socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2014

The Disney Accelerator said that Smart Toy was acquired by Los Angeles-based children''s product firm Cartwheel Kids, and that SnowShoe raised $2.2M The Disney Accelerator said that Smart Toy was acquired by Los Angeles-based children''s product firm Cartwheel Kids, and that SnowShoe raised $2.2M in its seed funding round. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

From Los Angeles to Silicon Valley , a trend emerged among social media influencers and startup founders alike: move into a mansion with 10 or so collaborators, work day and night together to build fame and wealth, and hope that your new roommates do their dishes. A post shared by Collab Studios (@collabstudiosatl).

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

Mogul Millennial : a media startup sharing professional resources for Black entrepreneurs. Earlier Yellow bets skewed more toward content investments as Snapchat was scaling Discover. making their way to Los Angeles. Charli Cohen : a “next-gen” streetwear fashion brand. Nuggetverse : a web comics media startup.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Los Angeles-based KidGuard.com , a startup backed by Lawrence Ng's OnRamp Fund, said this week that it has launched a new product which can help parents monitor their children's texting and cell phone usage. According to the startup, it's able to track communication in Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Skype, Viber, Kik, WeChat and Line.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Los Angeles-based Joymode , the new startup led by Joe Fernandez which is hoping to people to invest in experiences, not stuff , is hoping to show off its new service with a pop-up shop in Sunset Junction next week. Fernandez is a serial entrepreneur, who previously founded Klout.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Chance Barnett , Crowdfunder (Los Angeles, crowdfunding). Allison Beal , StyleSaint (Los Angeles, fashion). James Borow and Clark Landry (shared position), SHIFT (Los Angeles, Santa Monica, advertising). Josh Brooks , OnTheRunTech.com dba Post Cards On The Run (Los Angeles, mobile apps).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2014

Maynard Webb) and the Mayor of Los Angeles, Eric Garcetti. We have a large number of highly talented engineers and entrepreneurs now developing companies in our local market. The point is … people have perceptions of Los Angeles formed by the history of this town and the fact that we are the capital of content and sun.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2016

This continues to solidify Los Angeles’ place as a major player in the global tech ecosystem and while any one success doesn’t define a city — the number of high-profile startups and exits has definitely increased. But mostly I’m just happy for Michael, his team, for Science and for the continued success of the Los Angeles startup community.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 21, 2014

Los Angeles is the only place in the US with a collegiate hackathon, an event where programmers spend hours together programming and building, of that scale and the LA Hacks team from UCLA made sure it was awesome. It is now up to Los Angeles to continue to encourage technology and innovation. LA Hacks has set the bar.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Mike Bonin , Council Member, City of Los Angeles. Phillipe Browning , SnapChat. The socalTECH 50 is aimed at identifying and highlighting the top 50 people in the technology industry here, who are most likely to create the next big thing, produce the next big exit, or influence the industry in a significant way. Chad Billmeyer , Panjo.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

” Los Angeles-based Brud is by far the most established of this new breed in the U.S. (at Those kinds of numbers are music to the ears, of Dylan Flinn, a former agent at the Los Angeles powerhouse Creative Artists Agency, who left to start his own company. at least in terms of the amount of money it has raised).

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socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2014

We recently spoke with Mauhan about his startup, which is setting up offices in Los Angeles, but is based in New York. For example, if you are watching the World Cup streaming from ESPN or your favorite WB show, you can grab your favorite moments and share them across any medium, whether that''s a chat platform, Snapchat, or anywhere.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

Earlier this week, Derek Norton , a long time advisor to the media, Internet, and technology industry in Los Angeles, announced a brand new venture capital fund called Watertower Ventures (www.watertowerventures.com). Derek Norton: We're investing in Los Angeles, the Bay Area, and New York. Tell us about the new fund?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2016

Whether you are talking to peers, competitors or investors, you as an active entrepreneur will be judged on your familiarity with today’s startup and funding jargon. In that context, I offer you my latest collection of popular investor-to-entrepreneur terms and concepts. Prime examples include Uber, Airbnb and Snapchat.

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socalTECH

MARCH 2, 2016

Los Angeles-based Render Media (www.rndr.com), which is creating a publisher geared at the social world, social channels, and sharing. The reason why, was one of our angel investors was a big news and political junky, and he was also the biggest angel in Opposing Views. What's the right strategy for reaching your audience?

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2020

Our interview today is with Scott Grimes , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Stackin' , which operates a text-based, financial messaging platform. There are lots of others trying to put content on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Tiktok, which is more about entertainment around social media. Stackin recentlyraised $12.6M

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2014

Lower costs to start a business (95% reduction), many more companies created & funded by angels / seed. But it still takes VC to scale a business (thus large capital into industry winners like Uber, Airbnb, SnapChat, etc). The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 15, 2017

But some of you will surely say “What about Facebook and Snapchat, who focused on growth first and are clearly successful?” What most people don’t realize is that the total outside funding to get it there is estimated at over $800 million, which is a bit more than you will get from any Angel investor. So let’s take a look.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 9, 2016

Peter Csathy: I'm an entrepreneur, a builder of companies. Manatt is a significant brand in the digital media space, particularly in Los Angeles, and it's a great place, and we'll continue to collaborate on opportunities. Snapchat started as a communications company, but it too is transforming itself into a media company.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Wednesday November 20 th , 2013 was a special day for the technology entrepreneurs at the University of Southern California. The USC Entrepreneur Club and the Kairos Society brought Howard Marks , a successful entrepreneur and founder and CEO of StartEngine , on campus to speak about his past experiences. The Time Is Now. “We

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm for our sector. For entrepreneurs there’s too much money sloshing around. And it’s true that I still take a whole lot of first meetings with entrepreneurs.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2018

We started offering this in Los Angeles, and have since expanded to Orange County and San Diego. We've also developed technology to target them, once we've found them, across Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, or Waze, whatever they are using most frequently. Where is the company now in terms of the service?

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2014

Plus, they''ve invested in Los Angeles. They came to LA, and they''ve invested in companies like Honest Company and Snapchat, and a few others, hosted dinners for Los Angeles entrepreneurs, and they''ve made a serious investment in the community. That goes a long way.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 9, 2013

The topic of the conference was “The Sharing Economy” and as I read many of the session title descriptions I realized that people would be talking more about “collaborative consumption” (think airbnb, taskrabbit, uber) than about why people are sharing more on Instragram & Snapchat. Network Up. But what else?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

” Case in point: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, SnapChat. Nobody is offering to put you on their scout program and pay you to be an angel investor. I with every entrepreneur would forward that article to their favorite journalist so we could stop having this conversation of “yeah, but company so-and-so isn’t profitable!”

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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. Unless you’re SnapChat, Instagram or similar this is probably 3-5 years into your existence. In the Growth Years.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Snapchat Stories are an easy way to send your friend a birthday wish. Big brands are also heading for Doppels. The company announced they have secured an exciting national partnership with Amazon to drive sales and disrupt their digital gifting experience. Express Yourself.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

I had an enjoyable conversation this morning with a young team straight out of college this morning and they were calling to ask advice on how to approach fund raising (angels vs. VCs, how to select a VC, etc.) Most entrepreneurs I encounter seem to make their decisions more on perceived brand, past successes and ability to intro.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 17, 2017

Or you know the other one — the one where Snapchat lost $2 billion in just one quarter. I often ask entrepreneurs to consider, “What’s your objective? They both raised angel / seed money of $1.5 Two-f **g-billion! What a disaster! Except that they didn’t actually lose $2 billion in cash.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

ML: Being an entrepreneur, especially with very little resources is like a rollercoaster. ML: I do mentor and advise a lot of young entrepreneurs, especially from USC since I went to that school. More important piece of advice, especially in Los Angeles because capital markets here is tighter than the ones in the bay area.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

I then got my MBA at University of Chicago so I secretly pull for local entrepreneurs as long as they don’t make me visit in the Winter any more. And consider Snapchat – one of our hometown favorites as they’re based in LA (Venice Beach). Locally we call it “the Snapchat effect.”

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Los Angeles-based Flipagram (www.flipagram.com) has created a potent and wildly viral mobile app, which combines photos, music, and video to create addictive, engaging mini slideshows of your life. Snapchat is a disappearing moment, Instagram is a moment in time, Twitter is a moment with a status or link. So, I took at look at it.

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2015

Los Angeles-based Flipagram (www.flipagram.com) has created a potent and wildly viral mobile app, which combines photos, music, and video to create addictive, engaging mini slideshows of your life. Snapchat is a disappearing moment, Instagram is a moment in time, Twitter is a moment with a status or link. So, I took at look at it.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

He was running to be the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles and he outlined his vision to “open up the city government to technology and innovation” if he were elected. Having more great investors is critical to more entrepreneurs staying in LA, which is critical to my long-term success!” Are you kidding me? And this is true.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 23, 2015

Crosscut Ventures has just announced their 3rd fund and clocking in at $75 million , which will be focused heavily on Los Angeles – FTW. Like many entrepreneurs, the founders of Crosscut quit their well-paid jobs in the belief that LA’s moment was about to arrive and they spent years on low (sometimes no) salaries to prove it.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

I’d like to explain as best I can my opinion on what is going on because most of what I hear from entrepreneurs is not only wrong but is reminiscent of what I heard in 1997-2000. ” “This will be great for VCs and bad for entrepreneurs.” What is the True Sentiment of VCs? ” “Sure, prices are dropping.

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