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APRIL 30, 2013

Los Angeles-based startup Kuyam said today that it has launched two, new mobile apps--one for the iPhone, another for Android--which allows users to schedule appointments at local services such as spas, fitness classes, gymnastics classes, and more. Kuyam was founded by Kourosh Gohar. READ MORE>>.

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Mobile Class Los Angeles Services 147

TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

SketchAR — this Lithuanian company is developing an AI-based mobile app for teaching drawing using augmented reality. This class shows us that there’s no shortage of innovation at the intersection of creativity and technology, and we’re excited to be part of each company’s journey.”.

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Artificial Inteligence Social Network Los Angeles Snapchat 331

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JULY 12, 2017

The Walt Disney Company has launched its fourth year of running its own accelerator program, the Disney Accelerator , saying on Tuesday afternoon that it has named eleven companies to its new class. The accelerator class is Disney's fourth.

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Class Companies Company Content 113

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JULY 9, 2015

According to Disney, the second class of the Disney Accelerator includes ten startups, who will participate in a three month mentorship and investment program. The second class includes Decisive (SaaS for mobile targeting); EMOTIV (brain monitoring technology); FEM Inc.

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Class Startup Burbank SaaS 100

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APRIL 5, 2016

The Techstars Healthcare Accelerator at Cedars-Sinai announced its first class on Monday, saying that it has selected 11 companies to participate in the first accelerator to be held at the Cedars-Sinai campus for the next three months. Demo Day for the accelerator class is June 23rd.

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Class Mobile Software Companies 100

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JULY 11, 2016

The Walt Disney Company has named its next class of startup participating in the Disney Accelerator , the startup accelerator and mentoring company held on the company's Burbank campus.

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Class Burbank Commerce Mentor 100

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

Techstars LA , one of three, Los Angeles area startup accelerator programs run by Techstars , launched the first class of startups at its first Demo Day on Tuesday at the El Rey Theater.

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Class Startup Mentor Education 100

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MAY 14, 2013

The startup--out of current Launchpad LA class, is developing an brainwave-reading headband which ties to your smartphone via a Bluetooth link, allowing users to monitor their brain patterns. kickstarter mobile bluetooth activity brainwave crowdfunding melon' READ MORE>>.

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Activity Mobile Class Los Angeles 185

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AUGUST 5, 2014

The startups included SideVision , an ecommerce software platform; Portal Entertainment a content development company; Bubbl , a developer of mobile and web-based video editing tools; Wisemetrics , social content publishing; Incoming Media , push notification for video; and Toggle , a developer of HDMI dongles for streaming UltraViolet content.

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Media Class Hollywood Incubator 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. And build great business they have.

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Class Startup Tech Coast Angels CTO Coach 100

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Virgin America said this morning that it has launched a brand new, in-flight social network, based on a mobile app from Los Angeles startup Here on Biz. According to Virgin America, it has launched an in-flight social network which is aimed at helping to connect fellow business travelers on its flights, via the free Here On Biz app.

Social Network 210

Social Network Networking Startup Class 210

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Only Hire A+ People Who Punch Above Their Weight Class. I believe that you should always hire people are are looking to “punch above their weight class,&# which means to hire people who want to be one league above where they are today. Weight Class : Let’s take sales. I’m not one of those. Your solution?

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Startup Sales Class CIO 327

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OCTOBER 6, 2015

Appetize provides a way for people to pay for concessions using their mobile phone. The startup is also part of the first class of the LA Dodgers Accelerator. Appetize said the deal included over 4,400 fixed and handheld point of sale units. READ MORE>>.

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Mobile Entertainment Class Sales 100

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NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Los Angeles-based Circle Street , the developer of a mobile advertising service to help retailers drive local store traffic, has been acquired by media and advertising firm Valassis , according to the company''s venture backer, Crosscut Ventures. circle street valassis merger acquisition mobile advertising local launchpadla'

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Incubator Advertising Mobile Class 153

InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Eric (Ries) was a student in one of the very earliest customer development classes at Berkley. Four Steps was essentially my class notes. The other major evolution of Steve’s thinking is in the area of web and mobile businesses, the latter of which were nascent at the time Four Steps was written.

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Startup Class Press Custom Development 229

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JUNE 16, 2014

Tapatalk''s software is widely promoted in online community forums to help users better browse and read messages from various community forum software products on their mobile phone or tablet. The company was part of MuckerLab''s third accelerator class. mobile software capital venture community forum tapatalk' READ MORE>>.

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Web Seed Funding Class Los Angeles 153

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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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Class Mentor Startup Santa Monica 261

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JUNE 29, 2014

It’s not hard to find people willing to write the narrative that “venture capital is not an asset class” or “venture capital has performed terribly.” ” The most recent was 18 months ago or so called The Kauffman Report. Here is a preview of what we found & what we will publish: 1.

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Venture Capital Capital Startup Writing 362

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MARCH 29, 2019

The firm said it is specifically investing in early checks for hardware startups, across multiple industries, including agtech, healthcare and biotech, mobility and aerospace, advanced manufacturing, cleantech, and other areas. That accelerator program is expected to run through December.

Capital 191

Capital Funding Startup Venture Capital 191

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JANUARY 30, 2013

StartEngine , the startup accelerator headed by Howard Marks, is launching its newest class of startups today in a private event in Santa Monica.

Santa Monica 178

Santa Monica Startup Activision Commerce 178

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MARCH 20, 2015

Rexter''s software--which runs across mobile platforms, tablets, and PCs--helps consolidate and manage their contacts from across social networking sites and email, and helps users manage those contacts and activities.

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Altadena Class Pasadena Yahoo 100

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.

Invest 237

Invest Startup Artificial Inteligence Class 237

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OCTOBER 16, 2012

The acquisition Tuesday of ThinkNear , the mobile advertising firm headed by Eli Portnoy, looks to be among the first accelerator-incubated companies in Southern California. for ThinkNear Tuesday morning, and make the company part of its mobile, local advertising group. TeleNav said it would pay $22.5M

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Southern California SoCal Incubator Advertising 159

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers. It was an investment management class. We’ll re-compare notes then.

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Invest Angel Technical Review Venture Capital 299

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

All 8 of the companies from our inaugural class of MuckerLab went on to raise follow-on funding -- many from some of the best venture firms like Founders Fund, First Round Capital, NEA, Lightbank, Greylock Partners, Mohr Davidow and others. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? toward one or two major dominate players.

Southern California 259

Southern California High Tech Activity Platform 259

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

is it OK to call an exec on his mobile phone. 15:00 Hire somebody who will punch above their weight class. How much to compensate them? how to structure the comp plan. How do you get access to customers? getting past the assistant. when to call. how to handle intros. What is your sales process? call high or call low?

Software Review 300

Software Review Sales Tips Help 300

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Venice-based Snap announced the third class of its Yellow startup accelerator class on Wednesday, naming ten companies to participate in its annual 14-week program in Los Angeles.

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Class Venice Los Angeles Equity 127

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AUGUST 20, 2010

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Sometimes that’s venture capital generally (like last year’s conversation with Reid Hoffman ) and sometimes it’s in a space where I’ve invested (like mobility and city innovation with Bird’s Travis VanderZanden , one of our portfolio founders.) We would argue that our movies are world-class movies, just designed entirely for mobile.”

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Content Netflix Platform Mobile 244

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 1, 2009

With the iPhone, Apple finally broke the hegemony that the telecom carriers had over mobile applications and that has stifled innovation for too many years. Mobile will likely spawn a whole new wave of innovation because it’s pervasive, location aware and always with you. We’re only in the second inning on mobile.

Venture Capital 255

Venture Capital Marketing Startup Social Network 255

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OCTOBER 11, 2018

Shopify , which develops software for merchants to set up e-commerce, mobile, social media sites, online marketplaces, bricks-and-mortar stores, and more, is setting up a space for entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, the company said this morning.

Entrepreneur 153

Entrepreneur Commerce Social Media Startup 153

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 30, 2014

Take electricity as an input and through a process called ultrasonic transduction to convert it to a soundwave that can be beamed from a transmitter to a sleeve on your mobile phone that would use and ultrasound receiver to convert it back to electricity and charge your phone. Would they build a world class team. Were they ambitious?

Technical Review 418

Technical Review Software Review CTO Hire IP 418

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MAY 16, 2013

It''s official--Los Angeles-based brainwave-tapping startup Melon is within a couple of thousand dollars of hitting its $100,000 fundraising goal, to bring its combination headband-and mobile-phone app to market. The startups is part of the latest LaunchpadLA class.

Seed Funding 153

Seed Funding Class Sites Los Angeles 153

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

It was a great chance for the class to interact with the community in LA. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email. The company’s first offering will be a mobile retail commerce platform. And of course we had, TheMan.

Companies 276

Companies Company Startup Southern California 276

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

Greg was the first person to share with me the insights of mobile conversion and why with a simpler product selection and conversion funnel they would get higher conversion on mobile than on the web. On each subsequent meeting I’d learn a little bit more. So we talked about his joining. I made some reference calls.

Venture Capital 360

Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

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OCTOBER 23, 2013

Loren Bendele: If you go to a grocery blogger class, they will tell you that you can save 30 to 40 percent on a regular basis, just by buying on sale, even when you''re not using coupons. loren bendele savings mobile favado coupon grocery shopping shopper bargain couponing' It''s good for them, and good for us. more) READ MORE>>.

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Mobile Sales Startup Sites 140

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MAY 10, 2017

According to Zynga, it has provided a "substantial gift" to USC's School of Cinematic ARts' Interactive Media & Games Division, to support diversity, inclusive game production, and the creation of "innovative social mobile gameplay."

USC 113

USC Southern California Funding Class 113