Three SoCal Firms Top National Entrepreneur of the Year List
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 19, 2012
Three, Southern California companies have topped the annual Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards in three different categories. READ MORE>>.
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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. But we have a great city for building technology companies.
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Stage 32: An Education Hub For Entertainment Industry Creatives
Tech.Co
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
And if you work in the entertainment industry, you have Stage 32. by providing cutting-edge online education to a global population of people looking to make it in the ever-evolving entertainment industry. In the past year alone the company has amassed over 1k hours of educational content and generated over $1 million.
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7 Indications Your New Venture May Not Be Investable
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 2, 2023
If you aren’t willing to take some risk as an entrepreneur, then don’t expect any gain. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing.
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10 Tests of Your Modern Entrepreneur Lingo Savvy
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. As a reality check, try this quick test of your entrepreneur savvy. As a reality check, try this quick test of your entrepreneur savvy. Super-angels.
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5 Strategies For Business Growth Many People Forget
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 31, 2018
Just ask former big brand companies, like Blockbuster, Kodak, Lehman Brothers, and Sears, what happened to them. Rather than rely only on linear thinking, the best entrepreneurs are always looking to offer in parallel a more dramatic new alternative. He entertains no sense of a static business.
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Ten High Risk Drivers Every Entrepreneur Faces
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 25, 2012
You have probably heard plenty of times that being an entrepreneur is a risky business, and investors talk all the time about reducing the risk. I don’t agree, for example, that the first priority is to avoid startups with a high attrition rate, like trendy restaurants and entertainment. What more could a budding entrepreneur want?
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7 Startup Proposals That May Raise Investor Red Flags
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 7, 2020
If you aren’t willing to take some risk as an entrepreneur, then don’t expect any gain. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing.
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Interview with Ken Rutkowski, The Founder Institute
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. Does Founder Institute focus on any particular business categories? READ MORE>>.
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Entrepreneurs: Don’t Quit Your Real Job Too Early
Startup Professionals Musings
JUNE 11, 2012
Many entrepreneurs I know feel guilty about not quitting their day job when initiating their startup, worrying about not giving their all to an employer, juggling the multiple roles, or even a legal conflict of interest. If you don’t have a partner, you’ll often lose interest and find something else to entertain you. Marty Zwilling.
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95 Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers
TechCrunch LA
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
A company like Moe will help legitimize the industry,” Bernstein tells TechCrunch. “I Founders and investors circling the space suspect a wave of Silicon Valley interest is coming, however, and that it will alter the category entirely. We are in phase three of the influencer economy. Bain Capital Ventures' Jamison Hill.
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Interview with Scott Grimes, Stackin
socalTECH
JUNE 8, 2020
How did the company start? There are lots of others trying to put content on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Tiktok, which is more about entertainment around social media. We curate the best products within each category of finance. Scott Grimes: I previously started a company, Uproxx Media, which I sold to Time Warner Music.
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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 15, 2014
There were many moments in each space when pioneers were funding startups and the press hadn’t written much about them and if you were a typical investor you were still funding the last trend while some VCs were trailblazing into new categories. The company has an R&D pipeline of similar food allergy areas it will address.
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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 23, 2011
I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. One of my goals in doing the show was not only to educate entrepreneurs but also to put a human face on many of the VCs in our industry as VCs can be hard to get to know. Thank you. (if 1:00 – 3:40).
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265 Creating the Next Generation of US Employees. My Investment in Treehouse
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2011
I’ve just completed an investment in Ryan Carson’s new company, TreeHouse. TreeHouse is also a video company. And while Maker Studios is pure entertainment, TreeHouse is pure education. Yet nearly every major tech company or major company hiring tech people have open recs. He sold both companies.
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295 Demo Video Lab | Crowdfunding Secrets to Success
Tech Zulu Event
FEBRUARY 4, 2013
Geared towards artists, entrepreneurs and innovators, crowdfunding is a great way to get any projects off the ground, be it startup, movie, music or invention. This is because the project itself was poorly planned and companies failed to produce a good video. Demo Video Lab will prevent you from making those common mistakes.
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90 7 Startup Scenarios That May Be Judged Non-Fundable
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 9, 2016
If you aren’t willing to take some risk as an entrepreneur, then don’t expect any gain. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing.
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Interview with Steve Seigel, Hatched
socalTECH
OCTOBER 11, 2016
We take a really friendly, Shark Tank approach that promotes young entrepreneurs, and lets them pitch to a group of seasoned investors and venture capitalists on a panel, and where they not only get an actual investment, but also go through a retail challenge, to get consumer feedback. You want to make sure to capitalize on that.
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100 7 New Venture Scenarios That Rarely Attract Investors
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 22, 2018
If you aren’t willing to take some risk as an entrepreneur, then don’t expect any gain. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing.
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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest
Tech Zulu Event
JUNE 11, 2013
Silicon Beach Fest is gearing up to showcase the most promising startups and visionaries from across LA’s growing startup entertainment ecosystem. Mark Suster of GRP Partners and Launchpad was confirmed to keynote along with Nely Galan of Galan Entertainment, the first Latina president of Telemundo.
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Investors Consider These 7 Elements to Be High Risk
Startup Professionals Musings
NOVEMBER 8, 2014
If you aren’t willing to take some risk as an entrepreneur, then don’t expect any gain. Here is my perspective on the highest risk elements, from my years of working with investors and watching startups come and go: All the co-founders are first-time entrepreneurs. New drugs usually fall in this category, due to side-effect testing.
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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of
SoCal Delicious
MAY 6, 2012
where entrepreneurs share their stories. 63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Free Corporations For First-Time Entrepreneurs. Right now they’re setting up 500 free corporations for first time entrepreneurs. Here are 62 63 Los Angeles entrepreneurs we can be proud of.
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10 Key Risk Factors to Minimize for Startup Success
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 28, 2013
You have probably heard plenty of times that being an entrepreneur is a risky business, and investors talk all the time about reducing the risk. I don’t agree, for example, that the first priority is to avoid startups with a high attrition rate, like trendy restaurants and entertainment. What more could a budding entrepreneur want?
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104 Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map
SoCal Delicious
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Founder and CEO since starting the company back in 1999, Miller has led Cornerstone through 11 years of consecutive growth.
Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal
Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 24, 2011
I invested in LA-based Gogii , one of the fastest growing, most exciting mobile social networking companies you’ve never heard of and maker of a product called textPlus. I quietly watched their success from the sidelines and kept spending time with and telling the CEO, Scott Lahman, that I wanted to invest in his next company.
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How Chippmunk Hopes To Use UX To Rise Above The Coupon Crowd
socalTECH
JANUARY 9, 2014
The company recently raised a $750,000 seed round of funding. We spoke to CEO Brian Nickerson --an Internet veteran with time at Yahoo and Internet Brands--about the company and its goals. All of them offer the same kind of coupon information for a store or category, but many of those sites that show up have very poor results.
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Creating the 21st-Century Fashion Brand, with Brett Markinson, Sole Society
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 19, 2012
Hautelook was able to help define--and conquer--the online flash sales category, in record time. We caught up with Brett to understand how Sole Society spun out of Hautelook and Nordstrom, what the vision for the company is, and how he's applying what he learned making Hautelook one of the fastest growing companies here to the new company.
Interview with Michele Ruiz and Dan Gould, BiasSync
socalTECH
OCTOBER 14, 2019
Los Angeles-based BiasSync (www.biassync.com) was founded by three, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Michele Ruiz (broadcast journalism), Robin Richards (CareerArc, Internships.com, NTI Group, MP3), and Dan Gould (former VP of Technology for Tinder). Most companies have not been able to address unconscious bias in a meaningful way.
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150 You Need to Win the Battle for Share of Mind
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 21, 2011
Are we seeing a time in which pre-revenue companies are more valuable than our offline institutional brands? It might be in online game platforms solving the problem of entertaining people. Or like a company I spoke to today, SportsForce , that is helping high-school athletes better prepare to get picked up by college sports teams.
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309 How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 21, 2010
I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). Many people start companies arse backwards. This is one of the biggest source of future problems for the company. the link is here.
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318 How Amavitae Wants To Help Youth Find A Career They'll Love
socalTECH
JANUARY 19, 2017
We sat down with Deborah to hear more about the app, why millenials and other youth are having such a hard time figuring out a career, and the company's solution. Deborah Ramo: The group of us who started the company are all very interested in solving problems. What is your app all about? How did this start? Look for ways to move up?
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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers
Tech Zulu Event
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” The old media companies were resistant to change. They have 15 channels of categories with publishers like Alloy Digital, U.S. Buys can happen on a keyword level or a channel category. from Carnegie Mellon University.
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Doppels Is the Birthday Matching App You’re Going to Love
Tech.Co
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
Hagger is hoping people will be able to relate to each other around different categories and build friendships. The company announced they have secured an exciting national partnership with Amazon to drive sales and disrupt their digital gifting experience. Doppels means ‘same’ in German. Express Yourself. Giving Back.
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Ten Key Elements Make a Startup a Risky Business
Startup Professionals Musings
SEPTEMBER 13, 2010
You have probably heard plenty of times that being an entrepreneur is a risky business, and investors talk all the time about reducing the risk. I don’t agree, for example, that the first priority is to avoid startups with a high attrition rate, like trendy restaurants and entertainment. Marty Zwilling.
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Interview with Kevin Strong, FutureDash
socalTECH
JANUARY 7, 2010
Kevin Strong: FutureDash is a software company, and our core technology is actually focused on real-time dashboards, primarily for consumers and small businesses. The founder of the company is Allan Hundhausen, who is President of the firm, who started working on the technology three years ago, and incorporated FutureDash about a year ago.
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140 Twiistup 6 Highlights
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 3, 2009
LA not only produced the obvious – MySpace – but also created the whole category of sponsored search (Overture), AdSense (Applied Semantics), Local Search (City Search), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla) and lead generation (LowerMyBills). Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup.
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Should Startup Founders Keep Their Day Job?
Startup Professionals Musings
MARCH 23, 2011
Many entrepreneurs I know feel guilty about not quitting their day job when initiating their startup, worrying about not giving their all to an employer, juggling the multiple roles, or even a legal conflict of interest. If you don’t have a partner, you’ll often lose interest and find something else to entertain you. Marty Zwilling.
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93 Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles
SoCal Delicious
OCTOBER 8, 2012
COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. COMPANY GOOG COMPANY|GOOG. COMPANY YHOO COMPANY|YHOO. COMPANY MSFT COMPANY|MSFT. COMPANY TSLA COMPANY|TSLA. PIXELS IN PARADISE | Andrew Frame, founder of the Internet-telephone company Ooma, paid $5.5 Financial News. Professor Journal. SmartMoney.
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Veteran LA law firm opens a Silicon Beach office and launches a pro-bono “Precelerator”
SoCal Delicious
NOVEMBER 8, 2012
Next → As startup ecosystems evolve and mature, validation of their viability comes in waves from entrepreneurs, investors, and service providers alike. We hope that the platform will allow entrepreneurs a streamlined transition to an accelerator program, financing or to otherwise launch their businesses.”. Post navigation.
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44 TZ Startup Hot Seat | Adam Kanner CEO of ScoreBig [Invites]
Tech Zulu Event
APRIL 13, 2011
I heard a lot of pitches from companies hoping to help us at the NBA solve this problem, but none of them directly addressed the issue without risking the brand of our teams and the cannibalization of full priced tickets. How did your company get its initial funding? Do you keep up with other companies doing similar things?
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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 16, 2012
CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. Company founders, led by Ravishanker, made the strategic choice early on to bypass venture capital.
Spotlight: LA Tech Winter | Recap, Videos, and Thank You!
Tech Zulu Event
FEBRUARY 8, 2012
After some pre-game mingling, we began our evening with demos from companies that had been picked from months of company submissions. Crowd Seats came up first to give their two minute breakdown of the company. Our next company to present was Danger Room Gaming and their Rapid Fire Trivia games. Bill received his B.S.
Interview with David Aronchick, Hark
socalTECH
MARCH 3, 2011
Last week, we talked with Fouad ElNaggar of Redpoint Ventures about some of the interesting companies in Southern California. How is the company funded and backed? He joined Redpoint after we founded the company, but before we had gotten the money. Hark is backed by Redpoint, and happens to be co-founded by Fouad.
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201 Small Ideas, Big Benefits
InfoChachkie
SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
Entrepreneurs create opportunities by creating ripples, and mini-ventures are great ripple creators. If the crowd is gathered to see an entertainer, you could sell T-shirts, posters, etc. the smartass entrepreneur replied, “It’s called business. I was once on the Board of such a company. From Small to Tall. Track Record.
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