InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

To better understand how the accelerator world has matured beyond Demo Da, I sought out Jason Denenberg, former partner at Angel Capital Group, and current Director of Entrepreneurship at Launch Tennessee (LaunchTN). Convert Graduate-Founders Into Mentors. According to Jason, “Every experience is also a learning experience.

Startup 100

Startup Class LAMP Santa Barbara 100

socalTECH

JULY 13, 2009

GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. We've heard quite a bit about your mentoring efforts here, can you talk about that? The objective is to provide more mentoring for startups, and actually getting in and helping them.

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GRP Partners Southern California Santa Barbara Rustic Canyon 157

socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

We shuttle primarily between Palo Alto and Los Angeles. Those mentors and others have given us really tangible advice. The four partners at Muckerlab, Greg Bettinelli, Yanda Erlich, Will Hsu, and Erik Rannala just have incredible backgrounds, and an incredible ability to mentor companies. What's the idea behind SurfAir?

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Startup Mentor Technical Review Santa Barbara 240

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

We are able to do events like this launch party to give them more exposure, and there's also a mentoring components, and access to capital through DFJ Frontier and other venture capitalists and angels. There are lots of them solving similar problems, hiring similar talent, and there's some value in having them colocated under one roof.

Ventura 200

Ventura Incubator Technology Startup 200

InfoChachkie

JULY 21, 2016

A number of my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students initially model their investment pitches on the show's contrived format. While the show makes for great drama, it has absolutely nothing to do with reality, nothing to do with angel investing, and very little to do with entrepreneurship.

Entrepreneur 100

Entrepreneur Entertainment Technical Review Ideas 100

socalTECH

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. Where is this talent coming from?

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Networking Research Startup USC 215

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. Chris Dumler , Co-Founder of Los Angeles Startup Foundation. Chris Dumler is an advocate of the Los Angeles startup community and the culture that holds it together.

Idealab 84

Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84