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MAY 8, 2015

In a world awash with on-demand startups, Los Angeles-based Serviz (www.serviz.com) stands out--not because of the market segment it is tackling, but because it was founded by two, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Zorik Gordon and Michael Kline. Zorik Gordon: We incubated this at ReachLocal, and spun it out in February of last year.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Wednesday, February 28, 2007 Google Maps Mobile I recently downloaded Google Maps Mobile for my Treo. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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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.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Even the homework is easier, with free access to more opportunity details and competitor data on your mobile device from anywhere in the world. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

These are industries where structural impediments to technology adoption have only recently been broken down by the advent of incredibly powerful mobile devices. ” Much of this will look and feel like a Green New Deal, but sold under a package of infrastructure modernization and service upgrades that the country desperately needs. .

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Friday, February 23, 2007 Events and Networking in Los Angeles One of the issues I discussed in Innovation and Geography was that the geography and traffic in Los Angeles generally makes it more difficult for networking. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Even the homework is easier, with free access to more opportunity details and competitor data on your mobile device from anywhere in the world. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Newly launched Crash is hoping to help solve that problem, by surfacing "photo-worthy" locations around you in its mobile app--sourced from its users. That one small part of the service was easily the most popular part of the service. Everyone commented on the wierd attractions people were taking pictures of. That stuck with me.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

The group occupies some familiar spaces for past investments, with a focus on niche social communities, mobile media tools and augmented reality. making their way to Los Angeles. Snap investment Hardworkers. Earlier Yellow bets skewed more toward content investments as Snapchat was scaling Discover. ”

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike Jones , Investor and Advisor Located In Los Angeles. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. Alex serves on the Board of Directors for Logsdon School, a non-profit school providing educational services to students with special needs.

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JUNE 17, 2011

He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. Prior to Idealab, Alex led sales and marketing efforts for venture-backed startups focused on enterprise software and services. He received a B.S. Alex Maleki , Member of New Venture Group at Idealab.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

One of the local firms that launched was Los Angeles-based Health In Reach (www.healthinreach.com). HealthInReach was founded by Scott Sangster , who some will know best as the President of the Los Angeles chapter of the Tech Coast Angels. What sort of patients are the target market for the service?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

What new technology area, startup, service, or app did you find most interesting or useful this year, and why? Personal mobility and transportation innovation are absolutely massive issues for citiesespecially Los Angelesand we watch the categories closely. mobility and transportation, space tech, and esports.

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JUNE 6, 2011

Although Los Angeles has become a hub for the high tech startup world, Surprisingly, one of the things which hasn't happened in the Los Angeles area is any huge, successful venture acceleration programs. So I've been in this environment either as a manager, service provider, consultant, mentor, and founder.

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AUGUST 20, 2012

It turns you, you can actually do that, with Burner , a new iPhone app developed by Los Angeles startup Ad Hoc Labs. Although it's not quite a commodity, it's certainly available as a service, similar to the cloud services and computing world. I was also very involved in the strategy on Yahoo's Brickhouse incubation effort.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong – mobile payments has been a very hot area over the past couple of years with the success and growth of both Boku and Zong. Boku and Zong focus mostly on mobile payments for virtual goods. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. VC Financings: 1.

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OCTOBER 8, 2015

The Disney Accelerator , held its Demo Day for its second class on Thursday, showing off ten companies to a theater packed full of venture and angel investors. A number of the companies--showing off one huge advantage of being involved in a program run by Disney--announced deals with Disney properties to use their technology and products.

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socalTECH

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. The standard model for an accelerator is, they provide a tranche of equity, along with a suite of services that varies by different accelerator.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha Bell, Deal Flow Lead for Pipeline Angels. Lisha is a member of Pipeline Angels , a social impact angel investing group focused on women and non-binary femmes, and serves as the Deal Flow lead. She’s also an advisor and connector to portfolio companies, and consults other angel groups to develop business plans.

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AUGUST 11, 2011

Late last year, there were more high-quality, seed-stage startups in New York than there was an Angel community to support them.”. We are not taking the incubator approach…we would invest on the same terms alongside the other investors and we would make sure to be a very, very small piece of the round and not to crowd out anybody.”.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

Last week, a group of four angel investors here announced their plans to create a new, accelerator program to spur the creation of an entrepreneurial community in the area around new startups. Are there specific kinds of companies you're hoping to see in the incubator? That's a business model and concept we need to change.

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OCTOBER 28, 2011

Mingle is a networking service that uses location to discover and create relevant connections. In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Howard is now CEO of Gamzee, a new social game company building games for the new Facebook mobile platform.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 About this Blog Ive been thinking about doing a blog with my thoughts on technology and whats happening in the Los Angeles area technology scene for a while, but it was Ben Kuos recent start of a blog that inspired me to actually go ahead and do it. Thanks Ben.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2013

Stained Glass Labs (SGL), the first Glass and wearable technologies accelerator has launched the world’s first comprehensive app directory and a self-service app publishing portal for Google Glass pre-launched applications. Entrepreneurs will also be able to communicate with the Bloggerati and showcase their products to the world.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 8:30 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2012

A few days ago, Wallaby ([link] the latest startup out of Los Angeles technology incubator MuckerLab unveiled itself, to solve just that problem. Mobile payments are very cool, but they have lots of requirements. Is there any additional transaction cost for your service? Finally, who's the ideal user for the service?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

GRP Partners is looking to hire two analysts (maybe even three) to join our practice in Los Angeles. What is the future of social media, digital television or mobile computing. We also have a very strong financial services practice so we welcome people with this interest area, too. Where do you think things are heading?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Ive personally been involved in the start-up world in Los Angeles for about 15 years, and have had the opportunity to work on many early-stage companies (e.g., Probably the biggest drawback of Los Angeles is the distance and traffic that makes networking more difficult. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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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. They immediately have access to beta testers, investors, mentors, incubators and accelerators that can keep on eye out for them on a peer sharing platform.”.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Even the homework is easier, with free access to more opportunity details and competitor data on your mobile device from anywhere in the world. Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a new book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Mingle is a networking service that uses location to discover and create relevant connections. In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Howard is now CEO of Gamzee, a new social game company building games for the new Facebook mobile platform.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

In the case of San Diego's Classy (www.classy.org), you get an extremely popular piece of software-as-a-service to help you manage a nonprofit and its fundraising efforts. Classy basically upgrades a nonprofit's website overnight, so that everything is mobile responsive, and it looks nice, and is visually appealing.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 9:15 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 8:14 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 7:27 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

. —Intel (NASDAQ: INTC ) paid over $400 million in August to acquire Nervana Systems , the two-year-old San Diego startup offering its machine learning technology as a cloud-based service. Webroot withheld terms of the deal.). million in a Series D round of investment capital, according to founder and chairman Tony Farwell.

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