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The biggest news for Digital LA this year has been creating and spearheading Silicon Beach Fest, LA's first startup entertainment community festival in Santa Monica and Venice in June, 2012. This past year 2012 was all about forming teams, picking players, and choosing uniforms.
We were also about to build a really solid mentor network in a short period of time, pulling in about 250 CEO's and CTOs, from all backgrounds and locations. 2012 has been a remarkably interesting year in terms of developments in technology. It was a big year for us.
Wednesday, December 12, 2012 -- SVB Presents Amplify Mentor Series with Zefr. ZEFR Founders, Zach James and Richard Raddon, will give a presentation on the founding of ZEFR.
Los Angeles-based Launchpad LA , the business mentoring and acceleration program which has been spearheaded by Mark Suster and Adam Lilling, looks to be gearing up for its third class. According to the group's web site, it will kick off the next class in November 2011, and continue until early spring 2012.
According to Dreamhost, all of the startups accepted into MuckerLab's program throughout 2012 will receive one year of free web hosting services from Dreamhost, including fully managed servers. Dreamhost said that it is supporting MuckerLab's efforts, to help support the Southern California region. READ MORE>>.
TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2012 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2012. Dan Dato , Mentor at upStart.LA. 24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica.
At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs. Our founder, Yves Sisteron, himself was an entrepreneur earlier in his career and has been a mentor to us all at VC having backed too many billion dollar exits to name. I stayed close.
OCTANe , the Orange County-based organization helping to bolster the high tech industry and entrepreneurs, reported this morning that in the first half of 2012, companies participating in its startup accelerator have raised a total of $26.8M in funding.
He co-founded a prominent accelerator in Los Angeles called MuckerLab , that has produced a number of impressive companies and he mentored more than 20 of them. Natural mentors – a desire to help. It was perfect timing since in 2012 GRP raised its fourth fund bringing our total assets managed to nearly $1 billion.
How to find a startup mentor. In our features section: Interview with Blair Harrison of Frequency. 9 Ways socalTECH Can Help You With Your New Year's Resolutions. Southern California's Most Popular Tech Stories.
Saturday, December 15, 2012 -- Initiated by US-China Association of High-level Professionals (UCAHP), "Win in the 21st Century Startup Contest" is the first startup contest that targets entrepreneurs in U.S. and helps them to expand business in U.S.
Wednesday, November 7, 2012 -- How to Grow your Business in Tough Economic Times. ways to discover opportunities though mentors and advisors. Celebrate after Election Day at our Clean Technology Council workshop. Our keynote speaker is Ken Norland. His organization helped create 67,098 new jobs in 2011. See [link] (more)
Thursday, March 29, 2012 -- Cleantech Open. Beyond great networking, the event will include a brief presentation about how you can get involved as a volunteer, mentor, judge or more. Beyond great networking, the event will include a brief presentation about how you can get involved as a volunteer, mentor, judge or more.
Thursday, October 25, 2012 -- Eat. Whether you are looking for investors, a mentor, advice or just simply connecting for opportunities - this event is for you. Connect with Los Angeles hottest startups on Thursday, October 25th at the WOKCANO in Santa Monica. Check out what they?re re doing now, what the future holds and how they?re
The company was acquired by Becton, Dickinson and Company during August of 2012, for approximately $65 million. Apeel Sciences - Founded in 2012, after winning $10,000 at UCSB’s New Venture Competition, the company closed $1.25M in funding during 2013.
See there are tons of people who play the role of mentor in their own capacity. And a heartfelt thank you to my VC friends, lawyers and portfolio executives who have spent their personal time counseling me in 2012. So here’s to all of you that work tirelessly behind the scenes to help companies achieve greatness.
Saturday, February 11, 2012 -- Creating Successful Companies Through Incubation. Additionally, they reduce the risk of failure by offering affordable space and shared facilities along with an array of mentors and advisors that are invaluable for companies just starting out. See [link] (more)
Tuesday, September 25, 2012 -- Want to Start A Business? The Los Angeles tech scene has seen a rapid increase of women founding start-ups, mentors, investors and more. GITLA's SMW LA Panel is the hottest ticket in town. Aspiring entrepreneurs: Get Motivated! If you've ever dreamt of building a start up, now is the time!
Sam is the managing director of Launchpad LA and we were about to pick our 2012 class of entrepreneurs. Once off the ground she could attract mentors from her industry. How’s that for an ex painter? When Sam Teller first encountered Tracy he knew instantly he wanted to work with her. She’s infectious.”
The basic components are obvious: talented founders, great engineers, angel money, venture capital, access to larger corporates (for business, funding & talent), great education / research (for IP breakthroughs) and a sufficient ecosystem of mentors, advisors, executive coaches and mavens.
K5Launch (www.k5launch.com) is modeled after the successful Y-Combinator and TechStars acceleration programs, and invests equity, provides mentors, and runs a three month program to get very early stage startups off the ground. All of our mentors are investors as well.
It’s with profound sadness we mourn the loss of a true visionary, author, mentor, thought-leader, investor, and friend, Tony Hsieh. 2012: Tony Hsieh interviewed about the Downtown Project. By Frank Gruber and Jen Consalvo. Readers may be interested to know that Tech.co co-founders.
We select companies from an application process , and they join us for a twelve week program of workshops, mentoring, and business meetings in order to create value in our businesses, and also accelerate process for them. Our sister company, Turner, began Media Camp San Francisco in 2012. How long have you been doing this?
And while none has yet had the lasting power of the much bigger NorCal successes I imagine his next moves will continue to be closely watched by those in the know and the countless younger LA entrepreneurs who count Rosenblatt as a mentor may leave an even more lasting impact. 36% of all apparel jobs in the US are in Los Angeles.
A new startup Meritful, out of Michigan Univeristy and accelerated and funded through Ann Arbor SPARK has launched into public beta to unite both students and mentors or even teachers. Meritful is a professional network for students and mentors. If you are a teacher or mentor, Meritful helps you run projects and engage with students.
In a collaborative effort, Ria Consulting, LLC and Los Angeles Net Developers Group are hosting this event on November 10th, 2012 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. If so, then JS Saturday is the event you can’t miss! After attending this one day bootcamp you will be an advanced Javascript coder.
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. Marty Zwilling First published on Young Entrepreneur on 12/17/2012. Skip the ones who seem to be offering you space and facilities only. Peer support.
The founding partner of Upfront, Yves Sisteron, has been a mentor for me since 1999 and was on the board of my first company. And he led what is currently our best performing company out of that 2012 fund – AdoreMe. Many potential investors asked me, “Aren’t you just going to leave and form your own fund?”
Recently the firms two founding partners (and also Managing Partners) — Fred Wilson and Brad Burnham — decided to transition management of the firm to Andy Weissman (who joined in 2012) and Albert Wenger (joined in 2008 and writes one of the most thoughtful blogs in our industry ).
With the SOLD OUT Startup Weekend Los Angeles quickly approaching (February 24th-26th, 2012) it’s time to start getting in the creation mindset. located at 5155 Old Ironside Drive, Santa Clara, California 95054, from February 24, 2012 to February 26, 2012.
Y Combinator , led by Paul Graham, claimed success in 2012 with 172 companies over 7 years, which then had a combined value of $7.78 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. Peer support.
We first interviewed Luc in 2012, just as he was launching the prototype for Miigle. You can be an entrepreneur and at the same time you can be a mentor or an investor to someone else’s project. In 2012 Miigle was just in its beginning stages. How much has the product changed from where it was in 2012 and where it is today?
In 1987, Kricfalusi’s mentor, ‘Ralph Bakshi’ , “saved” him by hiring him as supervising director on his show “The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse” where he and Ralph reintroduced the classic cartoon unit system and put cartoonists back in control of all the creative decisions.
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. Sam Teller, the Managing Director of Launchpad LA hinted that big news would come soon. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7
But these requirements may go away with the Crowdfunding JOBS Act passed into law back in 2012. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you.
Yet as I mentor entrepreneurs around the country, it still seems to be one of the least understood approaches to startup funding, with more myths than accredited angels and professional venture capital investors combined. Even with this, crowdfunding today means any one of the following five quite different models: Rewards model.
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. Since then, we've replicated the model with a local managing director, local mentors, and have expanded to roughly 25 different programs around the world. billion combined.
There were only 22% women who invested in 2012. We have three main components: education, mentoring, and practice. In mentoring, we match experienced angel investors with, what I like to call them, “angels-in-training” so they can share the lessons learned. There are a lot of mentoring programs out there.
Based on my experience as a mentor and an entrepreneur, if you fail on your first startup, you are about average. Marty Zwilling First published on Young Entrepreneur on 9/14/2012. That’s not bad, but who wants to be average? Every young entrepreneur knows implicitly that startup success is a long hard road.
When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Directions to the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter 2012. Start Engine offers a team of mentors who have proven themselves as successful entrepreneurs – not professional investors – ensuring that its startups are guided by the right people for the right reasons. Event Details. to 10:00 p.m.
On July 27, 2012 the AT&T Developer Program and Apigee produced the Mobile App Hackathon in Los Angeles, California. There were people walking around the room with orange ties called Senseis that were there specifically to mentor and support developers with programming issues.
Tucker Kain: In 2012, when the current ownership group bought the Dodgers, the group they pulled together was pretty heavily investment focused. How did the idea to launch your own accelerator come about? They all had come from backgrounds as investment professionals, which is how they had built their own businesses.
Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. Incubators are a great place to learn about potentially great startups, and participating as a mentor helps you learn which ones are a good fit for you. Marty Zwilling First published on Forbes on 9/21/2012. Successful startups are all about the execution.
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