SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 4, 2012

Thursday, May 10, 2012 -- Deciding Your Ownership Structure. If you have a business concept and want to learn more about becoming a successful entrepreneur, you are invited to attend. Email ron.pardee@rcc.edu. Entrepreneurship @ RCC.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 3, 2012

Thursday, May 3, 2012 -- Deciding Your Ownership Structure. If you have a business concept and want to learn more about becoming a successful entrepreneur, you are invited to attend. Email ron.pardee@rcc.edu. Entrepreneurship @ RCC.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 19, 2012

Friday, May 25, 2012 -- Creating and Presenting Your Business Plan. If you have a business concept and want to learn more about becoming a successful entrepreneur, you are invited to attend. Email ron.pardee@rcc.edu. Entrepreneurship @ RCC.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2013

According to the most recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were approximately 514,000 new businesses created per month in the US in 2012. So what’s an entrepreneur to do to get his new business noticed these days? Getting noticed is not about ego or being the center of attention. How about yours?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

It’s what life was like as an entrepreneur. I’ve been on the road much of 2012 and part of 2011. I plan to write about it early next year when we’re all through. But this is nothing like the stress of being an entrepreneur. What’s it really like being an entrepreneur? And so it goes again.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 15, 2012

I received dozens of long emails each day with press releases, pitches, news and information. Most emails were nothing short of a report. I can’t even begin to imagine what investors feel like when they’re being pitched by so many people, week after week, or some CEO’s that receive 2000+ emails each day.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

HIGHEST DEGREE OBTAINED BY AMERICA'S 400 RICHEST PEOPLE Source: Forbes Magazine, Jan 2012. According to a January 2012 Forbes article, nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. For many entrepreneurs, college has little appeal. Entrepreneurs are misfits. Or we’ll give it to you.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. 7 times out of 10 he knows what’s going on before I do and is either slipping a paper on my desk, texting me or emailing me something about to go down. Greg truly is a prolific deal maker and is amongst the most helpful people to entrepreneurs in our ecosystem. I keynoted.

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Tech.Co

MAY 21, 2016

About a year ago we introduced you to VNTANA , an Los Angeles, CA-based startup that wanted to leverage hologram technology to help celebrities and brands use holograms to entertain and engage their followers and fans. VNTANA was founded in 2012 and has since become a leader in social augmented reality.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 4, 2013

By 2012, total sales exceeded 50 million copies and founding band member Roger Waters was cited by Forbes as the second highest paid musician of the year, pulling in $88 million. Entrepreneurs can learn a great deal from the manner in which Pink Floyd created DSOTM. Entrepreneurs should always err on the side of long-term gain.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 8, 2012

For those of you who may have missed out you can checkout what Mediapost and D&B had to say about it: TZ Tech Crawl Takes Participants on a Tour of Silicon Beach. 2012 TechZulu Tech Crawl – Technically Awesome. When: August 30, 2012 6-11pm. Join TechZulu on a tour of some of the hottest Silicon Beach tech companies.

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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. We first interviewed Luc in 2012, just as he was launching the prototype for Miigle. Back then, it was just him following his dream. Again, we’ve made this very easy.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 23, 2012

For those of you who may have missed out you can checkout what Mediapost and D&B had to say about it: TZ Tech Crawl Takes Participants on a Tour of Silicon Beach. 2012 TechZulu Tech Crawl – Technically Awesome. When: November 9, 2012 6-11pm. A tour of some of the hottest Hollywood tech companies. Where: Hollywood, CA.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

For those of you who may have missed out you can checkout what Mediapost and D&B had to say about it: TZ Tech Crawl Takes Participants on a Tour of Silicon Beach. 2012 TechZulu Tech Crawl – Technically Awesome. When: October 4, 2012 6-11pm. The Tech Crawl is back and in full swing heading to Santa Monica Silicon Beach area!

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InfoChachkie

JULY 18, 2012

Entrepreneurs are inundated with success stories, but far less is written about ventures that do not succeed. Most entrepreneurs do not have the guts to publicly discuss a venture gone awry. It’s simply about a team of dedicated individuals that failed. In May of 2012, sales dropped drastically. It was over.

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InfoChachkie

JULY 30, 2012

Thus, I was inspired when I heard about the impact collaboration-in-the-cloud innovator Central Desktop made at the April 2012 San Francisco ad:tech conference. This initial, casual conversation led to a deeper discussion about the company’s products. Serial entrepreneur Seth Epstein is an incredible marketer.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

There were only 22% women who invested in 2012. TechZulu speaks with Natalia about Pipeline Foundation and her goals to change the face of business and investment. What is Pipeline Fellowship about? We like to give women a chance to see and learn all about investing and what it takes to become an angel investor.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2013

For those of you who may have missed out you can checkout what Mediapost and D&B had to say about it: TZ Tech Crawl Takes Participants on a Tour of Silicon Beach. 2012 TechZulu Tech Crawl – Technically Awesome. Email info@techzulu.com with the subject line “TZ Tech Crawl Host.” When: Thursday, May 23, 6-11pm PT.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2017

If you think about what you see with marketplaces in the more traditional areas of hotel rentals, airline reservations, and marketplaces like Priceline, Expedia, and so forth, we're bringing that to the construction rental industry. Scott Cannon: We started in 2012, when it was basically a couple of people on a telephone and the yellow pages.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Wednesday November 20 th , 2013 was a special day for the technology entrepreneurs at the University of Southern California. The USC Entrepreneur Club and the Kairos Society brought Howard Marks , a successful entrepreneur and founder and CEO of StartEngine , on campus to speak about his past experiences. The Journey.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Santa Monica startup airline Surf Air has been spreading its wings in recent months and spreading the word about its initiatives at Silicon Beach events such as Social Media Week LA and Techweek LA. Surf Air CEO and Co-Founder Wade Eyerly spoke about his startup’s progress and goals on panels at Social Media Week LA and Tech Week LA.

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Eric Greenspan

JULY 3, 2012

It’s simply about a team of dedicated individuals that failed. As an entrepreneur, my greatest lesson learned here was how difficult it is to find capital for a services business. In May of 2012, sales dropped drastically. The real story behind Make It Work’s demise isn’t exciting. It was over. Of course).

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Eric Greenspan

MARCH 25, 2013

As I began prepping for my talk at USC Marshall School of Business about the recent failure of my 12 year old company Make It Work, I cannot deny many memories were dug up. I had suppressed much of what happened prior to and after that day, June 25, 2012. It’s been 10 months and I really need to move on. I can’t blame him.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

It is meant to bring everyone together so that they can learn, network and leave with the sense that they now belong to a family of entrepreneurs, all trying to make LA a startup hub. During his presentation, Sam Teller gave people tips on how to connect with high profile people, who are inundated with emails.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm for our sector. For entrepreneurs there’s too much money sloshing around. “Yeah, we think about going every year. My general advice is to do less.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

I sat standing 1 foot away from somebody who’s been in prison for 15 years of his life and I had 60 seconds to open up to him about something that causes me pain in my life while he stairs into my eyes I found myself going deeper than I would with even friends or family. Similar men had just gotten done telling me about their own childhoods.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

We spoke with CEO Brad Brooks to learn more about the company. If you think about SMS, it''s proliferated very rapidly. That''s why people tend to gravitate towards SMS messages, rather than something like email. We''ll probably finish this year with a subscriber base which has increased about 7x to 8x from the end of 2012.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

I actually come from a long line of entrepreneurs. Those first six months were about. I am very meticulous about my reputation. Now my company is 28-employees, we closed a round of three million dollars in May (2012). Five Tips For Emerging Entrepreneurs. A Foundation Of Honorable Service. I started cold calling.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

In this article #StartupsEverywhere , I talked with Joe Wallace, CEO and Chief Innovation Officer of the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership, and Hank McCarrick, CEO and founder of Seco Sys about sustainability, emerging eco tech, and challenges in the ecosystem. Can you tell us more about your company.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

TechZulu recently sat down with east coast transplant Olenka Polak to talk about startup life in Los Angeles. OP: It was 2012 when my brother and I took our cousin who was visiting from Poland to go see the movie Hugo. You’ve been in school for most of your adult life, and this role of being an entrepreneur is relatively new for you.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2014

The very mention of the word fundraising can illicit some powerful emotions among entrepreneurs. On one end, entrepreneurs who have (at minimum) built something customers love and are willing to pay for, and the other hand, investors who are looking for the very companies who fit that profile. Where SeedInvest Sprouted.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

For those who still might be wondering what Spotlight: LA Tech is all about, It’s a screening room for new technology homegrown in our region. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

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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. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future? Listening to young people talk about social networking as a new phenomenon is a bit like hearing people talk about a remake of a famous song from my youth as though it was the original version. At it’s peak AOL had about 27 million US subscribers.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 9, 2015

Whether you’re a networked entrepreneur or just finding your way in the LA tech scene, TZ Tech Crawls give you a fun way to discover new things about the community and each other. Be a host company (must provide food / drink to attendees), then email events@techzulu.com with TZTECHCRAWL as the subject. . .

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InfoChachkie

JULY 9, 2012

Mark Suster , fellow venture capitalist and serial entrepreneur, has written extensively about YouTube’s evolution from dogs-on-skateboards to its current status as an entertainment medium rivaling cable television networks. The subscriber numbers and their relative ranking are as of mid-May 2012. He is not alone. Top YouTubers.

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