Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

According to the 2017 Kauffman Startup Activity Index , the share of new entrepreneurs who started businesses to pursue opportunity rather than from necessity reached 86 percent, more than 12 percentage points higher than in 2009 at the height of the Great Recession. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and team members) are getting rich.

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MAY 6, 2012

where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Idea Mensch.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 1, 2013

The platform allows investors to do their due diligence on their own time, network with other investors and execute deals with little overhead.” The platform carefully vets every company applicant and only presents less than 2% of opportunities to its investor base. Set to Empower Angel groups and VC’s.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing. The best angels will do very well just at the best real estate investors did well in good times and bad. And now everybody is an angel.

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MAY 9, 2019

For our interview this morning, we caught up with Alonso Vargas , the CTO and co-founder of Runtriz (www.runtriz.com), a Los Angeles company which has been powering the mobile apps and experiences for Radisson, Best Western, a lot of boutique brands. We took that platform, and converted it to a web experience.

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APRIL 17, 2013

Los Angeles-based Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. , the online business credit company headed by serial tech entrepreneur Jeff Stibel, is looking to make its technology avialable to traditional publishers looking to go online, the firm said last week. Pricing and details on the new platform were not announced.

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APRIL 24, 2019

That's where Los Angeles-based Rolebot (www.rolebot.net) comes in. Shane Bernstein: We look at actionable data points and data metrics which are quantifiable across the web, and we qualify them and normalize that data, and sort them based on what they've done. That includes hundreds of thousands of sites on the web today.

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MARCH 2, 2020

Smith , the founder of Croquet (www.croquet.io), a new Los Angeles startup which actually has its roots at the very beginning of the modern computing era. I realized, as we were building this, this multi-user collaborative platform was so powerful and neat, we should make ti available now, before the full operating system was done.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Despite the huge surge of content specifically being developed for the web--and for sites like YouTube--making that content profitable and sustainable continues to be an issue for content creators. Josef Holm: Tubestart is a crowdfunding platform for YouTube creators, web series creators, and for digital video in general.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 8, 2019

Warren also wanted regulation in place that would block companies making over $25 billion that operate as social media or search platforms or marketplaces from owning companies that also sell services on those marketplaces. One issue is do we need regulation on the full platform companies. — Balaji S. ”

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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. Here, we have the thoughts of Rob Freelen , Los Angeles Market Manager for Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

According to the latest Kaufman Startup Activity Index , entrepreneurs are making an unprecedented comeback in America, with data showing the largest year-over-year increase in two decades. Thus a record number of entrepreneurs (and employees) are getting rich. Social media is a boon for entrepreneurs and startups.

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. Simon Anderson: DreamHost offers a web hosting, and now, cloud computing platform and storage.

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Tech.Co

MAY 25, 2018

If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. With a focus on impact investing, their efforts to drive social change are based on three key pillars: revolutionizing philanthropy, unleashing entrepreneurs and igniting civic engagement. Pipeline Angels (National Network). iFundWomen (New York, NY).

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. We are creating a platform that enables users to play instant games and apps directly on the computer desktop. Fascinating that you are going against the trend of trying to make everything a web application. Tell me a bit about your background.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

It might look a little like Demo Day for Warner Media Camp , the startup incubator program being run out of Los Angeles by Turner/Warner Bros. Most of the companies included a strong element of technology, and many of the startup entrepreneurs in attendance had a strong engineering--rather than content--background.

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Xconomy

AUGUST 9, 2019

—Ezoic, a startup that developed software for web publishers that uses machine learning techniques to personalize layouts and ad placements for site visitors, raised $33 million to further develop its technology. Based in Carlsbad, in northern San Diego County, Ezoic launched its platform in 2011.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

It's not easy, which is why Los Angeles-based Divercity.io is an HR tech platform that makes it very easy for companies to source diverse talent. is an HR tech platform that makes it very easy for companies to source diverse talent. What's the best way to reach out and recruit diverse candidates for your technology company?

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. The team has experience in building startups (Doug Ludlow was formerly a founder in a TechStars company) and have all worked at local Los Angeles based startups. We’re excited to work with them.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Scott Sangster, President of Tech Coast Angels (Los Angeles)/CEO at OrganicStartup. He received a B.S.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike Jones , Investor and Advisor Located In Los Angeles. 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. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m. Price: $15 (Early Bird).

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APRIL 14, 2011

He was also the founder of Wallstrip, which he sold to CBS back in 2007, is an investor in a significant number of web and social media companies. It was built originally on the Twitter platform to talk about stocks, and all users had to do was add a dollar sign to ticker symbols to give it context. So, they let me start StockTwits.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd (www.lifecrowd.com) unveiled its service to help connect people with real life activities. The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area. Bong Koh: We started at the end of April.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Climbing the ranks for our Los Angeles, CA region, Mobile Therapy was one of two semifinal winners. Habra: Mobile Therapy spent the majority of the time leading up to the initial pitch competition perfecting our platform and ensuring that both the application and the Web dashboard is 100 percent rooted in real science.

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JULY 27, 2012

How to you better convert web visitors into customers? Retention Science is venture backed by Baroda Ventures, Mohr Davidow Ventures, Double M Partners, as well as a long list of local angel investors (Paige Craig, Bong Koh, Clark Landry, many others). He actually was named as one of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneurs of the Year.

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JUNE 1, 2011

One of the biggest forces that has emerged in the Internet in recent years has been crowdsourcing, the way the web has empowered users to drive the creation of content and information online. Clark Benson: I'm a serial entrepreneur, and have had one prior Internet exit. It's a very flexible, open platform, and is pretty open ended.

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OCTOBER 31, 2012

For ThinkNear , it looks like the whole process paid off in less than two years, after the Los Angeles company went from the TechStars accelerator just last June, to a healthy acquisition by TeleNav earlier this month for $22.5M. What advice would you give to other entrepreneurs, and which you learned from the whole experience?

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JUNE 18, 2012

Los Angeles-based HipSwap is trying to break the mold of online marketplaces, with its highly visual, mobile and online marketplace for fashion and other items. HipSwap is venture funded by Founders Fund; Greycroft Partners; Barodo Ventures; Broadbeach Ventures and other angel investors. You could be a local merchant in Los Angeles.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Alex Capecelatro: Hyphos is a social discovery platform. The main idea, being that today, social networks have become really amazing tools and a platform to interact with people you know--your family, friends, and followers. But, today's web isn't optimized for meeting new people, or meeting people with similar interests.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

In a collaborative effort, Ria Consulting, LLC and Los Angeles Net Developers Group are hosting this event on November 10th, 2012 at the Long Beach Convention Center in Long Beach, California. Hattan is responsible for developing applications on a variety of platforms including web and mobile devices. Register here.

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JUNE 2, 2017

More importantly, the tools that already exist on the web, just don't exist on mobile. My side was really the publishing business, the technology, and monetization, the technology platform itself. The hardest part is building a platform that can scale across all of these priorities, for different apps. That was Walter's job.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Hamilton Chan is founder of Los Angeles-based PaperLinks (www.paperlinks.com), a new startup which is developing mobile applications which take advantage of QR codes--the 3D barcodes which are cropping up everywhere--to help users marketers go beyond just linking those codes to web pages, but also to power social applications.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. 1) Mobile web. All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community.

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MARCH 11, 2014

Those channels still exist today, and get around 200 million views a month--we ended up becoming one of the largest movie networks for video on the web. Plus, they''ve invested in Los Angeles. They''ve been coming here for two years, meeting with people here in Los Angeles, and we thought that we pretty cool.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. We got lots of traction on the web, and the story was picked up in many places. It ran in April of 2008.

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MAY 30, 2012

That's the idea behind a new startup, Fundable , headed by serial entrepreneur Wil Schroter , which allows you to use rewards -- product, company schwag, an even equity -- as a tool to get your startup to the next stage. Wil Schroter: We're a crowd-funding platform for startups. One way is getting funding from your potential customers.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2013

There is a plethora of tech innovation going on in Los Angeles right now, and not only in Silicon Beach — but all over from downtown to the valleys to everywhere in between. New entrepreneurs are setting up shop and the city is encouraging tech development with exciting initiatives. that has quietly soft launched this January.

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