socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Los Angeles has 8 percent of all the "unicorn" companies globally, according to a new study released Wednesday by the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business.

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Los Angeles Angel Southern California Study 100

socalTECH

MAY 17, 2011

New information released in a study of the IPO pipeline, finds that California continues to be the most active market in terms of initial public offerings. According to the Renst & Young LLP US IPO Pipeline study, California had 25 companies looking to raised $2.2 billion on the market in Q1.

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Southern California Study Activity Marketing 140

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. In 2016, our Santa Monica office more than doubled market share of early-stage companies. Though we bank companies large and small around the globe, here in L.A.

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Santa Monica Southern California Venture Capital SoCalTech 124

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2013

I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. Yet as obvious as it is to create messaging for your company, many people don’t consider their personal brands.

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Technical Advisors Marketing Startup Venture Capital 385

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Silicon Valley Bank , which provides banking services, loans, and other financial products to many startups in Southern California, has opened up its annual Startup Outlook Survey , according to the company this week.

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Southern California Startup Services Help 100

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

He’s done several startups and is a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (which is where I met him originally). Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. I’m more familiar with content marketing in B2B Marketing.

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Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2011

A new study released last night finds that Silicon Valley venture capitalists have gained significant confidence from last quarter. The survey included only San Francisco Bay Area venture capitalists, and did not take into effect investors here in Southern California.

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Southern California Study Mobile Report 160

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's technology industry. I think my ten active portfolio company CEOs and my colleagues at TVC will appreciate the evolving approach. Two big lessons in 2018.

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Capital Southern California El Segundo SaaS 113

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

We caught up with Jim Armstrong to learn more about the new fund, areas of interest, his insights into what makes startups successful, and where he thinks the venture market is today. I think there are a lot of opportunities across all of these areas of technology, especially as it relates to Southern California.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 17, 2012

Tuesday, March 20, 2012 -- Competitive Intelligence: 007 Market Intel. PDMA SoCal. The company president calls you into his office after attending a brainstorm session. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to estimate market size, competitive market share, how many potential customers are there, and price points.

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Competition Innocal Case Study SoCal 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Clean, safe and reliable natural gas company Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) has established $1 million innovation fund in partnership with Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) , to speed the development of clean technologies to meet current global energy needs and become a sustainable energy source.

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Incubator Los Angeles Southern California Funding 80

SoCal Delicious

MARCH 10, 2010

A new study of the financial outcomes for Southern California venture-backed companies in the IT sector finds that approximately $48 billion in value has been created by those companies over the period 1995-2009. Funk then focused the analysis on the 731 documented exits for the period 1995-2009. IPO in 1996).

Southern California 29

Southern California Study Venture Capital Redpoint 29

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 20, 2008

Friday, September 26, 2008 -- "Lean-Agile: Case Studies from Amazon.com and Profitline" SDSIC. More companies are adopting revolutionary new processes known collectively as Lean (reduce waste, improve quality, and time-to-market) and Agile (Scrum, XP) methodologies to develop and deliver the software their customers want, when they want it.

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Case Study Study Organization Software 100

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2019

The Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator just announced ten companies that have joined its program last week. Matt Kozlov: We created this program, because there has been lots of recent advances in the growth of the commercial, military, and civil space economy here in our backyard in Southern California.

Southern California 124

Southern California Startup Entrepreneur Los Angeles 124

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We probably haven't done as many investments in Southern California as we'd like, but that goes through different cycles. Jamie Montgomery: If you study cycles and study economic history, and I've had that privilege, there are short cycles and long cycles. If so, they will be adopted. They're all big winners.

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Funding Capital Artificial Inteligence Startup 160

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2014

I actually really enjoyed many of the points Muhammad made about marketing in general and I found myself nodding through the entirety of the article except for it’s core premise. It’s about looking out for and catching the next major marketing wave before others have grokked it. I laughed as I did at much of his rant.

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Technical Review SEM SEO Marketing 384

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

TAU Ventures is based in Israel, and is linked with Tel Aviv Universitybut it hopes to take a lot of what Behzad has learned in Silicon Beach, and apply that to companies coming from Tel Aviv University. Behzad Kianmahd: Cross Campus is one of the companies I invested in, as the first, lead investor, about seven years ago.

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El Segundo Southern California Startup Santa Monica 100

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APRIL 24, 2020

Carey tells us a bit about what OC4 is doing, how it invests and works with companies, and also gives startups some advice about how to approach moving forward in light of the pandemic. Carey Ransom: The way I think about it, is it is really the culmination of almost two decades of software and technology company building and investing.

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Invest Startup Ideas Examples 124

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

In the startup world, one of the most difficult journeys to market is by companies who are taking basic scientific advances and technologies originally developed at universities, and taking them all the way to use in the commercial world. So explain where you are now with the taking your technology to market?

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Startup Southern California UCLA Incubator 100

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AUGUST 2, 2017

How do you take a new, genetic test to market, and how do you bridge the gap between research and the market? Alan Horsager: We are an epigenetics data company. Alan Horsager: This was developed at the University of Utah and the University of Southern California. How did you decide to turn this into a company?

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USC Technical Review Startup Southern California 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Wednesday, February 15, 2017 -- CASE STUDY: FuelRod -- Mobile Charging on the Go. One company is rethinking the world of mobile power through rechargeable batteries; in a way you might not expect. MIT Enterprise Forum San Diego. See [link] (more)

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Enterprise Forum Mobile Case Study San Diego 100

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California.

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Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

SoCal startup Moving Analytics is tackling this global problem. We met at University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering’s Robotic Embedded Research Laboratory where Harsh is a Post-Doctoral Research Associate. Today’s digital health consumer has so many choices on the market.

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USC Southern California Activity Study 104

socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2009

One of the industries which has seen a lot of activity lately in Southern California is clean technology, with a large amount of investment activity and new company formation. So the concept is we're building companies with a very low budget, around $25,000 for each company. What is the site all about?

Southern California 193

Southern California Startup eHarmony Sites 193

Xconomy

AUGUST 22, 2016

In downtown San Diego, a private real estate company best known for its master-planned communities in suburban Southern California has posed some existential questions for regional tech hubs looking to build their own startup ecosystems. Can the Irvine Company accomplish something similar as the landlord at 101 West Broadway?

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Develop Development San Diego Startup 40

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Mobile LAVA welcomes BIA/Kelsey analysts Matt Booth and Michael Boland to share their insights into the trends, market events, companies and case studies that are driving current and future opportunities in interactive and mobile local media.

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LAVA Mobile Media Case Study 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 4, 2013

Through a series of real world case studies and interactive group discussion, this workshop will discuss how valuation relates to intellectual property in licensing, manufacturing and MandA transactions. Thursday, January 10, 2013 -- Corporate Valuations. See [link] (more)

Framework 113

Framework Case Study Study Capital 113

SoCal CTO

APRIL 8, 2010

Startup Company Lawyer , March 14, 2010 After the recent announcement of the Series Seed Financing documents by Marc Andreesen, Brad Feld points out that there are now four sets of “open source” equity seed financing documents. It’s the old – 5% of massive market gives us a big number.

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Startup Software Review Competition SoCal 150

Eric Greenspan

MAY 9, 2013

First, let me preface by saying that I’m not being compensated in any way by the company I’m about to talk about. It was an awesome company with a cult-like following and over 40,000 customers in Socal. I helped him study and I made it fun. About my company: [link]. This is a true story. Yep, really.

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SoCal Southern California IBM IBM 174

socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Pasadena-based Cramster (www.cramster.com) recently announced $3M in a large angel round for the firm's online study communities. Cramster is looking to create online study groups, to help high school and college students study math, science, and other topics. What we're trying to emulate is the face-to-face study group.

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Study Education Startup Sites 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. Over the course of the year our active portfolio companies received awards or recognition on over 35 separate occasions.

Capital 100

Capital Beverly Hills Artificial Inteligence Equity 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

One of the fastest growing startups in Southern California in recent years was Hautelook, which went from just an ideas to a huge, $270M acquisition by Nordstrom only X years later. I went to school at Babson, back East, and majored in finance and entrepreneurial studies. I moved out to California to build businesses.

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Southern California Startup Customer Custom 200

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We talked with Noah about how the company grew out of a business plan competition at the University of Southern California, his recent funding from the Maverick Angels, as well as how the firm hopes to stand out among a crowded list of comparison shopping sites. How did the company start?

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USC CPC Sites Startup 207

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 27, 2013

Spotlight: LA Tech is part of a quarterly demo series that will highlight the finest technology entrepreneurship in Southern California. TechZulu is ramping up to do it all again with an all new group of companies and a SuperDemo. This could be your company’s chance to shine in the Spotlight. Diamond Sponsor.

UCLA 104

UCLA Southern California Santa Monica Pricing 104

SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Learn how companies such as Cisco, SAP, Intel, NIKE Inc., This program will include an overview of the social business model, social business software and resulting business opportunities that are driving some of the biggest changes in sales and marketing practices in decades. Lufthansa, Swiss Re, T-Mobile and Yum!

Technology Council 113

Technology Council TCOSC Case Study Study 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2014

The world today is going increasingly digital, to such a degree that even quick serve and fast casual restaurant chains are eager to connect with consumers online, via smartphone, and even in their stores--so that they can better get to know you, market to you, and encourage you to visit. What is Tillster?

Mobile 127

Mobile Customer Custom Platform 127

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Tomorrow starting at 8pm PST We will be live streaming ( click here to view live stream ) the "Action Sports + Social Media Marketing Mash Up" event put on by SoCal Action Sports Network. Gregory Ferenstein, Fast Company Magazine. Efren Toscano Co-Founded TechZulu in the heart of Southern California: Orange County.

Social Media 40

Social Media Southern California Media Orange County 40