Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2021

Product research and prototype development. Take advantage of the tech classes, labs, equipment, and graduate students looking for real world problems to research. Every university has entrepreneurial courses or evening classes that can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Business plan assistance.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2014

Do you have a hardware product you''d like to bring to market and scale? A new, cross-border startup accelerator-- HardTech Labs --said yesterday that it has launched a new, startup accelerator aimed at helping hardware companies take their companies to full production. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. This early stage is often called basic research , well before any specific commercially viable products might be envisioned. Commercial product prototypes. Product verification and clinical trials.

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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. And build great business they have.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. This early stage is often called basic research , well before any specific commercially viable products might be envisioned. Commercial product prototypes. Product verification and clinical trials.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Angel investors and venture capitalists are looking for startups with real products and a proven business model, ready to scale. This early stage is often called basic research , well before any specific commercially viable products might be envisioned. Commercial product prototypes. Product verification and clinical trials.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. Tell me a bit about your background.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

With its third class of startups, Yellow, Snap’s in-house startup accelerator that launched in 2018, brought investors and founders together in private slack channels after a live-streamed presentation. This morning, Snap joined a host of startup accelerators shifting its demo day online amid the COVID-19 quarantine. ”

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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. So What is Different for Class Three? Jackson, Tumblr, and Dick Clark Productions. Adam played a hands-on role in helping many of our last class through funding and even took some board seats and advisory roles.

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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. This is our second class, and it culminates in this Demo Day we just had.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Turn on your phone and look at the productivity folder. You’ll be more productive within three weeks time. We discuss productivity, emails, communication, and the dynamics of the team. “ I was taking a class at Michigan about lean startups; it was a great environment that I treated like an idea marketplace.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Today, we're featuring Erik Rannala , founder of MuckerLab , the startup accelerator focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 21, 2011

It’s a three-month program providing its selected startups with $21,000 in seed funding, plus the typical incubator benefits like shared office space, legal assistance, infrastructure and hosting, and mentorship from a network of advisors. What are you waiting for startups! Applications are now being accepted HERE.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Data Elite launches at a time when most needed as most big data companies lack the much required funding and incubation. Limited big data funding & incubation. “There are many funds, incubators, and accelerators out there that entrepreneurs can turn to today for general business advice. . No room for failure.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The Disney Accelerator , held its Demo Day for its second class on Thursday, showing off ten companies to a theater packed full of venture and angel investors. A number of the companies--showing off one huge advantage of being involved in a program run by Disney--announced deals with Disney properties to use their technology and products.

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Artificial Inteligence Class Burbank Software Review 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Product research and prototype development. Take advantage of the tech classes, labs, equipment, and graduate students looking for real world problems to research. Every university has entrepreneurial courses or evening classes that can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Business plan assistance.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Redg Snodgrass co-founder Stained Glass Labs said the firm wants to focus on the world of Wearable Technology plus innovative consumer products beyond GLASS. Wearable World brings all aspects of our business offerings together nicely under one overarching umbrella, including GLAZED Conferences, WeCodeWe, Wearable Wednesdays and the Incubator.”

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socalTECH

JANUARY 10, 2013

Los Angeles-based online event promotion service Planana , the startup founded by Anna Sergeeva and Fei Xiao, said Thursday that the company has been accepted to the DreamIt Ventures Winter 2013 class in Austin, Texas. The startup said that it will be demonstrating its products at SXSW at March 8th, at the conclusion of the program.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

This is class four for Launchpad LA. The product integrates with Salesforce, Twitter, Zendesk and many other popular SaaS products. We’ve been blown away by the performance of the eight companies in this class. Over 500 startups applied last quarter to Launchpad LA’s accelerator, but only eight were chosen.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

We got over 400 applications for the ten slots we had open in this class, and we picked ten amazing companies. So far, eight of the ten companies in our current class have raised outside funding, and we're really happy with how it's gone so far. Our current class has performed incredibly well. So when is the next class?

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Although we will do roughly one class a year, that''s 10 or so companies under the accelerator, seed stage model -- but we don''t really limit to three months in-and-out. When we look at companies, the simplest way to think of it is product-market-fit. Increasingly, our conviction is that three months is not long enough to do anything.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2013

I invite game developers and product professionals to take what they’ve learned from building mobile games, to become founder-CEOs, and to re-imagine the way consumer apps are developed and monetized.” ” 9+ adds that game developers know Engagement and Monetization focus through big data and analytics in freemium products.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2012

Product research and prototype development. Take advantage of the tech classes, labs, equipment, and graduate students looking for real world problems to research. Every university has entrepreneurial courses or evening classes that can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Business plan assistance.

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Entrepreneur Incubator Mentor Research 92

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

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Los Angeles- and London-based MakieLab , one of the companies out of Disney's recent Disney Accelerator class, started shipping its Disney-themed, custom 3D printed dolls on Friday, with clothing and designs from Disney properties. READ MORE>>.

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Design Class Los Angeles Customer 100

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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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

How that works, is when you download Giftagram, you can peruse through gifts in different categories that we have set up, and see what products we have. They are changing all the time, and we constantly have new products and partners, as our inventory churns and things are no longer available, or if they are seasonal in nature.

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Mobile Platform Commerce Class 100

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 productivity at the studio is much better than the house for business and content.”. “I feel like the studio has the potential to be a great place for creators like me to thrive.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 29, 2014

The in-flight test, which will take place on a new American Airlines Airbus A321 Transcontinental (A321T), featuring three classes of service, individual AC power outlets and USB jacks available at every seat throughout the aircraft as well as Gogo’s upgraded ATG-4 Wi-Fi service, will showcase the next generation of wearable technology.

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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. There are lots of incubators here-- practically every school or municipality has some kind of incubator--but they don't have an accelerator.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

More specifically, K5Launch is an accelerator will take startup companies--both existing companies and those that are not yet fully funded--who would like to get to a Series A, and allow them to apply to become part of a boot camp program, which lasts three months, and enables them to build their product and validate the market of that product.

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Orange County Southern California Startup Class 192

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Their "Drive To" product provides a web-based navigator, which require no download, and we saw that there were lots of things we could do together to target the right person, at the right time, using a web-based GPS. We had to push, and believe in building our product and company, and making it world class. It was really great.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

The best person I know to talk about the growing entrepreneurship culture on campuses is Alex Zhang, a student at USC and the Managing Director of the student-run incubator LavaLab. Zhang shares his thoughts about Los Angeles, incubator programs, and more. What is LavaLab/what is the vision? What is LavaLab/what is the vision?

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socalTECH

APRIL 20, 2010

Sumant Mandal: I think there have been a lot of strategics today who feel the markets are changing for the better, and want to make decisions around new product, and now is the time to do it. So very much strategic, product-extension kinds of buys? That's the belief system. You should build your company.

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Clearstone Idealab Incubator Invest 140

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2012

New products or services to existing customers. They know you and your brand, so this should minimize your customer acquisition cost for the new product. Add services that are complementary to your product. Or add products that are complementary to your services. Or add products that are complementary to your services.

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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. Minimum Viable Product (MVP). It suggests the minimum features to allow the product to be deployed and get feedback, and no more. Startup accelerator.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2015

Those companies wanted to partner with us, and to put commercial arrangements in place with the Dodgers, to better validate their product and why they were building what they were to solve industry issues. Tucker Kain: We're always thinking of our fans, and creating a better experience, a better product, and a better team on the field.

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