Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, July 14, at The California Institute of Technology (CalTech). Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. The Caltech Entrepreneurship Club is the hub for innovators in the Caltech community who want to learn how to make their idea a reality. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m.

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

The new group says it will develop initiatives that encourage tech entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and top talent to locate to and stay in Southern California, complementing and extending the success of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area. Bill Maris recently opened up Section 32 as a new, $150M investment fund in San Diego.

Southern California 100

Southern California San Diego Riverside Santa Barbara 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 1, 2011

Saturday, May 7, 2011 -- Renewable Energy and the Smarter Grid: Opportunities for the Entrepreneur. Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. As aggressive policies and vigorous investments take hold, newer and smarter technology is rolling out.

Enterprise Forum 100

Enterprise Forum Entrepreneur CalTech Startup 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 8, 2012

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. This forum will address questions such as where the markets are developing, how entrepreneurs and corporate investors play a role in this space, what impact the recession has had on deal size and investors appetite for risk, and how investment activity varies according to technology type and fuel produced.

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Enterprise Forum CalTech Activity Technology 100

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2014

In a world with a rash of startup incubators and accelerators, super angels, crowdfunding sites, and more, what''s the relevance of organized angel investments groups? Terry Kay: We have always been about helping the entrepreneurs succeed, first, and then, we figure out how we get our fair share from that success.

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Pasadena Angels Pasadena Angel Startup 162

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. You could argue that choosing the name “first round” paints them into a corner in case they want to ever do a late stage fund, but I suspect they named it FRC precisely because they wanted to excel at early-stage investing. I know that I call them often to co-invest.

Startup 304

Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Santa Monica 304

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

They have totally changed the way you run a VC firm, investing heavily in systems & events for their founders that are pushing the boundaries of the way our industry works. He then went on to teach Computer Science at Cornell, Caltech, and University of Pennsylvania. Investing Strategy. and Half.com.

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Capital Venture Capital Startup Technical Review 284

Steve Reich

JUNE 23, 2013

The Pasadena Angels will be there, in addition to representatives of CalTech, the City of Pasadena, IdeaLab, and more. Angel Investing Entrepreneurs Innovate Pasadena' You can get tickets while they last by joining the Innovate Pasadena group on LinkedIn. Don’t miss it!

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Pasadena Pasadena Angels CalTech Idealab 45

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Saturday, December 6, 2008 -- "Building a Virtually Integrated Life Sciences Company" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Even more important, who invests in these virtual companies and what criteria are they using? What is the essential core of a life sciences business? What parts of the business can be delegated to others?

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Enterprise Forum Company Companies CalTech 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Getting research out of the university lab and into a growing business poses a unique set of challenges - especially when the scientist is assumed to be the entrepreneur. Not only are the founders deeply invested in the research, but their chosen profession is academia rather than the business world. See [link] (more).

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Pepperdine LAVA Mission Ventures CalTech 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Saturday, February 12, 2011 -- Synthetic Biology Today and Tomorrow: The Way Entrepreneurs and Visionaries Want the World to Be. Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. That will take large, risky investments, and long periods of time, and it will raise a variety of issues of ethics and how to regulate the new technology appropriately.

Enterprise Forum 100

Enterprise Forum CalTech Research Entrepreneur 100

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

There are 9 innovation nodes in the US associated with I-Corp, and one of those nodes is out of the Viterbi School of Engineering, with UCLA and Caltech partners in that. We also will help others make investment in teams at the startup garage, because we understand the progress of those teams and where they are.

Marina Del Rey 150

Marina Del Rey Startup USC Incubator 150

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Sandalbay Life is actually run by a serial entrepreneur with ties to Marks, Neil Malhotra. Neil Malhotra: I'm a Caltech engineering graduate, and started with the Internet with eCompanies with Sky Dayton, leading technology for Icebox. Malhotra co-founded Acclaim Games with Howard Marks, and has worked at eCompanies and eMind.

Startup 164

Startup Platform Southern California CalTech 164

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

Anyone who works in the venture business or frankly just lives in Silicon Valley will be used to hearing a buzz word rise up out of nowhere to capture the technology zeitgeist and find its way into every entrepreneur’s product development plan or every aspiring entrepreneur’s pitch deck.

Startup 296

Startup Evite Web Ideas 296

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

To hear about the firm's interest in Los Angeles, and Southern California investments in general, we spoke with Fouad ElNaggar , Principal at the firm, to hear about where the firm is nowadays and what kind of investments it is making locally. It's difficult to add value to a portfolio company or entrepreneur.

Redpoint 154

Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

In light of the recent success, we sat down with Marc Averitt and Sharon Stevenson to talk about the recent exit, where they are with their fund nowadays, and what advice they have for entrepreneurs. It was about three years from investment to exit, which we were really thrilled about. Nice chatting with you today! Is there a market?

Startup 185

Startup Southern California Ideas Research 185

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

What they do, is accelerate that team or company to get them to the next level, and then go through and put in some investment money, help them build out the management team, and help with vendor relationships, help with overall strategy, and then help those companies riase their next round of capital. We actually are ideating internally.

Startup 231

Startup Technology Incubator Silver Lake 231

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

The wide range of startups is great and creates more opportunities for new talent and entrepreneurs to join the Los Angeles area. A centralized startup community provides a stronger and talented group of individuals, entrepreneurs, and investors to communicate and build a healthier startup community. With Yahoo!

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Report Orange County Startup West Los Angeles 104

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

The conference is run by Jamie Montgomery , one of the local industry's pioneers in venture capital and investment. The universities are now more focused on the innovation economy, with schools like USC, UCLA, Caltech, the Claremont Colleges all bringing good people to LA. On Tuesday, we have a program regarding female entrepreneurs.

Technical Review 100

Technical Review Conference Silver Lake Cornerstone OnDemand 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Always looking to provide the very best for our community so that you may learn and grow as a startup or entrepreneur, Bill Gross is one of the best experts we could provide. A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Nikhil told us a bit about the startup,which was spawned out of Idealab, and recently raised a round of funding from CrestValue Capital, Cybernaut Westlake Partners, Leaguer Venture Investment Co., Third Wave Digital (Allen DeBevoise), Dream Maker Entertainment Ltd. Entertainment Co., Gordon Cheng (Cameron Pace Group China), and Idealab.

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Idealab Artificial Inteligence Startup Ideas 173

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. LA investors are more pragmatic. Come join us.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Some entrepreneurs might be surprised you didn't want to sit on a beach in Bali for the rest of your life�talk more about that? I got super, super fortunate that early in my career, I was living with an entrepreneur, Randy Saaf, who was running a company called MediaDefender. He sold it to ArtistDirect for $42.5M

Startup 113

Startup Southern California UCLA Technical Review 113

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

Tom Soto – Managing Director/Investment Committee Member, TCW/Craton. Tom comments on the state of affairs as someone in the trenches, investing real dollars. He sees that with Cleantech and sustainability, they’re really in the 3rd or 4th generation in an investment sense. Let’s Talk Money.

UCLA 99

UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The other reason for building it, is LA is crapped on all the time from a press perspective and entrepreneur perspective. There's no formal business training to be an entrepreneur, and some of what you learn is from the ambient environment, being near people and watching people solve problems they're facing. Thanks for the time!

Startup 242

Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

Semiconductor advances are infamous for costing millions of dollars and requiring very significant investment in infrastructure. How did a startup like yours go from that research to a product without millions and millions invested in semiconductor infrastructure? So those resources have been fantastic.

Startup 100

Startup Southern California UCLA Incubator 100

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2013

That kind of vote isn’t exactly encouraging to companies and entrepreneurs with new and potentially disruptive business models looking to plant roots here. Another idea was to tap into the talent pool at CalTech, UCLA and USC early using accessible internship programs through a public-private partnership with the City.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Southern California 98

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

In most cases if you can’t get a prototype done you’re probably not an entrepreneur. Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. They know that the money they invest may be lost. That’s OK.

Angel 291

Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. He knew he was an entrepreneur because he couldn’t stop thinking about ideas. Seth also spoke about not accepting investment until after gaining traction. We then captured this conversation again on camera. We then spoke about startups.

Startup 286

Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

Here are just a few: Nolan Bushnell , a seasoned entrepreneur who founded both Atari, Inc. Neuroscientist at Caltech, UCLA’s Department of Neurosurgery, and NYUMoran is interested in attention, emotions regulations, and dreams. for ourselves, our culture, and our planet. and the Chuck E Cheese’s Pizza-Time Theater chain. 12pm: BODY.

Technical Advisors 89

Technical Advisors Design Education Study 89

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. Just this year, Q2 investments in SoCal and New England were virtually the same, with $838 million and $843 million invested respectively, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers MoneyTree Report. Cloud storage. Enterprise. Acquisition. Venture capital. Developers. Infographics. Management.

Southern California 57

Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. Too many entrepreneurs focus on dilution. He sold so many that after Caltech he decided to open a retail store.

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Competition Idealab Product Ideas 350

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). What I want to answer with this post (long though it may be) is: Why did Web 2.0 This was Politburo-style innovation and was laughable.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318