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What Mattered in 2012: Howard Marks, StartEngine

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Howard Marks is co-founder of Activision , and head of Los Angeles-based startup accelerator StartEngine. I think that the biggest news for StartEngine this year is our productivity. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? We have had a huge year in terms of sheer quantity. It was a big year for us.

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TechZulu Presents 2012 Startup Forecast | Featuring Science, Tech Coast Angels, Amplify, StartEngine, upStart.LA

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Howard Marks , Co-Founder at Activision / StartEngine. A 20-year industry veteran, having co-founded juggernaut Activision as well as Acclaim Games. Dan Dato , Mentor at upStart.LA. After its acquisition by Playdom, he was most recently head of the Acclaim studio and Sr. His passion has always been working with startups.

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Digest 5/30 – 6/5: Nant Health’s IPO, Loot Crate’s Series A, Snapchat Passes Twitter, RadPad FB’s App of the Year

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TIGERTEXT Works with Honeywell on Patient Info Product ( link ). ACTIVISION ‘s Overwatch is a Huge Hit in First Week ( link ). JJ Abrams Drops by AMPLIFY for a Mentor Talk ( link ). SNAPCHAT Passes Twitter with 150M DAUs ( link ). RADPAD Named App of the Year by Facebook ( link ). ARENA VC Leads $1.5

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

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In high school, he founded Solar Devices, a firm that sold plans and kits for solar energy products. which made a natural language product for Lotus 1-2-3 called HAL. Howard Marks , Co-Founder at Activision / StartEngine. A 20-year industry veteran, having co-founded juggernaut Activision as well as Acclaim Games.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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“…if you look at a lot of the early stage investors, whether it be Union Square Ventures or First Round or Jeff Clavier at Softtech or Dave McClure – we want to try the product, we want to experience the product, we want to get a sense of how the entrepreneur is thinking about it. You still need the presentation to back that up.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

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Everything happens in the browser (no software to download) and the finished product looks amazing on large screens! 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.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

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Howard Marks is a 30-year industry entrepreneur, having co-founded juggernaut Activision as well as Acclaim Games. We offer an intensive three-month program and provide up to $18,000 of seed capital, extensive mentorship and a shared work environment to help entrepreneurs go from idea to product to fundable business. Gold Sponsor. .

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