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MARCH 27, 2012

For today's Insights and Opinions section, where we feature contributions, opinions, and editorials from members of the Southern California technology community, we have an advice piece from venture capital veteran Jon Funk , who gives five things entrepreneurs ought to think about before raising capital.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 22, 2012

I recently posted about the Increase in Early-Stage Startup Activity in Los Angeles. In that post, I mentioned how one of the signals is the big increase in number of startup events and the number of attendees at those events.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The magazine turned its attention this month towards the Los Angeles innovation and technology economy in a section guest edited by StartEngine co-founder Howard Marks , including a reception held Wednesday evening at the Viceroy in Santa Monica. Big disclaimer: the author and editor was one of the honorees at the event).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2010

For today's Insights and Opinions section, we have a piece from Jason Calacanis , the CEO of Santa Monica-based Mahalo.com , host of This Week In Startups , and founder of the Open Angel Forum , talking about how running a startup has changed for him after having his daughter. It's a dream. Continued.). READ MORE>>.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. Tell me a bit about your background.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2014

The real estate impact of this activity can probably be traced to the 2011 arrival of Google in the Frank Gehry-designed “binoculars” building on Main Street in Santa Monica. But it was the low-key, creative beach vibe of Venice and Santa Monica that spurred a spate of start-ups to seek offices and homes.

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Entertainment Santa Monica Journal Belkin 108

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The Los Angeles area has seen a surge in the last month in companies and organizations looking to bolster entrepreneurial activity and startups in Southern California. Joining that surge last week in startup activity was Science, Inc. One, is we'll come up wit our own ideas, and work with really early stage entrepreneurs in-house.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

We have significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top VCs and successful entrepreneurs plus free office space. Office space will be free and is in Santa Monica, walking distance to the Third Street Promenade. CEO on front cover of Entrepreneur magazine.

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socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2011

As you k now, there is so much cool stuff happening in Los Angeles, in Santa Monica. I'm not suggesting that it's content, I'm suggesting it is the journey and the experience related to consumer activity. We'll benefit from Riot Games, which will further support the ecosystem of angels and entrepreneurs. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

24 7pm at Coloft in Santa Monica. A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded, advised, invested and sold numerous businesses, including application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media, Movoxx, PeopleMedia, Brizzly and Myspace. Dan Dato , Mentor at upStart.LA. Venue Sponsor.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

Silicon Beach Fest is LA’s original festival celebrating LA tech, entertainment & startups with panels, keynotes, workshops, mixers, and more in Santa Monica. If you want a booth, email wonji@nearwoo.com, including a fun activity for the public. The post Silicon Beach Fest Approaches! SBF appeared first on TechZulu.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

One of the biggest complaints you hear from both entrepreneurs and investors in Los Angeles, is the lack of a credible, visible startup accelerator in the Los Angeles area. However, we think there are probably enough great companies and entrepreneurs in Southern California to full up the classes. Where did the name MuckerLab come from?

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Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 10, 2016

Move our offices to Santa Monica so we could be closer to the early-stage companies being created in LA. He’s proved much more efficient that I ever was at tracking the activities of the community. Greg truly is a prolific deal maker and is amongst the most helpful people to entrepreneurs in our ecosystem.

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Venture Capital Journal Invest Santa Monica 150

socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2011

For today's interview, we caught up with Clark Landry , the chairman of GraphEffect (www.grapheffect.com), a Santa Monica company which is helping other companies to hone their advertising on Facebook. Landry is a serial entrepreneur, and active investor, having been co-founder of TagWorld. Thanks for the time today!

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Advertising Startup Santa Monica Social Network 198

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

There are always the hard core entrepreneurs, who will do anything they have to do get it done, and they'll work in the basement, they'll literally use their car as their office, wherever. We looked around the country at other co-working spaces, and see how it's been the hub for lots of growth and activity.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 10, 2011

South, a solid Santa Monica bar and grill was bustling earlier this Tuesday courtesy of the good people at Tech Cocktail and their winter technology mixer. Life Crowd – A group activity aggregator to help like-minded discover, plan, and join group activities. “Would you like a free drink ticket?”

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 27, 2016

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2016 Startup and Entrepreneur Forecast taking place Thursday, February 11 from 7 p.m. at Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Joe Guzel leads investing activity at CrossCut Ventures. Machine Shop Ventures was featured in WIRED Magazine for its groundbreaking new model.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Tecca (www.tecca.com) launched a consumer electronics, consumer information service, backed by Fuse Capital and Best Buy. We meet with a lot of talented entrepreneurs, with fantastic startup ideas. Why did you decide to incubate this firm--rather than fund something already in the market?

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

In the bay area it’s quite common for the entrepreneurs starting a company to be developers or technologists who can build the first versions of their products. Entrepreneurs that start companies in LA are often focused on revenue and business models. That’s typically not the case in Los Angeles.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

28 from 7pm-10pm in Santa Monica. Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency. Pierce’s entrepreneurial activities are focused in the areas of digital currencies such as Bitcoin, games, gambling, ad tech and payments. Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

And, if you're a social platform, is there a way to monetize all that activity happening on your service? Jordan Glazier: We did a seed round in July of 2017, led by Mucker Capital, out of Santa Monica. As a serial entrepreneur, what are you doing differently this time based on what you learned from your prior ventures?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2011

This particular evening, we attended the LeanLA meet-up located at Coloft, a swank professional co-op/work space in the heart of Santa Monica, known as the epicenter of the LA startup scene. These tidbits of advice certainly fell on attentive ears as we know entrepreneurs generally take real world examples and experiences to heart.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Recently, Santa Monica-based Geodelic (www.geodelic.com), the venture backed developer of location-based, mobile apps, has sharpened its focus to provide real-time offers, and has partnered with mobile operators like Verizon and Korean Telecom to offer up its services to those firm's customers.

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Mobile Santa Monica Startup Commerce 140

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

industry investors rather than VCs) a good idea for entrepreneurs. His view: sometimes entrepreneurs expect too much value from the partner. But he also says that it wasn’t a negative regarding M&A activities with competitors – this is sometimes seen as one of the pitfalls of strategic money.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Entrepreneurs like Matt Coffin , Kamran Pourzanjani and Brock Pierce were making their mark. That’s what comes to mind when I think of the annual Digital Family Reunion event held at Wokcano in Santa Monica. However, that wasn’t the start … Rewind to the 90s. Money was flowing with the first Internet boom.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 17, 2012

24 7pm at The ROC in Santa Monica. Amanda Coolong has interviewed hundreds of entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and influencers at every major industry conference, and is an active beta tester for many of the products she encounters. Moderator: Amanda Coolong , COO/Executive Producer/Chief Correspondent at TechZulu.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

To solve that issue, Santa Monica-based TigerText (www.tigertext.com) has been developing smartphone applications which replace SMS, and provide companies with the ability to control, delete, encrypt, and otherwise gain control of the messaging between their employees. What''s the biggest lesson you''ve learned, as an entrepreneur?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses. Sangster lives in Los Angeles and is actively involved in improving early childhood education.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 26, 2011

Please join TechZulu as well as Los Angeles tech savvy elite comprised of VC’s, Angels investors, startups and your fellow entrepreneurs, as we celebrate LA’s most exciting tech creations of the moment with the brightest digital minds and engineering talents this side of Fresno. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers!

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I was then brought into a fund as an EIR, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Epic Ventures. I think it all crystallized in 2010 on the Santa Monica promenade. David Carter: We have a dev team, and actively working on projects now. Entrepreneurs should seek those people out. Only companies we are creating.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2015

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2015 Startup and Entrepreneur Forecast taking place Thursday, January 29 from 7 p.m. at the Dethrone Base Camp in Santa Monica. The experience is tailored to each company — no mandatory schedule or recycled calendar of activities.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

We want to provide our audience with not only amazing presenting startups/newly released products (submissions still open Apply Here ) but also outstanding people that can help you grow as an entrepreneur and lead a successful business. Mike continues to be actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. Mike continues to be actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Please join TechZulu as well as Los Angeles tech savvy elite comprised of VC’s, Angels investors, startups and your fellow entrepreneurs, as we celebrate LA’s most exciting tech creations of the moment with the brightest digital minds and engineering talents this side of Fresno.

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CalTech Idealab Tech Coast Angels Enterprise Forum 79

socalTECH

JANUARY 24, 2011

We have about 500 pretty active users, ranging from agencies to major record labels, to individual artists. An example of that is, we might be able to show you the hottest concerts in West Hollywood, or the hottest acts in Santa Monica. Music is the biggest focus we have, initially. There's lots of grassroot adoption.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We will be bringing you some of the hottest startups around to give you a quick rundown about their companies and get to know the entrepreneur behind those companies. This Panel is filled with investing super stars who will be going over must have content for all the startups and entrepreneurs out there. Adrenaline Fueled Angel.

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