socalTECH

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Two, Southern California companies are on the list of the next class for Microsoft's startup accelerator, the Microsoft Accelerator for Windows Azure , according to Microsoft Monday. The startup accelerator is running the program in Seattle. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 16, 2014

Our 3rd fund began investing in March 2009 (raised in 2008) and our 4th fund started in April 2012 so this fund will naturally begin investing around March / April 2015. Our investment strategy has always been to do predominantly Series Seed & A round deals, which makes up > 85% of our first investments.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

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. I spent my professional career starting and running tech companies in Silicon Valley, and have been really successful at it. We have a way to go. None of this is easy.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2012

The startup said it has launched into San Francisco, Orange County, and San Diego, in addition to Los Angeles, and is also now part of the MuckerLab accelerator. LifeCrowd operates an online site which makes it easier for users to find group activities, such as classes and activities. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based LifeCrowd (www.lifecrowd.com) unveiled its service to help connect people with real life activities. The firm is initially focusing on the Los Angeles market, and connecting people with fun, interesting classes, activities, and more in the local area. Bong Koh: We started at the end of April.

Startup 271

Startup CTO Coach Activity Software Review 271

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

XRC Labs, an accelerator program focused on e-commerce and retail startups, held a demo day for its latest class Thursday, featuring innovations in artificial intelligence, virtual reality, and other technologies. Consumers are changing faster than the retailers,” and that is resulting in shoppers bypassing traditional stores.

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Artificial Inteligence Class Commerce Design 97

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The Founder Institute (www.founderinstitute.com), an entrepreneurial training program that originally launched by Adeo Ressi in Silicon Valley, recently announced that it is setting up shop in Southern California, with branches both in San Diego and Los Angeles. Ken Rutkowski is the man making happen here. Ken Rutkowski: No.

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Xconomy

APRIL 22, 2020

The start of a potentially big biomedical breakthrough is blooming within all of us. Positive results could help win over large pharmaceutical companies and investors who have doubted microbiome therapies. “In In every new (drug) class there’s always been people. Read more » Reprints | Share:

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Class Study Research Report 138

Xconomy

APRIL 17, 2017

San Diego-based TakeLessons set out nine years ago to create a Web-based platform that helped match music students with qualified instructors. TakeLessons also acquired Chicago-based Betterfly, which offered online vocational classes, DIY projects, and self-improvement courses like public speaking and personal life coaching.

Venture Capital 59

Venture Capital San Diego Santa Monica Coach 59

socalTECH

MAY 27, 2014

Southern California in recent years has become a hotbed of financial startups, and for years has been a destination for companies looking also to address companies across the border in Mexico and Latin America. One of the startups here at the intersection of both, is San Diego''s Quippi (www.quippi.com).

Startup 178

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

And in particular, if you're developing comedy and humor content -- which is a big segment of the content being created--how to do you help people find the content which will resonate with them. Daniel Altman: We recently were in the fall class of MuckerLab. So, we started to create ways of categorizing and classifying comedic content.

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socalTECH

APRIL 16, 2010

One of the types of startups we see most of nowadays, are private sale, limited time bargain, and local group buying startups. One of those startups is Orange County-based DealPerk.com (www.dealperk.com), which is headed by Albert Ko. I actually started my web site, CheapCheapCheap, while I was in college.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. How did the company start? Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC.

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USC CPC Sites Startup 207

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

How did Revolution Prep start? We started in 2000. Using that, and a partnership model where we go into schools and partner with them to provide SAT and ACT service, we've been able to build up a private tutoring service from basically nothing. Ramit Varma: I've been sort of in and out of the venture space since we started.

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

The mystartupXX accelerator is focused on providing mentorship, education, and funding to female-led technology-based startups at UC San Diego. The Growth Accelerator Fund competition is for organizations that help startups grow, become commercially viable, and have an economic impact.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2010

The videos on our web site have some proprietary techniques you can't find elsewhere, and we have thousands of heavy science videos on the site -- everything from Nobel prize winners, to National Geographic, to class videos on science and related to science, and even to things students are doing in high school.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

Hollywood 67

Hollywood Technical Review Startup Rustic Canyon 67

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Think “innovation” and you might picture some scrappy entrepreneurs toiling away in a kitchen or garage, hoping the landlord doesn’t notice what they’re up to. Alexandria has put up buildings in virtually every key life science cluster in the U.S., Lately, Alexandria is aggressively expanding its reach.

Venture Capital 40

Venture Capital Startup San Diego Class 40

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2011

That nightmare happened to Jim Carol , a serial entrepreneur who was co-founder and CEO of San Diego's PacketVideo , when his son was diagnosed with cancer. However, out of that experience, Jim channeled that frustration into a nonprofit, DonateGames (www.donategames.org), aimed at helping children with rare and neglected diseases.

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Pricing Help Startup Sites 183

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. I talked to one startup CEO who told me, “you have young engineers who want to make $200,000 or more to work for me. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. million in SF Bay Area ).

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

InfoChachkie

JULY 20, 2015

Santa Barbara has become a high-tech startup mecca, rivaling cities many times its size. The latest evidence of the city’s dynamic startup ecosystem is the recent announcement by Citrix to investment significant resources in the Santa Barbara Innovator’s Program. From Lynda.com ’s recent $1.5 From Lynda.com ’s recent $1.5

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Daradiction

JULY 22, 2013

Kris gets hired to shoot these events, and so we find ourselves in great towns like San Diego and Palm Springs getting to spend lots of time together in what feels like collegiate environment. Plus the view from our front porch is world class, overlooking a solid point break and white sand beach. I know it it mine. Washed Out.

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San Diego Conference Startup Class 76

Xconomy

OCTOBER 21, 2016

. —Xconomy reported Monday that Tom Daniel, Celgene’s (NASDAQ: CELG ) former president of research and early development, left the Summit, NJ, company over the summer to start Catalysis Advisors in San Diego. THE REGULATORS’ THUMBS GO UP AND DOWN. His slides are here.

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Research San Diego Report Slides 40

Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

Several world-class research institutions are located in the state, including Indiana University, Purdue University, and the University of Notre Dame. That law helped kick-start the modern tech transfer field. The program’s first initiative will focus on precision health. The results?

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Patents Research Anthem Education 67

Xconomy

JULY 14, 2016

Investing in affordable education and training at all levels of society would prepare people for meaningful work, and provide compensation that could help reduce social inequities and divisiveness. In Sweden, citizens and entrepreneurs gladly pay taxes because of all the personal and social benefits those taxes produce. Need more convincing?

Entrepreneur 40

Entrepreneur Education Training Invest 40

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

San Diego-based Awarepoint (www.awarepoint.com) is a developer of systems for tracking hospital assets, patients, and doctors, using RFID tags. We started with Wi-Fi based technology, using 802.11. We found out that just doesn't work, and our competitors are starting to find out too, for a number of reasons.

Startup 113

Startup CTO Hire Resource Venture Capital 113

Xconomy

AUGUST 19, 2016

Everyone is waiting until 2017, when huge studies of the drugs’ ability to prevent heart attacks and strokes start to provide data. — MIT Technology Review reported this week that a graduate student in the lab of Feng Zhang, Broad Institute gene-editing star, had accused the Broad of misleading the U.S.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Patents .Net Study 40

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. He uses his former home, a just-under 900-square-foot beach bungalow two blocks away, to house Facebook employees visiting from up north. More than 600 tech start-ups have sprung up in L.A.

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