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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socalTECH

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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Funding Southern California Activision Class 214

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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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

The program is basically to take entrepreneurs, pair them with a mentor who is also an entrepreneur themselves, either a CEO or a CTO. It's structured so that they get funding, office space, all of the Internet resources, tools they need from mentors. There might be one or two mentors, one might be a CTO, another, a CEO.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

chapter of the Media, Entertainment and Technology Alliance (METal) and the voice of KenRadio's World Technology Roundup on CBS Radio, Rutkowski has recruited a roster of mentors to coach entrepreneurs who enroll in the institute's programs in LA. The structure is weekly classes, but with office hours and additional access to your mentors.

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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. Connections to a mentor. Marty Zwilling.

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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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

To that end, last week, Los Angeles-based MuckerLab (www.muckerlab.com) announced its plans--and a big lineup of local CEO mentors--to start up a new, YCombinator- and TechStars-type program in Los Angeles, headed by former Silicon Valley venture capitalist Erik Rannala , and affiliated with the TechStars Network.

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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. Connections to a mentor. Business plan assistance.

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socalTECH

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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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. Warner Bros. How long have you been doing this?

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

They are always overlapping, so in essence, we have a freshman and senior class, so teams can collaborate, and get the benefit of the peers before them. There are pretty significant resources there that standalone incubators don't have. We have two annual cohorts, each of which has a 12 month residency period.

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Marina Del Rey Startup USC Incubator 150

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. All of our mentors are investors as well. What inspired you to start this? more) READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

The TMP began in the late 1990''s as a single class inside the Engineering College. Although the classes are open to students of all disciplines, the Program''s primary focus in on educating "techpreneurs.". Salty Girl Seafood - Another focus of the TMP is the recruitment and mentoring of women entrepreneurs. All-Star Alumni.

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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. billion combined.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

In a highly efficient business, everyone knows that the core function is always the priority, and controls are in place so that the people and resources who serve it are protected. Someone decided to initiate a software arm to grow the business, so key executives and skilled resources were re-allocated to start a software project.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 22, 2015

Provide mentoring and self-learning opportunities. Most startups don’t have the time or resources to send team members to formal training classes, either in-house or off-site. Most big company executives have forgotten how to do the work -- they make decisions and expect staff members to implement them.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Professional angel investing takes time, knowledge, skills and resources. The investor must see this class of investment as completely discretionary, where all of the money may be lost, but the experience will be one that the investor benefits from and enjoys nonetheless. Entrepreneurship is inherently full of mood swings.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

But, we felt that there was an opportunity to tap into some of the resources in Los Angeles for companies focused on the straight technology area, as a source of new companies. We have a lot of world class universities here. That''s the reason we developed our own positioning there.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 21, 2014

Our founder, Yves Sisteron, was my mentor and board member at my first startup. I think it really helps to have been an entrepreneur in the past both because I have a strong sense for which former employees will be able to punch above their weight class and also I think there’s a certain rapport of having worked together before.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 21, 2012

Her brother convinced her to find a way as he was already booking a first class ticket for her. Ash Kumra is an inspirational speaker, mentor, founder of DesiYou, Inc. It also allows others in the community the opportunity to help and connect you with the right people or resources.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Created by Howard Marks, co-founder of Activision, and Paul Kessler, one of the most prolific investors in Los Angeles, Start Engine will provide local startups with the essential resources and counsel they need to become successful, self-directed businesses. Silver Sponsor. Tech Coast Angels is actively seeking great startups to fund.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

Our global and diverse team of engineers, scientists, and researchers with world-class expertise in video conferencing, object recognition, object tracking, and augmented reality is committed to continuous innovation and fostering an entrepreneurial culture that will accelerate the commercialization of our revolutionary technologies.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

He wanted more resources allocated to him and he would begin wondering whether he might rise in the organization. If you want to attract world class talent you have to be inspirational, persuasive and persistent (they best people always have other offers). But it wasn’t just about company structures.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Created by Howard Marks, co-founder of Activision, and Paul Kessler, one of the most prolific investors in Los Angeles, Start Engine will provide local startups with the essential resources and counsel they need to become successful, self-directed businesses. Silver Sponsor. Co-Host & Venue Sponsor.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels CalTech Startup 84

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

It was great to get some new ideas around the table and to have some money to execute on our plans with more resources than before. The board was unanimous in our opinion of this including outside director Ian Rogers who has served as Jonathan’s mentor and friend. We had VCs show interest in funding awe.sm

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

She has been interviewed by Tony Robbins “as one of the world’s leading lifestyle and online marketing experts and mentored young business owners at Richard Branson’s Centre of Entrepreneurship in South Africa.” Same with CreatorUp. Very impressed with the quality of each.

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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

JUNE 17, 2011

We offer our services and resources to startup firms so that they can focus on marketing strategy, PR or planning new features for the upcoming releases instead of burning their cash on product development. We have helped many other startups through our carefully designed investment model. mt) Media Temple, Inc. Want to Sponsor?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Providing more than just money, TCA brings connections, knowledge, mentoring and operational assistance to bold early-stage entrepreneurs with game-changing ideas. 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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Tsavo Idealab Tech Coast Angels Userplane 76

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Providing more than just money, TCA brings connections, knowledge, mentoring and operational assistance to bold early-stage entrepreneurs with game-changing ideas. 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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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Providing more than just money, TCA brings connections, knowledge, mentoring and operational assistance to bold early-stage entrepreneurs with game-changing ideas. 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 Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Providing more than just money, TCA brings connections, knowledge, mentoring and operational assistance to bold early-stage entrepreneurs with game-changing ideas. 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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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Providing more than just money, TCA brings connections, knowledge, mentoring and operational assistance to bold early-stage entrepreneurs with game-changing ideas. 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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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49