SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Saturday, February 25, 2017 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Entertainment. See https://www.eventbrite.com/e/technology-startups-go-to-the-movies-tickets-31210790314?aff=es2.

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CalTech Entertainment Entrepreneur Southern California 100

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NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Saturday, November 16, 2019 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Transportation. Join John Roussant and a panel of nationally recognized visionaries, vehicle manufacturers, startups and investors in the advanced mobility space who will explain the massive changes and focus on opportunities for innovation.

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CalTech Entrepreneur Demand Mobile 100

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MAY 7, 2017

Saturday, May 13, 2017 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Robots, Computer Vision and Deep AI. Against that substrate then, how does an entrepreneur transform a concept for a new robotic application into a viable start up that gains traction? See [link] (more)

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CalTech Entrepreneur .Net Startup 100

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

David Carter and Allen Hurff are two startup veterans, who believe they have a new formula to help create early stage, technology companies, through their new "startup studio", Zuma Ventures (www.zumavc.com). We sat down with David and Allen to learn more about how the company wants to change how startups are created.

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Startup Technology Incubator Silver Lake 231

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OCTOBER 28, 2018

Saturday, November 3, 2018 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Venturing to Mars. Join us to hear expert speakers from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, industry insiders and entrepreneurial startups. Mars entrepreneurship has entered its lift off phase. Elon Musk declared that SpaceX will put one million people on Mars.

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CalTech Entrepreneur SpaceX Startup 100

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MARCH 17, 2010

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more.

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MAY 24, 2011

What is an entrepreneur? What does this have to do with being an entrepreneur? I wasn't aware of this magic ratio while I was selling Kirby vacuum cleaners door-to-door, but by seeing every non-sale as a stepping stone to a sale, I was well on my way to becoming an entrepreneur. I thought it might be a good experience.

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Entrepreneur CalTech Statistics Sales 157

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JULY 16, 2013

One of those high profile neighborhoods here is Pasadena, home of Idealab, Caltech, OpenX, and many other high tech companies and institutions. We caught up with Andy Wilson , who is behind the effort, to hear about why he thinks Pasadena needs its own technology identity. I got a resounding yes.

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Pasadena Santa Monica CalTech Technical Review 242

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JUNE 6, 2010

Saturday, June 12, 2010 -- Entrepreneurial Opportunities in Software: Start-ups in the Cloud  Challenges and Opportunities. Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Please join the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum for their annual software program this year focusing on Cloud Computing.

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Startup Enterprise Forum Cloud Computing CalTech 100

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MARCH 11, 2011

At the time when you did a search on Lycos, Alta Vista or similar for a category such as Cars you ended up getting 9 spam results and 1 proper website to meet your needs. He came up to Bill after the event and said, “clever idea, we should do that with you.&# Too many entrepreneurs focus on dilution. Commission Junction.

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

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OCTOBER 5, 2010

The reason is that conferences usually pack them up with speakers to maximize the number of high profile guests in attendance to sell more general admission tickets. Startup Matchmaking (Wed 5th Oct – Santa Monica) - The first event is tonight (Tues, Oct 5, 2010) at Wokcano in Santa Monica.

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CalTech Startup Santa Monica Venture Capital 222

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Saturday, November 12, 2016 -- Entrepreneurs in a Biotech Moment. Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum. Gordon Binder, Venture Capital investor, former Chairman and CEO of Amgen, and Trustee Emeritus of both Caltech and MIT, leads the November Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum program, "Entrepreneurs in a Biotech Age."

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Entrepreneur CalTech Southern California Startup 100

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

Three local universities, plus a Pasadena-based startup, have received a $360,000 grant to promote student entrepreneurship in clean technology. Department of Energy to help foster student entrepreneurs via a business plan competition run by the group called First Look West. OnGreen said it is the commercial partner for the effort.

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CalTech UCLA Southern California Pasadena 165

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APRIL 20, 2011

What people don't know is how First Round got started and often people know less about the amazing background of one of its co-founders, Howard Morgan (everyone tends to know Josh Kopelman as one of the highest profile players in our industry overall). Josh and Howard began co-investing as angels and in 2005 they started a $10 million fund.

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Capital Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 284

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Founded by Steve Poizner last year to accelerate the growth of a startup entrepreneurial ecosystem in Southern California, The Alliance is building a network of investors, entrepreneurs and universities to provide ballast in the south to the dominance of the Northern California tech industry.

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Southern California Dollar Shave Club SoCal Develop 224

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JUNE 5, 2011

Saturday, June 11, 2011 -- Crowdsourcing for the Entrepreneur: Unlocking the Power of Online Communities. Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Join us for a program which explores such questions, and the use of crowdsourcing to match specific needs to an available community. See [link] (more)

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Entrepreneur Enterprise Forum Netflix CalTech 113

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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

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Despite the excitement and lure of startups to those in the tech industry, not everyone wants to join a startup after college--according to Mike Gammarino , who is helping to organize a new effort here to recruit students to startups. Mike Gammarino: I'm an entrepreneur who has been working in technology since I graduated.

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Startup Technical Review Outsource Yahoo 206

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JUNE 26, 2013

A new, startup incubator-created by the Art Center College of Design and the California Insitute of Technology --said this morning that it has launched a brand new, design-focused incubator, housed at Idealab. design accelerator pasadena startup incubator entrepreneur' READ MORE>>.

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Incubator Idealab Design CalTech 178

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. What’s keeping you up at night?

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, February 2, at Caltech. All it takes is an email address to start receiving our exclusive deals for sports tickets to your favorite teams in your city. This way we keep the questions fresh and up to date with current events. Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups.

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CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

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APRIL 13, 2021

For today's interview, we spoke to Dave Eastman, the Director of the Viterbi Startup Garage, a startup incubator that is run by the University of Southern California, out of its location in Marina Del Rey. What is Viterbi Startup Garage? The Startup Garage is located physically in Marina Del Rey, in the twin tower on Admiralty.

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Marina Del Rey Startup USC Incubator 150

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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.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, July 14, at The California Institute of Technology (CalTech). LawPivot is a legal Q&A website enabling companies, especially startups, to confidentially receive crowdsourced legal answers from highly qualified lawyers for a fraction of the cost. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m. RSVP: AGENDA.

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Southern California has had its share of new startup accelerators launch in the last few months, however, few people here have actually experienced an accelerator firsthand. Alex Benzer: I'm actually building two startups. SocialEngine is four years old, and that's the startup we applied to TechStars with.

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Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

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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. A lot of the time, all the startup and inventor can get their head around is the technology, much less trying to deal with business issues.

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Networking Research Startup USC 215

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FEBRUARY 7, 2011

One of the great joys of doing the web series This Week in VC every week is that I get to spend time with great people debating the issues of our day including how our industry is evolving as well as insights into how companies got started, got their initial traction and dealt with adversities. We then spoke about startups.

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Startup Venture Capital Web Ideas 286

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

It's already a great technology center for lots of different areas, but when compared with Silicon Valley, the activity level needs to go way up in order for Southern California to be on par with Silicon Valley. I spent my professional career starting and running tech companies in Silicon Valley, and have been really successful at it.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 170

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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. We've got a number of companies which have now received subsequent financing and up-rounds, so we're now firing on all cylinders.

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Startup Southern California Ideas Research 185

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2011

Based on my own experience and feedback from friends, every investor is approached by at least ten entrepreneurs with a “hot idea” for a new business, for every one who has a real “plan” for a new business. In fact, you can find websites full of ideas, like these “ Free Innovative Ideas ,” by serial entrepreneur Kim E.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Summary Startup 104

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MAY 2, 2013

Despite a growing technology industry here in Southern California, local investors and entrepreneurs tell us there''s still a shortage of local, venture capital. There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. What''s the best way for entrepreneurs to approach you? How did the new fund come about? David Waxman.:

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Invest Technology Startup Venture Capital 159

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2013

Based on my own experience and feedback from friends, every investor is approached by at least ten entrepreneurs with a “hot idea” for a new business, for every one who has a real “plan” for a new business. In fact, you can find websites full of ideas, like these “ Free Innovative Ideas ,” by serial entrepreneur Kim E.

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Ideas Startup Summary CalTech 106

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JUNE 5, 2011

Saturday, June 11, 2011 -- Crowdsourcing for the Entrepreneur: Unlocking the Power of Online Communities. Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. However, leveraging crowdsourcing also requires an entrepreneur to navigate a complex landscape of questions.

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Entrepreneur Enterprise Forum Netflix CalTech 100

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MAY 1, 2011

Saturday, May 7, 2011 -- Renewable Energy and the Smarter Grid: Opportunities for the Entrepreneur. Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. We will examine opportunities and strategies being pursued by early stage start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, and discuss remaining gaps and challenges to achieve the full vision of the smarter grid.

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Enterprise Forum Entrepreneur CalTech Startup 100

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Southern California has seen a surge in accelerators and incubators looking to spawn new startups in the region. Among those startups is Sandalbay Life , a new healthcare IT firm which is resident at Los Angeles-based StartEngine, the accelerator being run by Howard Marks. What's your background?

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Startup Platform Southern California CalTech 164

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FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Saturday, February 25, 2017 -- Technology Startups go to the Movies: Opportunities and Hurdles for Selling New Technologies into the Motion Picture Industry! Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum.

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Technology Southern California Startup Netflix 100

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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 ). It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee.

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Social Network Networking Web 2.0 Startup 318