Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

(In case it’s not obvious it’s a play on the Nike slogan, “Just Do It.&# ) I believe that being successful as an entrepreneur requires you to get lots of things done. Entrepreneurs make fast decisions and move forward knowing that at best 70% of their decisions are going to be right. This paralyzes most people.

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MARCH 28, 2019

Earlier this month, the annual Montgomery Summit conference was held in Santa Monica, including a special portion of the conference dedicated to the Rise of the Female Entrepreneur. I also think there's an interesting opportunity in Los Angeles, as the tech scene continues to develop and mature. I think it's a fantastic program.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

grant, to be given to a partnership including UCLA, UC Irvine, USC, and the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC), to connect university students with a network of venture coaches. blackstone launchpad student entrepreneurship program ucla southern california entrepreneur startup business'

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JUNE 19, 2019

Once you've exhausted looking online for tips, Los Angeles-based ProGuides (www.proguides.com) offers up professional, instructional content to help you improve your skills at such popular titles as League of Legends, Hearthstone, and Fortnite. After finishing a course, we've found they likely also want to find a coach.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

This week, Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures announced a brand new effort to provide health and wellness to the founders of companies it invests in, helping those founders with well being, mental health, stress management, coaching, and leadership development. It's a comprehensive bucket.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 8, 2018

If you’re an entrepreneur who would like to see this clause in more startups please ask your VC to include it in future term sheets and link to it from their home page. “We The idea was that if any head coaching position was open the owner had to commit to interviewing at least one person from an underrepresented background.

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SoCal Delicious

MARCH 1, 2010

Los Angeles By: Laura Rich February 26, 2010 It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But lets face it, when you think of Los Angeles, Internet startups are not the first things that spring to mind. Thats not Los Angeles. Okay, maybe not Pauly Shore.

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DECEMBER 27, 2018

Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year? Find her @annawbarber.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 23, 2019

It’s a problem that serial entrepreneur Josh Bruno has seen first hand. We bring a doctor, a therapy and a coach,” says Bruno of the new service he’s launching. ” The Los Angeles-based company has raised $5.35 America has an addiction problem. “Not a national service.”

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Launchpad LA today announces it will accept applications for its third class of Los Angeles-based tech startups. 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. For the past 2.5

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 18, 2010

There is no cost but you must physically be based in or move to Los Angeles for the 6 months of the program. Find the best and brightest next generation of entrepreneurs and help them to be more successful. John Morris from the Tech Coast Angels was encouraging me to do something similar. The rest is history.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The Founder Institute (www.founderinstitute.com), an entrepreneurial training program that originally launched by Adeo Ressi in Silicon Valley, recently announced that it is setting up shop in Southern California, with branches both in San Diego and Los Angeles. Do entrepreneurs need to have a particular idea in mind to participate?

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MAY 30, 2019

Our interview this morning is with Robin Richards , the CEO of Los Angeles-based CareerArc (www.careerarc.com). Richards--a serial entrepreneur who has been involved in a number of technology companies here, including NTI Group (sold to Blackboard), Internships.com, MP3.com, What is CareerArc?

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Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

“The Disney Accelerator has provided The Walt Disney Company incredible opportunities to connect with and be inspired by many talented entrepreneurs from all over the world,” said Michael Abrams, Senior Vice President, Innovation, The Walt Disney Company. Read more about startups in the Los Angeles area at TechCo.

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JANUARY 7, 2016

The Techstars Health Accelerator recently set up shop in Los Angeles with Cedars- Sinai�the second, Techstars powered startup accelerator in the city--in a move to help healthcare startups get to market quicker. It's hard to get that kind of rapid feedback, guidance, coaching, and mentoring in such a short period of time elsewhere.

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JANUARY 7, 2016

The Techstars Health Accelerator recently set up shop in Los Angeles with Cedars Sinai�the second, Techstars powered startup accelerator in the city--in a move to help healthcare startups get to market quicker. It's hard to get that kind of rapid feedback, guidance, coaching, and mentoring in such a short period of time elsewhere.

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JANUARY 5, 2016

rhubarb studios, the Los Angeles-based venture studio that helps entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life, announced that it raised $1 million in seed funding. rhubarb studios is constantly recruiting engineers, UX designers and product managers to work on multidisciplinary teams creating innovative companies.

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MARCH 24, 2014

Working with early-stage teams : coaching, mentoring, setting strategy, rolling up sleeves: 9/10. “I think the best VCs help drive exits alongside their entrepreneurs. I divided success into the phases of venture capital and 18 months into writing my first check here was my view (details on each in the link above).

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The creators of the renowned StartupWeekend — a place where random ad hoc teams work frantically for 54 hours to build a demo of a new business and then complete for fame and fortune — have picked up where StartupWeekend left off and have birthed a new course for entrepreneurs who need to level up called StartupWeekend Next.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Los Angeles-based Fuel50 (www.fuel50.com) You can find a mentor, a coach, a project, or experience, to help you prepare for the role you are looking for. We were originally operating as a coaching company, and we built out this assessment technology for our own clients. I can't help myself in being an entrepreneur.

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JULY 1, 2013

The incubator-- Greenwings Biomedical (www.greenwingsbiomedical.com), is led by Richard Koffler , a serial entrepreneur and angel investor in Los Angeles. It consisted of what today would be called an accelerator, which involves sprinkling a few dollars and coaching on other people. It was a failure.

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MAY 23, 2017

Our interview this morning is with Jonathan Zweig , the CEO of Los Angeles-based AppOnboard (www.apponboard.com), which has created software which allows mobile app developers--and in particular, mobile game developers--to create demos of those games which can be played without having to download and install those apps.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

I have been involved with a high profile one in Los Angeles – Launchpad LA – and we’ve decided to make a shift so I thought this was a good time for reflection. Sam is an uber-networker, savvy, helpful, product-oriented leader who had a great eye for young entrepreneurs and a passion about helping them.

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AUGUST 13, 2012

How do you make it easy for kids to learn how to be entrepreneurs--and not only learn about it, but actually go out and create a business? We spoke with Rudy DeFelice , founder of the site and a local serial entrepreneur, to hear about the vision for Kidworth and it's mission of creating millions of young entrepeneurs.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The Founder and CEO of Belkin International , Chet has achieved what to most entrepreneurs remains an elusive buzzword: ubiquity. You would have found me coaching youth soccer teams on the weekends. As we concluded our chat, Chat said something I’ve always felt embodies the ethos of Los Angeles entrepreneurs.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. I feel too many people are discouraging, and as a result, too many entrepreneurs are discouraged and give up. Los Angeles is a great place for startups. Tell me a bit about your background.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

The group--which was started by Richard Koffler and John Morris , two well known investors in Los Angeles--has been trying to help connect CEOs with interesting university and other technology projects. We're just trying to create more companies in Los Angeles, and to be involved with them. Thanks, and good luck!

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JUNE 13, 2011

Well, Los Angeles-based KarmaGoat (www.karmagoat.com) has figured out a way to help people get rid of those unwanted items they have--and provide those proceeds to charity. When I was moving to Los Angeles from Paris, I was sorting through my stuff, and I made three bags of things. Where did the idea come from?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

This second annual fest brings together technology leaders, startup CEOs, investors, Hollywood studio executives, entrepreneurs, developers, students and more to celebrate LA’s dynamic technology industries with panels, workshops, hackathon, mixers, and a start-up showcase spotlighting 40 local startups. In 2012 over $3.2 Media Partners.

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APRIL 24, 2012

Los Angeles-based WePlay (www.weplay.com) is hoping to be the site for all of that, and more. It's a very fragmented market, and there's not a lot of infrastructure to help those volunteers, who just figured out last Friday that they've got to coach their AYSO, Pop Warner, or Little League team.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 6, 2014

And here’s an important point that I think modern entrepreneurs often forget: Investors are “co-owners” of your business. There are just as many bad entrepreneurs who do bad things. when to build out our offices in Silicon Valley, New York & Los Angeles. how to build an initial sales organization.

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APRIL 5, 2017

Diamond Bar-based LifeRay (www.liferay.com) is a company that not too many people have heard of, but which is used to run the websites for such well known organizations like Toyota, T-Mobile, Coach, Fujitsu, Allianz, and Sesame Street. Bryan Cheung: There are many lessons.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 23, 2015

So part of playing an effective coach is helping the team to see the answer for themselves. We talk a lot about his schooling, his early jobs as a developer and then as a VC and we talk about his decision to spend winters in Los Angeles. But unless management buys into your premise then you can’t offer effective input.

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JANUARY 1, 2016

We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. I’ve spent hours this week reading about the firing of the head coach and personnel manager of the football team I support – The Philadelphia Eagles. Empowerment is hard for most startup entrepreneurs.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Jon Sperry – a highly respected dialect coach who has worked with Harvey Keitel, Sofia Vergara, and Russell Crowe – taught a Stage 32 class that was attended by members from over 40 different countries. But most do it because they want to give back. There’s a community feel even to our education. Classes with a wide geographic appeal.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Here are the Stars of #140conf: Los Angeles: Aaron Ray (@redbaron1200s) - Partner & Head of Digital, The Collective. Cash Warren (@cash_warren) - producer, entrepreneur, president of Verso Entertainment. Cathy Brooks (@CathyBrooks) - Strategic Communications Coach. Cathy Dahn (@GastronomyBlog) - Food Blogger.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 8, 2011

I’m an event planner turned lawyer turned entrepreneur. We started seeing a demand for what we were doing and from there began throwing singles parties, doing match making, and date coaching. After this question, Val and I went on to discuss the dating scene in Los Angeles from both the males and females prospectives.

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