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. Mogul Millennial : a media startup sharing professional resources for Black entrepreneurs. Yellow investment SketchAR.

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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. How are you different from other startup incubators, etc? It's not entirely exclusive, however.

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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

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. Get help with grant funding and incubator resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

An underutilized, but valuable resource, every startup should investigate is a formal or informal connection to your alma mater, including any local university. Take advantage of the tech classes, labs, equipment, and graduate students looking for real world problems to research. Product research and prototype development.

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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. Warner Bros. What''s your big goal for the program? READ MORE>>.

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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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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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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 26, 2012

An underutilized, but valuable resource, every startup should investigate is a formal or informal connection to your alma mater, or even any local university. Take advantage of the tech classes, labs, equipment, and graduate students looking for real world problems to research. Product research and prototype development.

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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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DECEMBER 26, 2019

Our goal is to build a platform that helps our companies achieve best practices as quickly as possible on their way to becoming world-class companies. Dynamic entrepreneurs attract talent and outside capital, both vital resources to every startup. Thats the only formula Ive seen that leads to successful outcomes with regularity.

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DECEMBER 6, 2011

Start Engine, modeled after the YCombinator and TechStars accelerators, is running its first class of startups in January; the group is investing $20,000 in those companies, and providing other resources, mentors, and a program to help those startups get funded and into the market. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 4, 2013

Wearable World brings all aspects of our business offerings together nicely under one overarching umbrella, including GLAZED Conferences, WeCodeWe, Wearable Wednesdays and the Incubator.” Through news content, incubator and accelerator programs, and events, Wearable World acts as the catalyst for future Wearable Technology innovation.

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

Erik Rannala: MuckerLab is a new startup accelerator, focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. Part of what we're building out are more resources and funding opportunities for companies who are pre-series A, which currently has a big gap. Erik, thanks for the time. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Start Engine, started by Activision co-founder Howard Marks and investor Paul Kessler, said today that it is looking to provide mentorship, funding, and other resources to startups in the area, starting with a first class in January.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

startups attracting over $847 million in investment funds in 2012 alone, the city’s diverse resources are often too separated. s tech scene by the city’s own incubator-accelerator Be Great Partners. The City of Angels also offers exclusive access to one elite resource startups won’t find anywhere else in such abundance: celebrities.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

We will provide them with a lot of resources, a lot of knowledge, and inspiration and motivation, so that after 90 days they will be ready for presentation to angel investors, seed investors, and venture capitalists. It's structured so that they get funding, office space, all of the Internet resources, tools they need from mentors.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

Obviously, as with many other accelerators, we provide mentorship and shared resources, and help with creating a company, access to public relations, and other resources like legal help. When is your first class, and how many companies are you going to include? All of our mentors are investors as well. more) READ MORE>>.

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AUGUST 25, 2015

With the background of our ownership group, and their interest in putting capital to use and our resources to work, we saw the opportunity to create strategic partnerships. We saw the opportunity, and decided to put resources where our heads where. How was experience finding companies for this first class of startups?

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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. It''s not just people as a resource, in terms of productivity, but it''s really people in every respect. Silicon Valley runs on relationships. READ MORE>>.

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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. Resourcefulness to execute through ambiguity.

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MARCH 21, 2012

whereas in Los Angeles, there's sort of a paucity of those kinds of resources. That's actually borne fruit in our first class. Lots of accelerators are a work in progress, and they've just started talking to people to bring on resources to help out. LA is geographically diverse, and distributed.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2016

We select ten per class, and help those startups connect with mentors and other people in that local environment who can be helpful to the business. That worked well enough, we did another class in 2008 with another 10 companies, and in 2009 we expanded to Boston. The focus is on helping the startup.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Also, I consider ways to find and recruit world class team members and strategies for talking with investors--although mainly I focus on the product because ultimately everything starts with that. The main point of KlickFu--i.e., So I obsess about ways to iterate and make it better. Tell me a bit about the Founder's Institute.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

What was interesting to learn is that many new shows were incubated online and then picked up for network TV like “Ultimate Surprises” 36 episodes of surprise marriage proposals sponsored by Honda, Match.com and Robbins Bros. Online content isn’t a small market, nor is it going away anytime soon. Same with CreatorUp.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Last week Howard announced he has formed Start Engine, an incubator located in Westwood and focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Community Sponsors.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Idealab also continues to partner with leading venture capital firms and other strategic investors to provide the resources to maximize the potential of these companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Last week Howard announced he has formed Start Engine, an incubator located in Westwood and focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Community Sponsors.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Thousands of organizations have turned to TriNet for human resources, benefits, payroll, workers’ compensation, and strategic human capital services. Silver Sponsor.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Instead of the compose -> label -> prioritize model which can take up precious cognitive resources, they’ve switched to a “getting things done” perspective and leveraged existing behavior to create simple tools. Fetchnotes is run by a group of six entrepreneurs, four who graduated from the TechStars incubator.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Idealab also continues to partner with leading venture capital firms and other strategic investors to provide the resources to maximize the potential of these companies.

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Ran gold Resources Ltd. Talent agencies CAA and WME are incubating start-ups. Professor Journal. SmartMoney. Student Journal. Virtual Stock Exchange. WSJ Classifieds. WSJ Classroom. View All Search Results » Subscribe. América Latina. 中文-简体 (China). Deutschland. wsjSubnav).length href=dojo.query(.boxlink.boxlink-bubble.boxlink-first)[0].href

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