socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Qualcomm said its Qualcomm Robotics Accelerator will focus on helping to accelerate the development of a next generation of robotics and intelligence machines. Qualcomm said it will invest a total of $1M in funding to support program participants, and will initially select 10 companies to participate in the program. READ MORE>>.

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San Diego Incubator Class Invest 147

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2020

Most aspiring entrepreneurs look to their alma mater, or any university, as a source of classes that can help them, but neglect to think outside the box or take advantage of all the other resources to be found there. Online or evening entrepreneurship classes for anyone. Online or evening entrepreneurship classes for anyone.

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Class Startup Resource Mentor 124

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

A traffic jam of expensive cars lined up to pull into the packed parking lot of MuckerLab for its second graduating class demo day. Tech Coast Angel investor Dale Okuno came out because he believes that MuckerLab attracts better talent because they keep their class size small and focused. Or maybe a goldmine.

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Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

My answer always varies as I examine each deal, sometimes deferring and passing on an investment because of an uneasy feeling about the entrepreneur, even if the business plan seems able to capture the market. Would you, as an investor, plow money into the plan and help to incubate the idea into a real enterprise?

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Ideas Summary 120

Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

My answer always varies as I examine each deal, sometimes deferring and passing on an investment because of an uneasy feeling about the entrepreneur, even if the business plan seems able to capture the market. Would you, as an investor, plow money into the plan and help to incubate the idea into a real enterprise?

Venture Capital 120

Venture Capital Entrepreneur Ideas Summary 120

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Most colleges have now added classes in entrepreneurship to include the necessary business focus to technical majors that usually drive innovative ideas. Every school recognizes the power of “hands-on” work to help you develop your own ideas into a business. Make a summer internship your best learning class.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Class Resource 157

socalTECH

AUGUST 12, 2014

has figured out one way -- which is to run a startup accelerator, Warner Media Camp (www.mediacamp.com)--which pulls a class of startups into the company for an intense, twelve week program every year, and helps those companies tap into the resources of the studio. Is there an investment in companies related to the program?

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Startup Technology Hollywood Media 159

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Well, perhaps it’s time to consider an incubator/accelerator program: Programs like Silicon Valleys’ Y Combinator which essentially put entrepreneurs through a 3+ month startup boot camp. They talked about the day-to-day experiences and overall their biggest value points from their time and money investment.

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Incubator Startup Mentor Entrepreneur 107

socalTECH

JANUARY 27, 2010

On Thursday, the City of Ventura is formally launching a new incubator, the Ventura Ventures Technology Center (www.v2tc.com), targeted at high tech businesses. The incubator so far includes startups Lottay , Geodelic , and a number of other Internet and other technology firms. Tell us about the incubator--how long as it been around?

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Ventura Incubator Technology Startup 200

socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2015

Tucker Kain: In 2012, when the current ownership group bought the Dodgers, the group they pulled together was pretty heavily investment focused. They all had come from backgrounds as investment professionals, which is how they had built their own businesses. How was experience finding companies for this first class of startups?

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Startup Invest Resource Entertainment 100

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Launchpad LA today announces it will accept applications for its third class of Los Angeles-based tech startups. And my company is hugely relevant to what they’re doing so having an advocate at senior levels there is certainly a help.” So What is Different for Class Three? ” We get feedback like this often.

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Venture Capital Funding Startup GRP Partners 287

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Silicon Valley’s big VC firm’s The Social+Capital Partnership, Andreessen Horowitz, Formation8, Ron Conway, and Anand Rajaraman have today launched Data Elite , to help tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges through data science. Limited big data funding & incubation. The package of a lifetime.

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Netflix Incubator Class Funding 82

socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Los Angeles-based Start Engine , the business accelerator being spearheaded by Activision co-founder Howard Marks, said today that it has created a new, $15M investment fund for its portfolio of startups, and added former Governor Gray Davis as an advisor. Start Engine did not provide deals on the structure of its new $15M investment fund.

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Funding Southern California Activision Class 214

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

Most aspiring entrepreneurs look to their alma mater, or any university, as a source of classes that can help them, but neglect to think outside the box or take advantage of all the other resources to be found there. Online or evening entrepreneurship classes for anyone. Online or evening entrepreneurship classes for anyone.

Entrepreneur 55

Entrepreneur Capital Class Startup 55

TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

My company Putta Crown On It has the opportunity to have a place to do classes, promotional shoots and more,” Sykes told TechCrunch via email. The price of membership varies depending on what resources an applicant is looking for, whether that’s marketing, help connecting with potential brand partners or use of studio space.

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Platform Social Media Netflix Content 210

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

We caught up with Sam Teller , who is directing efforts at the accelerator, to help fill entrepreneurs in on where the program fits in the world of technology and startup acceleration. It was really just something built for the community to help support entrepreneurs. Our current class has performed incredibly well.

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Class Mentor Startup Santa Monica 261

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This was a big year for Crosscut because were finally delivering on our promise of implementing a full-scale investing platform after 11+ years in business. 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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Southern California News Platform Class 100

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

A friend recently asked me to give his startup-minded daughter some advice to help her vet undergraduate entrepreneurial programs. Through these student and faculty interactions, I have gathered empirical (but non-scientific), first-hand evidence of the factors that contribute to a world-class undergraduate entrepreneurial program.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Class Patents 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I do think the way we work with companies is a little different from other programs, in that we view it much more like the wasyI personally think about investing and venture capital. That is, once you invest in a company, you''re a shareholder, and you help that company for the course of its life.

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Incubator Southern California Startup Ideas 187

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

This is class four for Launchpad LA. million led by GRP Partners, with participation from Baroda Ventures, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), Daher Capital, Double M Capital, Karlin Ventures, Clark Landry, Andy Rankin, and Launchpad LA. We’ve been blown away by the performance of the eight companies in this class.

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GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

socalTECH

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Earlier this week, the Disney Accelerator held the demo day for its second class. We caught up with Michael Abrams , Senior Vice President, Innovation at The Walt Disney Company , to talk more about this year's class of companies and the program. What was the most interesting thing about this year's accelerator class for you?

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Class Mentor Entertainment Resource 100

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. I helped them raise a few rounds of funding, ran their European operations. Then I started working for these companies as well.

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Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Erik Rannala: MuckerLab is a new startup accelerator, focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. He created one of the first industrial R&D labs, and hired and brought in a bunch of investors to help iterate, and experiment, and build new products. Erik, thanks for the time.

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Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

K5Launch (www.k5launch.com) is modeled after the successful Y-Combinator and TechStars acceleration programs, and invests equity, provides mentors, and runs a three month program to get very early stage startups off the ground. Our challenge is to help start, fund, improve, and grow 1000 companies in five years.

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Orange County Southern California Startup Class 192

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right. I would call their portfolio companies and ask how helpful or not they’ve been.

Venture Capital 364

Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2013

Silicon Valley’s 9+, an accelerator founded by serial entrepreneur and company builder Peter Relan is investing $110,000 into game developers to quit developing games and shift to consumer, mobile, Big Data and wearable apps. At 9+ entrepreneurs can expect a comprehensive platform to help them become founder-CEOs. Growth hackers.

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Startup Develop Development Incubator 79

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

In what has been an unprecedented surge in interest in helping entrepreneurs, there have been more than a half dozen accelerators--most patterned after the successful YCombinator and TechStars programs elsewhere in the country--established in Southern California in the last month or so. When is your first class?

CTO Coach 194

CTO Coach Startup Mentor Activision 194

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns. Being in its inaugural class, Startup UCLA is still sorting through its own identity and business model issues. Comment help. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Post navigation. ← Previous. 5 comments. 4 people listening.

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UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

and I thought if we brought the community together for common purpose we could create more of a sense of community to help new entrepreneurs get funded, assemble teams, raise profiles and help with biz dev, product, etc. Between the group of us we were probably helping launch 75-100 companies / year. So we went for it.

Venture Capital 290

Venture Capital Startup Idealab Funding 290

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

This morning, Techstars (www.techstars.org), the startup accelerator which has had great success in spreading its approach to helping to get startups to the next stage of their life�usually, funding�announced it has opened up its third accelerator in Los Angeles, Techstars LA. The focus is on helping the startup. billion combined.

Startup 100

Startup Los Angeles Mentor Class 100

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. You can also find help with coding, programming, someone to help check out wireframes, consulting, help with capital advisors, etc.

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Startup Los Angeles Entrepreneur Media 254

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

It's a curated marketplace, with best-in-class products and experiences. We were incubated and launched in Canada in 2014, and at the end of 2015, we launched in the U.S. We always thought Canada was more of a test group for helping us launch the product, and it's been working as hoped it would.

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Mobile Platform Commerce Class 100

socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2010

If you about it, their customers have begun opening up their purses, which have been kind of tied up in the last 18-24 months, they haven't been investing in new technology or products, and equities are getting more expensive. Sumant Mandal: When we make investments, we generally don't invest in acquisition candidates.

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Clearstone Idealab Incubator Invest 140

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

He can’t help himself: He’s Dave. How to help his companies. Hell, I can barely manage 10 investments – how could anybody do 500? Wasn’t when Dave started championing it and making it a tenet of his incubator class. My pal Dave has blogger Tourette’s. He has it on stage, too, at conferences. Not much more.

Startup 309

Startup Venture Capital Email Writing 309

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He didn’t tell it in the video but, ever the entrepreneur, Scott started a business to take couples up on a “mile high club&# flight on airplanes as a way of getting all of his miles logged to get his next class of airplane license that required a certain number of hours logged. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

Many entrepreneurs I know don’t realize that the language they learned in the corporate world, or even their recent MBA class, won’t get them ahead in the startup world today. Just for fun, I’ve come up with a scoring system based on my own non-scientific survey to help you rate yourself on your level of entrepreneur business acumen.

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Entrepreneur Startup Web Equity 109

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

But in the end we selected David Lin , a superstar who did 4 years at the technology investment banking firm Montgomery & Co and 4 years as Director of Strategy at the comparison shopping site PriceGrabber where he dealt with many operational issues. I programed macros to help my mom with her Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets for work.

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337