socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

I had been seed investing and incubating businesses, and was sitting with a friend of mine, John Miller, who ran Caliburger, which is a 35 location burger chain, which is exporting the California lifestyle, much like In-N-Out does. There are now over 8,000 investors to date who have invested $1000 to $2000 each.

Startup 113

Startup Venture Capital Capital Customer 113

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.

Tech Coast Angels 105

Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2010

Over the last few months, Santa Monica-based Clearstone Ventures (www.clearstone.com) has had a number of high profile exits in its portfolio. It's not meaningful for the venture industry as a whole, because if you're investing in Series B, C, or D round investments, these are not meaningful.

Clearstone 140

Clearstone Idealab Incubator Invest 140

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Erik Rannala: MuckerLab is a new startup accelerator, focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. How much are you investing in the companies who are part of the program? Erik, thanks for the time. For those not familiar with accelerators and MuckerLab, explain what it's all about?

Technical Advisors 176

Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

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. OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. He received a B.S.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike continues to be actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member. OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

Tech Coast Angels 96

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

socalTECH

JUNE 17, 2009

Yesterday, Santa Monica-based SharesPost (www.sharespost.com) launched a new service of particular interest to the venture capital and high tech startup market, a new, online service which facilitates the buying and selling of private company stock. We organize those that are interested in buying and selling shares.

Startup 124

Startup Zag Venture Capital Equity 124

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. These days it’s Santa Monica and Venice. I think NY has always – by definition – been urban. You know the story.

Technology 313

Technology Rustic Canyon Cloud Computing Beverly Hills 313

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Known as the “coloftologist”, Chris spent the past year connecting and developing the LA startup scene by building on and offline community at Coloft, the most recognized hub for startup activity in Los Angeles. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

Idealab 84

Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. They recently exited their investment in Gaikai for $380 million while their rival OnLive (who had raised > $200 million) just went through bankruptcy. I’ve laid out my policy on seed investing pretty clearly and publicly.

Rustic Canyon 279

Rustic Canyon Venture Capital Southern California Userplane 279

Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

► August (1) Invest in Transparency & Active Communication ► July (1) The Fear of Success ► May (2) Optimized for Speed = 30% Waste Happy 1st Birthday Rubicon Project! I quickly came to realize that Im not the "slow-growth" guy, Im not the kind of guy that can do things part-time (as in the incubator model).

Advertising 40

Advertising Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development 40

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

The narrow, 3-mile strip of land that runs from Santa Monica through Venice, and is now stretching down to Playa Vista, has been dubbed "Silicon Beach" due to the heavy concentration of Internet companies and executives there. Talent agencies CAA and WME are incubating start-ups. MSN Money Investing. MSN Money Homepage.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44