SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 19, 2012

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

Startup 113

Startup Santa Monica Mentor Los Angeles 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 9, 2012

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.

Startup 124

Startup Mentor Entrepreneur Invest 124

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

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>>.

Southern California 200

Southern California Web Mentor Los Angeles 200

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 28, 2012

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.

Mentor 113

Mentor Training Competition Networking 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2011

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.

Class 208

Class Mentor Web Los Angeles 208

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2013

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.

Southern California 168

Southern California Technical Review SoCal San Diego 168

SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 19, 2012

Friday, July 20, 2012 -- Green LAVA Meeting. Los Angeles launched its cleantech business incubator to accelerate development of cleantech start-ups by offering flexible office space, CEO coaching and mentoring, and access to a growing network of experts and capital. LACIis the business equivalent of baseball?s

LAVA 113

LAVA Incubator Coach Startup 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

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)

Incubator 100

Incubator Company Companies CalTech 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

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!

WITI 113

WITI Startup Incubator Los Angeles 113

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 4, 2020

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.

Commerce 207

Commerce Statistics Customer Custom 207

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

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.

Invest 340

Invest Venture Capital Startup News 340

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

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.

Help 68

Help Social Media Mentor Study 68

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

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.

Venture Capital 360

Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

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.

Santa Barbara 258

Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2014

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?

Startup 159

Startup Technology Hollywood Media 159

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. 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.

Startup 100

Startup Los Angeles Mentor Class 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

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.

Education 71

Education Entrepreneur Startup Mentor 71

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

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.

JavaScript 93

JavaScript Long Beach Java .Net 93

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2017

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 ).

Venture Capital 161

Venture Capital Funding Capital Startup 161

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

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.

Orange County 192

Orange County Southern California Startup Class 192

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 17, 2012

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.

Startup 363

Startup Venture Capital Coach Press 363

socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2015

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.

Startup 100

Startup Invest Resource Entertainment 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

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.

Mentor 84

Mentor Invest Entrepreneur Startup 84

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

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?

SoCal 104

SoCal Southern California Startup Platform 104

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

From 2007-2012 I scoured LA constantly. I created an accelerator & mentor network (Launchpad LA). He’s pushed us to be out in the community more. He’s even challenged some of our sacred cows on investment philosophy. I tried to be at every event. I sat on panels. I keynoted. I held breakfast roundtables.

Venture Capital 150

Venture Capital Journal Invest Santa Monica 150

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 21, 2015

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.

Venture Capital 108

Venture Capital Angel Satisfaction Equity 108

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. Sam Teller, the Managing Director of Launchpad LA hinted that big news would come soon. YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

GRP Partners 96

GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 21, 2012

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.

Startup 111

Startup Web Mentor Los Angeles 111

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

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.”

Startup 363

Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2012

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.

Hollywood 82

Hollywood Mobile HTML JavaScript 82

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

When the mystartupXX accelerator started in 2012, we had a very small class of startups in the program. As the program has grown, we’ve developed a strong track record, connected to many mentors who worked with the startup companies and the local startup community. Next, demonstrate your success.

Funding 40

Funding Competition Chief Technology Officer San Diego 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 31, 2012

The program kicked off on October 4, 2012. 500 Startups add that successful startups don’t just need great coders and designers but require scalable and cost-effective customer acquisition which they help startups at. 33 companies are in this batch. According to 500 Startups, “This is the first time we utilized an open application process.

Startup 68

Startup Seed Funding West Los Angeles Class 68

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of January 22nd, 2012. We leverage our network in the Los Angeles community to provide members with access to potential employees, mentors and investors. join us in proving there’s more than one place in California to create great technology.

CalTech 79

CalTech Idealab Tech Coast Angels Enterprise Forum 79

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Entries will be closed for company submissions at midnight of January 22, 2012. When: Thursday, February 2, 2012 – 7:00 p.m. Directions to the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter 2012. We leverage our network in the Los Angeles community to provide members with access to potential employees, mentors and investors. Event Details.

Idealab 84

Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 22, 2013

Professor Vijay Pande of Stanford University, Mohandas Pai, Chairman of Manipal Global Education and Vish Mishra, Venture Director at Clearstone and mentor to The Hive and The Fabric have joined CFI’s Advisory Board. He also served as a White House Presidential Innovation fellow under the Obama administration during 2012-13.

Clearstone 79

Clearstone Organization Education Google 79

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

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.

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

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.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Ideas Resource Statistics 109