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). Josef Gorowitz , Swagbucks (Torrance, online marketing/rewards). Amanda MacNaughton , PromoJam (Glendale, marketing software). Sam Teller ,LaunchpadLA (Los Angeles, incubator).

Southern California 279

Southern California SoCalTech Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 279

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Biggest new for CommNexus / EvoNexus: EvoNexus incubator companies reached the $95M in capital raised and two companies were acquired. What are the technologies, companies, or things we ought to watch in 2013? In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world this year?

Southern California 173

Southern California Technical Review High Tech San Diego 173

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 82

Netflix Incubator Class Funding 82

Xconomy

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Founded in 2013 by de Haaff and Chris Waters in the Bay Area, the company announced in July it had surpassed $40 million in annual recurring revenue from the subscribers to its software-as-a-service. Brian de Haaff wonders this sometimes, especially as compared to his own tech business, Aha. Instead, Aha is a bootstrapped startup.

Sales 100

Sales Software Services Startup 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

We caught up with co-founder and CEO Han Chen to better understand what the company is working on, and some of the complexity of getting their technology to market. In a previous life, I was Managing Director of a technology incubation firm called Kapyon Ventures. We raised our first round in 2013. What is ZeaKal working on?

Research 124

Research Technology Examples San Diego 124

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2013

He told TechZulu,”I figured the market could do with some alternatives.” I studied a Business Science with Honours in Marketing at University of Cape Town. We are based in South Africa, but have plans to launch globally in 2013. What are your 2013 plans? ” Here is the interview in full. How does it work?

Startup 71

Startup Incubator Marketing Seed Funding 71

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

ChowNow came out of incubator LaunchPad LA. Additional marketing support is available for email lists, promotions and custom collateral. ” ChowNow is anticipated to sign up 1,000 new restaurants in the first half of 2013 as result of high demand, fast setup, affordability and ease of use.

GRP Partners 73

GRP Partners Email Incubator Platform 73

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

By 2011 the market had started to change dramatically. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. It was clear to us that LA was now a powerhouse market and we loved working with all of the other accelerators in town. Market stage is everything.

Venture Capital 290

Venture Capital Startup Idealab Funding 290

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

One team, a travel company that has built a discovery and planning tool that will make it easy and fun for travelers to find and book trips, was a winner of not just the New Venture Seed Competition in 2013, but also recently won the first day of the Lavin Lean Model Startup Competition in San Diego State University.

Competition 104

Competition Startup USC Southern California 104

Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego, established in 2013 as a satellite of the Sunnyvale, CA-based incubator, has funneled 15 local startups through the Silicon Valley program after providing some coaching and other services in San Diego.

San Diego 40

San Diego Incubator Avalon Mentor 40

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2016

I eventually ended up here in 2012, where the company came out of an incubator here called Launchpad LA. We launched the site to the public in 2013. What helped you figure out that working with employers was a better approach to what you were doing with consumers?

Help 100

Help Startup Platform Santa Monica 100

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

—Colorado-based Webroot said in September it had acquired CyberFlow Analytics , the 2013 startup developing analytic software and machine learning technology to monitor the data flowing in and out of networks for anything that looks out of the ordinary. Webroot withheld terms of the deal.). I widened my net this year.

San Diego 40

San Diego Technical Review Artificial Inteligence Startup 40

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Research shows that such insights are actually the result of hard prior work on the problem, usually followed by time to incubate in the subconscious mind as we connect threads, before the ideas pop out as new innovations. Marty Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 10/25/2013. Breed myth.

Startup 94

Startup Research Ideas Incubator 94

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. We were going to be interviewing with Howard Marks for his incubator, StartEngine, in the morning. When I first came to LA, there was only a handful of incubators or accelerators.

Startup 107

Startup Los Angeles USC Southern California 107

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

He mentions head of marketing, Kristin Demidovich, and her “amazing skillset in getting others excited about the company’s mission”, both for marketing and recruiting. He attributes their company culture to her personality and believes she did much to motivate their team towards their vision, even while bootstrapped.

Startup 99

Startup Competition Entrepreneur Google 99

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. Richard Wolpert – Managing Director of Amplify.LA, startup incubator and Venture Advisor at Accel Partners. “The 2nd mouse gets the cheese.”

Startup 95

Startup Google Education Venture Capital 95

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Adam Draper – Of Boost VC, an SF Incubator/Accelerator. The panel discuss the fast emerging alt coin industry (cryptocurrencies that differ from the original Bitcoin protocol), and note that in one years time, we’ll see hundreds more specialty coins in the market place, if not thousands. Some rapid fire discussion points.

Startup 104

Startup Venture Capital Draper Invest 104

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 24, 2014

Mehrdad gives us some context on how long this idea was incubating. Even with a smaller percentage of mobile users, it’s market outside of the US was relatively large and made for good testing grounds. CR’s Android app was launched in Sept 2013 and ushered a big influx of users. What if there were a singles ring?

Startup 108

Startup Mobile Ideas Activity 108

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

I’ve been meeting with LPs (those who invest in VC funds) over the past year and discussing trends I see in the market and where I think we need to be as a firm to be near to and meet the needs of our customers. So we’ve seen an explosion in the number of startup companies and subsequently a huge burst in the number of incubators.

Technology 313

Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

275 IPOs were completed in 2014, topping the 2013 total of 222 by more than 23%. IPO proceeds also shattered 2013’s high-water mark of $55 billion, with an impressive $85 billion in proceeds. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. The world is a now single market, both homogeneous and heterogeneous.

Startup 108

Startup Social Media Entrepreneur Satisfaction 108

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

As in, not one company (even the largest, Any.do ) holds over 1% market share in the mobile to do list space. So with Fetchnotes’ latest updates (live as of Wednesday, November 13, 2013), you can now share your notes to anyone in your unified address book through SMS (it was the simplest system). What’s going on here?

Product 99

Product Ideas Email Organization 99

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

in 2013, with aggregate proceeds of over $38 billion. Twitter was one of the most notable, with a market capitalization now up to $38 billion all by itself. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit).

Startup 109

Startup Entrepreneur Social Media Satisfaction 109

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Today these are only legal in the USA for non-equity rewards or pre-orders, but the JOBS Act will relax the accredited investor rule by early 2013. Participate as a mentor in local startup incubators. In summary, investing in startups can be very rewarding, both financially, and in your ability to really help someone who needs help.

Startup 91

Startup Invest Incubator Ideas 91

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Some entrepreneurs, like Paul Graham of Y Combinator, and Dave McClure of 500 Startups, mask their focus on multiple startups by running an incubator or accelerator, and providing seed funding for a number of individual efforts. Cross-fertilization from current market feedback. Optimize your advisers and investors.

Entrepreneur 92

Entrepreneur Startup Resource Course 92

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Others are really marketers out to make money fast, and believe that they can entice customers to any offering. You go all over the country, the world, and the Web searching for “best practices” in marketing, finance, planning, and funding. Marty Zwilling First published on Young Entrepreneur on 01/28/2013.

Entrepreneur 96

Entrepreneur Mentor Framework Web 96