SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 5, 2013

Friday, January 11, 2013 -- Maverick Angels Investment Accelerator. Many entrepreneurs have promising businesses but are not skilled in how best to present themselves to investors. Many entrepreneurs have promising businesses but are not skilled in how best to present themselves to investors. See [link] (more)

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2013

I see now emerging a new wave of investors, popularly known as “super-Angels,” micro-VCs, or “super-seed” investors. Venture capital dispensed quarterly to startups actually declined again in the first quarter of 2013 to $6.3 So, in effect, VCs need to come in at what was formerly the Angel stage to grab the gems and hold them.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2013 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Thursday Jan. We have a line up of amazing speakers who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2013. The panel is comprised of Southern California’s Top VC’s, Angels, and Startup Accelerator founders.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 16, 2013

Tuesday, January 22, 2013 -- Los Angeles Lean Startup Circle. There are all sorts of challenges that intrapreneurs and corporate entrepreneurs face that startup founders simply don't encounter. How to do Lean Startup in Enterprise and Big Companies. What does Lean Startup look like in BIG organizations?

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socalTECH

JULY 17, 2020

Los Angeles-based Jukin Media , the viral- and user-generated content company, has promoted Lee Essner to the post of Co-CEO, the company said late Thursday. Essner--who has been President and Chief Operating Officer at the company since 2013, will share the CEO post with Jukin Media founder Jonathan Skogmo.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Big crowd of entrepreneurs, professors, students, and established professionals. All in a room at the University of Southern California Silicon Beach Event on September 18th, 2013. I wanted to connect LA’s incredible entrepreneurs with the larger business community and with the resources of USC.”. Over $50,000 in prize money.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2013

One such entrepreneur was Adam Miller , Cornerstone OnDemand , CEO, who kicked off the conference at ROC. Howard wants to turn Los Angeles into the technology hub and as such, will accept most people who apply to his accelerator, even those who have technical skills, but no idea what they want to create. 4 P’s of Success.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Santa Monica Technical Review Startup 93

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. And it wasn’t just Google Ad Words that originated in Los Angeles.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Over 100 Female Entrepreneurs and Thought Leaders Unite for TuesdayNights inaugural Impact Conference at the Annenberg Community Beach House on Friday, September 27th. Friday, September 27, 2019 -- TuesdayNights Impact Conference. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Hamet Watt , a Partner at Upfront Ventures, and the co-founder of bLife, MoviePass, and NextMedium, is reportingly launching a new startup studio in Los Angeles. Watt joined Upfront Ventures in 2013 , but has been active in Southern California's market as both an entrepreneur and venture capitalist for more than a decade.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2013

Yet 2013 is still projected by The Fiscal Times as a difficult IPO opportunity for startups, due to choppy markets, continuing fiscal uncertainty, and the Facebook fiasco. Sure, there will always some seed funding (10% of overall deal flow), but you can bet that this money goes to entrepreneurs who have been there before and won.

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Venture Capital Startup Capital Seed Funding 101

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2013

On Friday October 25th, this innovative spirit was put on display at the 2013 Student Innovator Showcase. The judges, which featured experienced entrepreneurs, investors, and professors, made their way around the groups and listened to the different pitches. This transitioned into the final portion of the event: the Fast Pitch.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A-Frame , a Los Angeles-based developer of personal care brands supported by celebrities, has raised $2 million in a new round of funding led by Initialized Capital. “We first invested in Avametric at Initialized in 2013 and he had experience prior to that as well.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2016

Startups Uncensored , the popular series of events around creating and running startups, is headed back to Los Angeles, according to organizer and startup entrepreneur Jason Nazar. As expected, the service currently has a large amount of data for companies in the Los Angeles technology market. Nazar recently raised $6.5M

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Many of us get that itch of becoming an entrepreneur. Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. On November 22, 2013 the awesome people at Coloft are hosting Startup Weekend LA.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Los Angeles-based mobile video sharing and creation company Flipagram , let by Farhad Mohit, has beenacquired by Chinese company Toutiao , the companies said this morning. Flipagram was first launched in 2013 by Mohit, a longtime serial entrepreneur in Los Angeles. Financial details of the acquisition were not announced.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. We'll head back to the beach on the first week of summer for a week-long Silicon Beach Fest in Santa Monica June 2013.

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Dollar Shave Club Technical Review Santa Monica Southern California 272

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2013

Ecomom , the onetime Los Angeles green products e-retailer, which had been led by entrepreneur Jody Sherman until his untimely death earlier this year, has been acquired by fellow green products e-retailer GreenCupboards. GreenCupboards said it will relaunch EcoMom in early summer of 2013. READ MORE>>.

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Social Media Acquisition Los Angeles Entrepreneur 159

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. in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

One of the myths I often hear as an advisor to many entrepreneurs is that their lifestyle would somehow be better if they could more easily find other people’s money to build their startup. In fact, Michael Dell privatized his company again in 2013 for a few years, in his words to “unleash again the passion of our team members.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

The rate of new entrepreneurs increased between 2013 and 2019, from 280 out of 100,000 to 310 out of 100,000 of the adult population. Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever.

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Tips Startup Social Media News 161

socalTECH

JANUARY 4, 2013

Santa Monica-based startup accelerator LaunchpadLA has just opened up its spring 2013 class applications, and bumped the amount it invests in startups. The accelerator--run by Sam Teller--is one of a crop of startup accelerators which have been the driving force behind the Silicon Beach startup community over the last year. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 24, 2015

Los Angeles-based online trending news site Opposing Views said Thursday that it is now seeing an average of more than 23 million unique visitors per month, up from around 14.4 million in 2013. The startup's chairman is investor and entrepreneur Eytan Elbaz. million unique monthly visitors last year, and 2.8 READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. He's also a very active angel investor and advisor to local startups. What are the technologies, companies, or things we ought to watch in 2013?

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 24, 2013

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 -- "A Night of Innovators" Hosted by CSQ, StartEngine, and Sky Dayton, founder of EarthLink and Boingo. The winter edition of C-Suite Quarterly profiles and interviews dozens of Los Angeles' most prominent innovators and revolutionary entrepreneurs.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Los Angeles-based StartEngine , which got its start as a startup accelerator but is now focused on offering up a platform for companies to raise equity crowdfunding, said Friday that a $25M crowdfunding effort by Elio Motors has been qualified by the SEC using its platform. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Equity Platform Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

So, without further ado, here''s the list of this year''s 2013 Socaltech 50 : Basil Abifaker , Transaction Wireless (San Diego, digital gift cards). Chance Barnett , Crowdfunder (Los Angeles, crowdfunding). Allison Beal , StyleSaint (Los Angeles, fashion). Greg Cohn , Burner (Los Angeles, mobile app).

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 11, 2013

Tuesday, January 15, 2013 -- StartEngine Mentor Mixer and Downtown Grand Opening with Deputy Mayor Matt Karatz - 1/15/2013. business community, and for our entrepreneurs to practice their pitch before demo day. A night to mix and mingle with mentors, founders, the Downtown L.A. The new office?s

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2014

We are often asked how companies get funded, why VCs make the decisions we make and what we’re looking for in entrepreneurs. I first met Andrew Stalbow , the founder & CEO of Seriously in August of 2013. Domain knowledge gives entrepreneurs an “unfair advantage” over newbies. (on The results?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2013

With the cost of entry at an all-time low, and the odds of success equally low, more and more entrepreneurs are starting multiple companies concurrently. For entrepreneurs who really try to be the CEO of multiple early-stage startups concurrently, the hot new term for this practice is “multi-table” entrepreneurs.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

According to the latest Kaufman Startup Activity Index , entrepreneurs are making an unprecedented comeback in America, with data showing the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 13, 2013

Saturday, January 19, 2013 -- Music Startup Academy. General Assembly is happy to welcome digitalmusic.org's popular Music Startup Academy to Los Angeles for the first time in the Academy's two-year history. General Assembly LA.

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Startup Los Angeles Content Acquisition 100

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 29, 2020

One of the myths I often hear as an advisor to many entrepreneurs is that their lifestyle would somehow be better if they could more easily find other people’s money to build their startup. In fact, Michael Dell privatized his company again in 2013 for a few years, in his words to “unleash again the passion of our team members.”

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Startup Satisfaction Venture Capital Entrepreneur 124

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In 2001 companies IPO’d very quickly if they were working, by 2011 IPOs had slowed down to the point that in 2013 Aileen Lee of Cowboy Ventures astutely called billion-dollar outcomes “unicorns.” And the truth is that several entrepreneurs prefer it this way. Seed has become an option factory for many.

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socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2019

What's the hardest part of being a startup entrepreneur? Minnie Ingersoll: A few things, but most recently I started by own company, in 2013. We write checks from $500K to a million dollars, and we like to fund engineers turned entrepreneurs. What do you look for in entrepreneurs? Minnie Ingersoll: So much was hard.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2013

USC revealed this morning that it has created a new, startup accelerator on campus, the Viterbi Startup Garage , which will help students and alumni start technology companies in Los Angeles. Southern California--and Los Angeles, in particular--appears to become the hub of startup accelerators lately.

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Xconomy

APRIL 25, 2019

Katelyn O’Shaughnessy already had a solid track record, selling TripScope , a travel startup she co-founded in 2013, to Travefy two years ago. Women, finding themselves outside of the club, are now creating their own networks to do the same.

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