Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

As a potential investor, I always think of the high rate of failure of disruptive technologies, due to the longer learning curve of customers, infrastructure change consistently required, and higher marketing costs. Technology is great, but high-tech major-step-forward solutions are not the answer to all our change challenges.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. Growing our practice from 3 original partners who would meet at coffee shops into a full institutional investing platform is a constant evolution.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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socalTECH

JUNE 8, 2017

Los Angeles-based StartEngine , the equity crowdfunding service run by serial entrepeneur Howard Marks, has chalked up 25 companies raising money on its platform since the start of 2017, according to the company.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Tecca (www.tecca.com) launched a consumer electronics, consumer information service, backed by Fuse Capital and Best Buy. We caught up with Mickie Rosen , the firm's CEO, about the company, its links to Best Buy, and how it was incubated out of Fuse Capital.

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socalTECH

APRIL 6, 2015

The startup--led by technology startup vet Derrick Oien--said the funding was led by Sinclair Digital Ventures, a division of Sinclair Broadcast Group. ScoreStream''s platform uses the crowd to offer up real-time local sports scores, photos and social conversations for television, newspaper, radio, and Internet publishers. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. Before you bring on partners, develop intellectual property, raise capital, or generate revenues, you need to establish an official business entity.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Earlier this year, Embodied announced a $22 million round for its personal robotics platform focused on healthcare and wellness, while InVia Robotics collected $20 million for its own take on the robotics industry. Barnehama was tight-lipped about the specifics of the technology that Elementary is using for its robotic stack.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

Crowdfunding is just the latest alternative for assistance to entrepreneurs who need help, supplementing the existing alternatives of loans, grants, angel investors, venture capital and many others. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors.

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socalTECH

JUNE 24, 2010

Gil Elbaz , one of the founders of Applied Semantics , the often unheralded Santa Monica-based creator of what is now Google's AdSense product, is one of the angel investors in San Francisco-based Triggit , a developer of a real time ad bidding platform, it was revealed today.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Science is looking to incubate its own set of companies, make investments, and otherwise work to create the next successful startups. I thought it would be interesting to raise a tranche of money, to have a platform where we could incubate our own concepts, work with the best entrepreneurs around, and build new businesses.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

We spoke with co-founder Brenton Sullivan about the company''s platform, and how it''s hoping to transform the athletic recruiting process. Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes. Why is technology important here?

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socalTECH

JULY 20, 2021

The startup accelerator program--which is back in person now after a move online last year due to the pandemic--said the 12 companies include Alva Health (wearables for real time stroke detection), Butterfly Labs (health and wellness services), Cheres (social investing), Communikind (holistic health/clean products), ComplYant (helping entrepreneurs (..)

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

Veracity, which is backed by Microsemi and Frost Data Capital, recently inked a contract with the U.S. That's what we call OT, or Operational Technology. There are more and more valves, actuators, and pumps, as well as monitoring platforms, which have become computerized over time, especially over the last four or five years.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

We sat down with Steve to chat about what the Alliance is working on, and why he decided to champion the growth of the technology industry here. We are devoted to the mission of supercharging Southern California's technology ecosystem, and help it emerge as a world class technology hub by 2025.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

Crowdfunding is just the latest alternative for assistance to entrepreneurs who need help, supplementing the existing alternatives of loans, grants, angel investors, venture capital and many others. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2013

a crowd-powered platform that gives accredited investors access to exclusive deal flow and technology transfer opportunities has launched in beta its crowd-powered portal for startups, JumpStartFund. How its online incubation works. Social capital rewarded. El Segundo, CA based JumpStarter Inc.,

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Solicit venture capital investors. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. These are government funds allocated to support new technologies and important causes, like education, medicine, and social needs.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

A social analytics platform for Facebook app developers and publishers that provides detailed demographic and engagement data. Company plans to use the capital to build out sales and marketing and r&d. led by Altos Ventures and Maverick Capital, with Larry Braitman. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

According to recent statistics , there are already over 500 website crowdfunding platforms, such as Kickstarter , available; and over $5 billion was raised this way last year. A micro venture capital firm. A “genesis” venture capital round. Startup incubator seed funding. Here they are: A crowdfunding campaign.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha works tirelessly to build a platform of advocacy around issues such as tech inclusion, diversity, and education. Kira is the Innovation Program Executive at NASA HQ within the Office of the Space Technology Mission Directorate Office. Joanne Chen, Partner at Foundation Capital. As the President of Start Co.,

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 17, 2016

www.science-inc.com), the startup �studio� led by former MySpace CEO and technology veteran Mike Jones , just saw its third acquisition out of its portfolio this year�the acquisition of FameBit by Google/Youtube. They had been huge fans of the platform, and I think they had a super, genuine connection with Youtube, thus with Google.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2013

A few weeks ago, the University of Southern California announced a new startup incubator, the Viterbi Startup Garage ([link] backed by such notable investors as Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and the United Talent Agency. What''s the mission behind the new startup incubator? How did the incubator come about?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures. Founded in London in 2006, the Hub is a global network of social enterprises with each individual chapter acting as a gathering place for innovation, technology, creativity, and positive change. Fun Fact: Technology is in their DNA. Fun Fact: Technology is in their DNA.

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socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2014

Venture Partners, Shasta Ventures, First Round Capital and Richmond Park Partners--so we thought it would be great to catch up with co-founders Rich Raddon and Zach James to hear more about what the company is working on now. Then, we took that same technology stack, and thought--what more can we do with this?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2009

One of the industries which has seen a lot of activity lately in Southern California is clean technology, with a large amount of investment activity and new company formation. A hypothetical scenario, is an entrepreneur might be looking for a couple million to commercialize some technology, which takes algae and converts it to biofuel.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

The part of the movement that resonates the most with me (in my words) is that entrepreneurs should keep their capital expenditures really low while they’re experimenting with their product and determining whether there is a large market for what they do. I believe that over capitalizing companies too early often favors the VC.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 7, 2007

I've been reading or hearing quite a bit about how startups these days don't take nearly as much capital to create as they used to. If that's actually true, then it creates New Rules Of Technology VC. Sure, there are some fun things you can create quickly on platforms like Facebook that may get viral uptake.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

Today, the conversation on Cleantech with a panel of entreprenurs, doing work as local VC’s, university, incubators, and startups. Sandra Itkoff – Entrepeneur in Residence, UCLA Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer. Ian Harris - VP of Partnerships, LA Cleantech Incubator. Cleantech, a Misnomer.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego, established in 2013 as a satellite of the Sunnyvale, CA-based incubator, has funneled 15 local startups through the Silicon Valley program after providing some coaching and other services in San Diego. The other partners are Edward Adato and Daniel Schwarzblat.). (The billion under management.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2013

As the demands and supplies grew for advertising, we built a stable capital to create Engage:BDR. We also license our ad serving technology to publishers, advertisers, and other ad networks. To progress and be LA tech-focused, we started incubating ideas. Are incubating companies one of the main focuses of Engage:BDR?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. The Hybrid Group is passionate about making useful things with technology.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The iHub is a California state initiative that selected six locations in the state to serve as specific technology development hubs. Hank: I am the CEO and founder of Seco Sys, which is a platform that allows water agencies, customers, and water related services to concurrently engage in water conservation at all water use endpoints.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The iHub is a California state initiative that selected six locations in the state to serve as specific technology development hubs. Hank: I am the CEO and founder of Seco Sys , which is a platform that allows water agencies, customers, and water related services to concurrently engage in water conservation at all water use endpoints.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

It''s more about connecting then with customer, than BloomNation sending orders through the platform. From there, we actually joined the Muckerlab incubator, and essentially have been growing florists on the supply side. I have such respect for other platforms and technology. How long has the service been available?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

Richard grew up just outside of Toronto, entering the tech scene a few years ago, co-founding Ratehub.ca , a mortgage comparison and lead platform, with her technical brother; who left Microsoft Canada for the project. Large technology firms who are training sums of talent, check; one box filled on the startup ecosystem checklist.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

Crowdfunding is just the latest alternative for assistance to entrepreneurs who need help, supplementing the existing alternatives of loans, grants, angel investors, venture capital and many others. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors.

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