Technology Week. 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).

Los Angeles

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 15, 2011

Friday, October 21, 2011 -- Los Angeles County Technology Week. 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).

Los Angeles

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Monday, October 17, 2011 -- Los Angeles County Technology Week. 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).

Los Angeles

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 15, 2012

One the most frequent questions asked of me by entrepreneurs is, "How can I become a Venture Capitalist?" The inquiry is common because being a VC is (to an entrepreneur, at least) a sexy job. Spend as much time as possible in the company of aspiring and accomplished entrepreneurs. Microscopic Industry.

Venture Capital

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Thursday, October 20, 2011 -- Los Angeles County Technology Week. 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).

Los Angeles

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 13, 2011

Wednesday, October 19, 2011 -- Los Angeles County Technology Week. 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).

Los Angeles

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? The event will feature a panel of some of SoCal’s brightest entrepreneurs who have received funding from TechStars, Y Combinator, 500 Startups, and Idealab and will be moderated by upStart.LA’s Co-Founder, Dan Dato.

Incubator

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 28, 2011

Wednesday, May 4, 2011 -- Where High Tech Meets High Surf: Ventura Ventures Technology Center. The City-sponsored Ventura Ventures Technology Center is an incubator for a wide range of tech startups. The City-sponsored Ventura Ventures Technology Center is an incubator for a wide range of tech startups. See [link] (more)

High Tech

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Together they envisioned a Match.com type of site for entrepreneurs to find each other and make things happen. In November 2011, they launched the CoFoundersLab.com platform. They took the “Match.com for entrepreneurs” model literally and hired the former CTO of Match.com to create the algorithms to help predict and recommend matches.

Entrepreneur

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

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. I was hired back in the middle of 2011, and have now been ceo for about two and a half years.

Software Review

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Data Elite launches at a time when most needed as most big data companies lack the much required funding and incubation. Limited big data funding & incubation. “There are many funds, incubators, and accelerators out there that entrepreneurs can turn to today for general business advice. .

Netflix

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. The movie, “The Social Network” might have had more of an impact on creating future entrepreneurs than any other event of the past 5 years. By 2010-2011 this had shrunk by half again, averaging under $15 billion. Thank you, Aaron Sorkin!

Venture Capital

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2011

For those that may be unfamiliar with Idealab, it was founded in 1996 by entrepreneur Bill Gross, Idealab provides a broad range of operational support to its companies, allowing the company management teams to focus on getting to market quickly and cost effectively and to take advantage of the serial start-up experience of the Idealab team.

Idealab

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Atlas Powered has raised $700k from Tech Coast Angels, Maverick Angels, Pasadena Angels, Angel Capital Entrepreneur Fund, LaunchpadLA, and Clark Landry. There are a couple of companies that have already done fundraising whereas at a normal incubator non of them would have even started.”. . · YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

GRP Partners

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Our list was far from definitive, but some noteworthy outcomes from last year’s selection suggest we’re taking the right approach: — Cypher Genomics , founded in 2011 with software to rapidly identify the genetic variations amid billions of gigabases of genome sequencing data, sold last November to San Diego’s Human Longevity.

San Diego

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? The event will feature a panel of some of SoCal’s brightest entrepreneurs who have received funding from TechStars, Y Combinator, 500 Startups, and Idealab and will be moderated by upStart.LA’s Co-Founder, Dan Dato.

Incubator

Xconomy

APRIL 16, 2018

General Assembly (GA) launched in early 2011 with an incubator in New York City that was a cross between a co-working space and a startup university. As Xconomy reported at the time, entrepreneurs and young ventures that set up shop in. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

Training

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

We spoke earlier with Cody Simms , Executive Director of Techstars America and who leads the program in LA, to hear more about why the startup accelerator operator is opening up its third accelerator here, why Los Angeles has turned out to be one of the leading sources for startups across its network, as well as Cody's advice to entrepreneurs.

Startup

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall 2011 Judges! A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m. RSVP: AGENDA.

Tech Coast Angels

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

So with out further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer 2011 Judges! OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of July 4th, 2011. Event Details.

Tech Coast Angels

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

What''s interesting, is that in 2011, there were seven large ad-tech firms which had all planned to go public and hired bankers. I think the incubators have a lot to do with it. an incubator in Singapore, and we do a dozen or so investments a year. But, most did not file their S-1''s. We don''t worry about that anymore.

Southern California

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 26, 2011

K5Launch announced a new accelerator program that provides promising technology startups with a three-month intensive accelerator program for entrepreneurs in Southern California. Date : Nov 9, 2011 – 5:30-8:30pm. Want a chance to meetup with them and find out what they are all about? Location : The Shark Club 841 Baker St.,

San Diego

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

She has created a successful model to bridge entrepreneurs, investors and the federal government. Today, Joanne works with passionate entrepreneurs who use data assets to disrupt business functions and verticals. Thomas Flake, Founder of PTI Incubator & Founder of bcause. As the President of Start Co.,

Technical Review

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 26, 2011

K5Launch announced a new accelerator program that provides promising technology startups with a three-month intensive accelerator program for entrepreneurs in Southern California. Date : Nov 9, 2011 – 5:30-8:30pm. Want a chance to meetup with them and find out what they are all about? Location : The Shark Club 841 Baker St.,

San Diego

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. We announced Fund I in 2011. So we went for it.

Venture Capital

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. Andrew Frame, a 30-something entrepreneur who founded Internet-telephone company Ooma, bought a contemporary four bedroom in Bel Air for $5.5 2012, compared with the same period in 2011. More Mansion Videos.

Los Angeles