SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 19, 2012

Los Angeles launched its cleantech business incubator to accelerate development of cleantech start-ups by offering flexible office space, CEO coaching and mentoring, and access to a growing network of experts and capital. The next Green LAVA meeting will feature a fresh crop of businesses currently in the incubator program.

LAVA 113

LAVA Incubator Coach Startup 113

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2023

Utilize business content curators and coaches. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors. These days, if you can’t find money, you haven’t tried hard enough or maybe your idea isn’t a good one.

Startup 108

Startup Education Tool Entrepreneur 108

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. Don’t forget business writing and communication.

Startup 97

Startup Writing Coach Incubator 97

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

Utilize business content curators and coaches. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors. These days, if you can’t find money, you haven’t tried hard enough or maybe your idea isn’t a good one.

Entrepreneur 137

Entrepreneur Tips Startup Education 137

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. Don’t forget business writing and communication.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Tips Writing Coach 98

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Several funds and firms are participating in this investment including Rincon Ventures , Idealab ( Bill Gross built the original incubator and there will be active support from Allen Morgan ), Baroda Ventures , GRP Partners , David Cohen (founder of TechStars ), David Tisch (founder of TechStars NY ), DLA Piper and Stubbs Alderton.

Venture Capital 287

Venture Capital Funding Startup GRP Partners 287

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

In my view, the most effective entrepreneurs are those with a background of an array of real-life experiences, both positive and negative, as well as good academic and coaching activities. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. Don’t forget business writing and communication.

Writing 111

Writing Coach Incubator Entrepreneur 111

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right.

Venture Capital 364

Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

A good friend, and college athletics coach, very wisely said to me “you can’t fill a big hole with a bunch of little things.” We provide a startup studio which incubates and accelerates businesses and a pre-seed / seed investment fund. My brain wasn’t being challenged and my body and energy lost it’s “fire.”

Startup 105

Startup Case Study Ideas Invest 105

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

It's hard to get that kind of rapid feedback, guidance, coaching, and mentoring in such a short period of time elsewhere. The program is an accelerator, but not necessarily an incubator. What stage should those startups be at--do they need to have customers or funding, or just an idea? Omkar Kulkarni: Good question.

Mentor 100

Mentor Startup Coach Ideas 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2016

It's hard to get that kind of rapid feedback, guidance, coaching, and mentoring in such a short period of time elsewhere. The program is an accelerator, but not necessarily an incubator. What stage should those startups be at--do they need to have customers or funding, or just an idea? Omkar Kulkarni: Good question.

Mentor 100

Mentor Startup Coach Ideas 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

Utilize business content curators and coaches. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors. These days, if you can’t find money, you haven’t tried hard enough or maybe your idea isn’t a good one.

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 112

Frank Addante

OCTOBER 12, 2021

A good friend, and college athletics coach, very wisely said to me “you can’t fill a big hole with a bunch of little things.” We provide a startup studio which incubates and accelerates businesses and a pre-seed / seed investment fund. My brain wasn’t being challenged and my body and energy lost it’s “fire.”

Startup 52

Startup Case Study Ideas Invest 52

Xconomy

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Plug and Play San Diego, established in 2013 as a satellite of the Sunnyvale, CA-based incubator, has funneled 15 local startups through the Silicon Valley program after providing some coaching and other services in San Diego.

San Diego 40

San Diego Incubator Avalon Mentor 40

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

Utilize business content curators and coaches. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors. These days, if you can’t find money, you haven’t tried hard enough or maybe your idea isn’t a good one.

Startup 51

Startup Education Tool Entrepreneur 51

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2013

Stained Glass Labs’s incubator companies will be able to gain advanced access to the Exitround community of business and corporate development professionals and also get one-to-one coaching on strategically navigating corporate conversations. Partnership to give firms bigger business opportunities.

Google 87

Google Technical Review Press Software Review 87

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. He is going gangbusters, and is now targeting a $50M second round of funding.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Startup Seed Funding Incubator 101

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Recently I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both.

Startup 92

Startup Funding Seed Funding Incubator 92

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Lisa is an a skilled public speaking coach. Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. She invited me to be her guest on her radio show this week. I’m honored. Yesterday, I met with @LisaBraithwaite, a local Santa Barbaran. Gone are the days of 3.4 oz limitations and one quart clear plastic bags.

Social Network 180

Social Network Networking Yahoo Social Media 180

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

Utilize business content curators and coaches. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors. These days, if you can’t find money, you haven’t tried hard enough or maybe your idea isn’t a good one.

Entrepreneur 58

Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 58

InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

We realized that if we found a very competent person at the genesis of their entrepreneurial career, at the very, very beginning, we could actually coach and guide them through these critical decisions, to help them avoid fundamental mistakes. Adeo has worked hard to differentiate TFI from the other incubators and accelerators.

Entrepreneur 232

Entrepreneur Startup Equity Technical Review 232

InfoChachkie

MARCH 30, 2015

For many years after Microsoft became highly successful, its executives (yes, including Mr. Gates) flew coach. Our venture was located in an incubator, and as each of our neighbors went up in flames, we purchased their office equipment (and sometimes even their office supplies) in conjunction with taking over their office space.

Startup 100

Startup Pricing Coach Incubator 100

Steve Reich

AUGUST 9, 2012

At a recent accelerator event on the West Side, a friendly young founder told me that he had been coached by his mentor not to talk to Angel groups. I’ve been spending some time at LaunchPad and Amplfy, and some of the best startups in LA are at those incubators. As a Pasadena Angel, I wanted to be shocked, but I wasn’t.

Angel 49

Angel Pasadena Angels Pasadena Venture Capital 49

Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Lisa is a skilled public speaking coach. Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. I’m honored. Hoping for more projects with Marsha in the near future. Yesterday, I met with @LisaBraithwaite, a local Santa Barbaran. Gone are the days of 3.4 oz limitations and one quart clear plastic bags.

Social Network 196

Social Network Networking Social Media Yahoo 196

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2014

We are happy to now support every & all accelerator in town that provides capital and office space and we want to focus on mentorship, coaching, advice, community building, etc. With the success of Idealab in the 90’s every city was building out incubators. It’s where their passions are, too. Quality endures.

Venture Capital 290

Venture Capital Startup Idealab Funding 290

Steve Reich

AUGUST 24, 2012

I was lucky enough to be at LaunchPad LA last night to hear Dustin Dolginow from Atlas Ventures/ AngelList.co coach the incoming class on how best to use AngelList to fund their companies. Much of the advice was basic–have your elevator pitch down, raise enough $$ for 18 months runway, etc.

SEO 45

SEO Tips Coach Class 45

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

It’s also a very exciting time here in LA Tech with over 6 accelerators and incubators springing up over the past year. Tyler Crowley, of Sqweal, Launch, ThisWeekInStartups, Open Angel Forum, and Mahalo, stopped by to give a quick coaching session on pitch prep. Sunday morning rolled around and it was down to crunch-time.

Startup 66

Startup Mahalo Technical Review Idealab 66

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Our adVenture was located in an incubator, and as each Dot Bomb went up in flames, we purchased their office equipment (and sometimes even their office supplies) in conjunction with taking over their office space. For many years after Microsoft became highly successful, its executives (yes, including Mr. Gates) flew coach.

Startup 221

Startup Pricing Entrepreneur Email 221

Berkonomics

APRIL 24, 2014

Accelerators are organizations that selectively accept entrepreneurs into a program of intense coaching in a physical environment sponsored by the accelerator that also provides seed funds for the startup to begin its business. Others have a more local flavor, catering to single audiences, such as students or graduates of a nearby university.

Coach 250

Coach Seed Funding Summary Incubator 250

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Check out local sources for coaching and assistance. Don’t be shy about networking for advisors with business experience for coaching and mentoring. Sources should include local startup incubators, blog owners, and government support organizations, such as SCORE. The ability to pivot quickly is a key to success.

Startup 114

Startup Tips Coach Satisfaction 114

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The “ TenHands ” name emerged from the concept and philosophy of John Wooden, the UCLA basketball coach, who emphasized the value of teamwork and insisted that all ten hands (five players) touch the ball before shooting. What is TenHands and why the name? Co-founder and COO Jack Blaeser was President of BT Conferencing Inc.

Cloud Computing 65

Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 2, 2011

In the US we now have some very well established incubation programs run by high-caliber mentors including IdeaLab, yCombinator, TechStars, BetaWorks and Launchpad LA. Suddenly everybody wants to be an incubator. You know how this ends. Would I ever encourage anybody to drop out of his or her education? But stay in school.

Education 322

Education Startup Incubator Class 322

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

With new micro VC entrants into to early-stage investing plus increased competition from angels, incubators and the like – traditional VCs have taken notice. This will continue while we’re in a tech bull market and I predict will wane when we’re not. The Blurring of Investment Lines.

Venture Capital 296

Venture Capital Capital Software Startup 296