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MARCH 5, 2010

I attended the inaugural Open Angel Forum in Los Angeles back in January and wrote about it here. Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. The first event was a big success and brought out many of LA’s angel elite. Watch this space.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. For years I saw myself as the new guy in VC but then you wake up one day and realize that 50% of your peers have been doing it for less time than you and time has moved on. And so forth.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

StartEngine , the startup accelerator headed by Howard Marks, is launching its newest class of startups today in a private event in Santa Monica. The eight startups are pitching their investors to startups at CrossCampus in Santa Monica this afternoon. READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Wednesday, September 22, 2010 -- Startup Demo. Please join us for an evening of fun mingling with other startups, VCs, entrepreneurs, and technology enthusiasts, as we host our first Startup Demo event in Los Angeles. Social Media Week. See [link] (more).

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

Flinja , the startup developing an online marketplace for freelance college students and alumni, has launched to the wider world, after graduating from the StartEngine startup accelerator in Los Angeles. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Thursday, March 1, 2012 -- Schmoozd Startup Demo and Mixer. Schmoozd is back and is ready to rock the Los Angeles tech scene by showcasing a handful of killer startups at the vLounge, on Thursday, MARCH 1, 2012. Please join us for an evening of fun mingling with other startups, VCs, entrepreneurs and others.

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APRIL 25, 2012

How do you get above the noise of the many startup accelerators and incubators in Los Angeles, and convince investors--many of them on Sand Hill Road--to look at your firms? In the case of Westwood-based StartEngine , you head up to Silicon Valley and run a joint demo day with another accelerator, YouWeb.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Startup Boost Los Angeles has opened up applications for its Fall 2019 class, according to the group. The programs--which does not charge fees or take equity from companies in its program--says it is seeking nine early stage startups to take part in its eight-week program, designed to help early stage startups.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 26, 2020

500 Startups is scrapping its cohort model for accelerating companies and moving to a rolling admissions process, the accelerator said during its latest demo day. The move to a rolling admissions mirrors an approach taken by other accelerator programs including MuckerLab , the wildly successful Los Angeles-based early stage program.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 25, 2017

Wednesday, July 26, 2017 -- Startup Demo Competition. 805 Startups is partnering with the City of Thousand Oaks to hold a startup demo competition at their beautiful Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

The second major startup launch event this month, DEMOfall 09, kicks off next week in San Diego, with four Southern California firms among the list of 56 companies slated to present at the conference. Tags: nativetung totaltrainer traveltrac gorok startup demo venturebeat. will all be presenting at the event next week sometime.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

It’s a conversation that creeps up from time-to-time. This person had been introduced to me several times by angels and I was told that I’d be the perfect seed investor. For a combination of reasons I didn’t end up talking with the CEO in time and the company quickly became over subscribed.

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DECEMBER 5, 2012

One of the most recently graduates of the DreamIt Ventures accelerator in Philadelphia--which is holding its Demo Day today--is none other than Los Angeles company NinjaThat. The startup operates an online marketplace that allows businesses and individuals to hire students "on-demand" to accomplish tasks for them.

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OCTOBER 15, 2014

The Disney Accelerator , the startup accelerator sponsored by Walt Disney and being run by TechStars, had its demo day Tuesday, showing off the nine companies to emerge out of the accelerator. Disney offered up up to $120K in investment capital, access to entrepreneurs and executives at Disney, and other resources to its startups.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

Los Angeles-based DemoPit.com , a new web site profiling startups and technology, launched Monday afternoon, saying that it is looking to help startups and small businesses to demo their products and projects. Tags: demopit startup technology events. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

MuckerLab , the Los Angeles startup accelerator headed by Erik Rannala, is presenting its newest startup class today in a Demo Day. MuckerLab's prior class included such hot Los Angeles startups as SurfAir, Retention Science, Wallaby, and InstaCanvas. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 18, 2018

Los Angeles-based AppOnboard , the developer of mobile app demo technology led by Jonathan Zweig, says that it now has such app developers as FoxNext Games, Game Insight, Superheart Studios, Jam City, Huuuge Games, and Simple Habit using its tools. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 1, 2011

Justin Bieber is unbelievably entrepreneurial and most of you will never know it because he serves a target demo that doesn’t include you. I was initially skeptical, but it was a pure delight for me from start to finish. It all has to start from talent. Think of Scooter as Justin’s angel investor.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 29, 2012

Monday, June 4, 2012 -- aunchFEST Demo Night. Angel Launch, a new event for startups and investors, is producing a networking venture pitch, networking dinner and party the night before E3 Expo in LA for digital media, mobile and tech startups. See [link] (more)

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MAY 11, 2017

Los Angeles-based AppOnboard , a startup led by AdColony founding CEO Jonathan Zweig, announced Wednesday that it has raised $4M in a funding round. The round came from Troy Capital Partners, London Venture Partners, Ophir CG, Abstract VC, 500 Startups, angel Eytan Elbaz (Google Adsense), and others. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Thursday, September 7, 2017 -- Startup UCLA Summer Accelerator Demo Day. After 10 weeks of intense preparation, Startup UCLA's Summer Accelerator teams will be showcasing their startups to Los Angeles and the surrounding community. Don't miss your chance to see UCLA entrepreneurs pitch their latest innovations.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

This morning, Snap joined a host of startup accelerators shifting its demo day online amid the COVID-19 quarantine. With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator that launched in 2018, brought investors and founders together in private slack channels after a live-streamed presentation.

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JUNE 6, 2017

A new, startup accelerator, aimed at startups and small-and-medium-sized businesses looking to go global, says it is launching this summer in Los Angeles. The startup accelerator said it is hosted by the LAX Coastal Chamber of Commerce.

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JANUARY 24, 2013

Wednesday, January 30, 2013 -- StartEngine is pleased to present our latest class of startups at our Demo Day on Wednesday, January 30th at CrossCampus in Santa Monica. This event is for VCs, early stage funds, angel investors, mentors as well as a number of esteemed guests. tech entrepreneurs. See [link] (more)

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FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Startup Boost Los Angeles , the early stage startup program which is led in LA by Matt Stoddard, says it has opened up applications for its Spring 2019 program. According to Stoddard, it is looking for nine early stage startups to participate in its eight-week program. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2011

Tuesday, February 15, 2011 -- Demo Day III - The Launchpad for Cleantech. Demo Days are informal events that give entrepreneurs a chance to showcase their green technology and fundraising needs to green industry stakeholders. In addition, attendees come to learn about and discuss the latest green innovations, practices and businesses.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. Even bigger is the desire to stick one’s middle finger up at all of the people who doubted you all along. She has never given up despite setbacks. And for entrepreneurs waking up everyday to backbenchers public and private?

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MARCH 21, 2012

If you're looking get your startup off the ground in Los Angeles, it always helps to have help from folks with connections to the venture and angel community. It's not a lot more, juts a little more, but it's because the Los Angeles is more difficult to sustain a startup than in Cincinnati or other places.

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JUNE 2, 2010

This morning's interview is with Alon Goren , co-founder and President of Los Angeles-based Invested.in , an online site which allows users to run fundraisers for their projects. launched earlier this year at DEMO. What were you doing before you started the site? What is the idea behind Invested.in? Thanks, and good luck!

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Los Angeles-based Health In Reach , a new startup founded by Scott Sangster, has launched its new service today at the DEMO Fall conference. Sangster is well known in Los Angeles for his work with the Tech Coast Angels, and previously was in strategic planning and corporate development at Walt Disney Internet Group.

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AUGUST 8, 2009

You’ve pitched several angels and VC’s. Traction can simply mean showing that you’re making progress with customers, product development, channel partners, initial revenue as a proof point, attracting well-known angel investors, winning industry awards / recognition. Schedule a follow up meeting.

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APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). I was telling him that it was much easier when I started because there were fewer deals, life was less public and somehow the world seemed to be spinning more slowly. I don’t.

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APRIL 24, 2014

Accelerators are organizations that selectively accept entrepreneurs into a program of intense coaching in a physical environment sponsored by the accelerator that also provides seed funds for the startup to begin its business. Are you a candidate for an accelerator? Raising money Surrounding yourself with talent'

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AUGUST 29, 2013

If you enjoy travel, language & culture as much as I do then buy all of Bill Bryson’s books and gobble them up. We have a duty and an obligation to speak up. I love foreign-born entrepreneurs precisely because many of them don’t grow up with the sense of entitlement that comes from winning the birth lottery.

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APRIL 17, 2010

We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. Oh, and the cocktail party afterward also rocked! (I

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APRIL 17, 2018

Los Angeles-based AppOnBoard , a developer of a mobile technology platform aimed at helping app developers create app demos, has raised $15M in a Series A funding. The company bills those experiences "Full-Fidelity Demos". READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Most of these are non-profits, set up by a university to commercialize new technologies, or a municipality to foster business development for the local economy.

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