Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

The University of Southern California is home to many innovative students and companies. In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

From apps to hardware, to KickStarter successes and international startups, we’re inching closer to finding out who will take home the title of Startup of the Year competition at our annual Celebrate Conference in October. Among the dozens of participants that applied for the online competitions, only a few progressed into the semifinals.

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Competition Mobile Startup Technical Review 122

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

After many years in business, working in large companies as well as startups, I’m no longer surprised at why mature and successful companies struggle with introducing innovative new ventures as the market and environment changes. Make sure everyone comes with an entrepreneur mindset for real innovation.

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Incubator Seed Funding Metrics Custom 143

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. So he launched a company with exclusively paid search. They were a juggernaut and Google was a small company. Overture was sold to Yahoo!

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Tech Coast Venture Network is rounding up the finest entrepreneurs to compete for $25,000 in cash prize in their Survivor 7 Pitch Competition this Thursday, November 15th. The event will be held in Chapman University and has attracted over 30 companies that have submitted their pitch videos online.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 17, 2010

By Jim Flowers A few months ago, Marty invited me to comment on business incubation and what a startup company ought to expect from an incubator. These veterans work closely for three intense months with lightly funded, new company teams to maximize the opportunity in each start-up and squeeze out unnecessary risk.

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Incubator Mentor Capital Startup 80

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Get help with grant funding and incubator resources. These often lead to angel investors and venture capital investments later, or connections to local company venture funds for selected focus and technology areas. They can also connect you to area businesses. Visibility to startup job opportunities and career guidance.

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Entrepreneur Class Startup Resource 110

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 28, 2018

Research shows that such insights are actually the result of hard prior work on the problem, usually followed by time to incubate in the subconscious mind as we connect threads, before the ideas pop out as new innovations. Many companies rely on a technical expert, or team of experts, to generate a stream of creative ideas. Breed myth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 28, 2023

Strategic partnerships with other companies are a good way to extend the boundaries of your business and recombine resources. Today entrepreneurs are already implementing the Internet of Things (IoT), where every device can be connected to the Internet, to provide insight and feedback to your company. Marty Zwilling

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

A number of teams have recently been looking to turn that vision into reality, as a result of the Qualcomm Tricorder Prize , a $10M competition being run by the X Prize Foundation to create a real life Tricorder. That''s essentially how the Tricoder competition was formed--it''s time for this to happen. Mann implantable device area.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 1, 2012

Splash is a single-track evening event and startup competition. Splash brings together high-caliber speakers who talk about how to build and scale great successful companies, how their industries are changing and the opportunities those changes are creating. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Even though the plan by Los Angeles to create a Clean Technology Corridor on the banks of the LA river has yet to advance much beyond the planning stage, a competition pitting architects to create their vision for the clean technology zone has just named winners who have expressed their futuristic visions for what the area might look like.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 29, 2013

I was just down at Demo Day for the USC Incubator. They had some pretty high quality companies presenting. USC’s Marshall School of Business will host the second annual Silicon Beach Awards (SBAs), a $50,000 venture competition focused on innovation in technology & entertainment.

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USC Cornerstone OnDemand Startup Conference 159

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2020

Get help with grant funding and incubator resources. These often lead to angel investors and venture capital investments later, or connections to local company venture funds for selected focus and technology areas. They can also connect you to area businesses. Visibility to startup job opportunities and career guidance.

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Class Startup Resource Mentor 124

socalTECH

JULY 24, 2018

Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) and the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF) recently announced the California Climate Cup ([link] a new startup competition tied into the upcoming Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco in September. How did the competition come about? This is one opportunity to do that.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. And as I always assert, “Great companies are built in downturns. And it’s when mediocre companies get pulverized.” It’s when the game slows.

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Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

They provide peer group organizations, usually called incubators, with free resources, practice environments, and outside mentoring that can help you learn and pivot with minimal cost. Take advantage of free startup programs and mentors. Every school recognizes the power of “hands-on” work to help you develop your own ideas into a business.

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Entrepreneur Mentor Class Resource 157

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2020

Strategic partnerships with other companies are a good way to extend the boundaries of your business and recombine resources. Today entrepreneurs are already implementing the Internet of Things (IoT), where every device can be connected to the Internet, to provide insight and feedback to your company. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Tool Entrepreneur Ideas 127

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2022

Success in any business these days requires a constant flow of new and innovative solutions, to keep up with changes in the market, competition, and to attract new customers. An even better alternative could be stock options, linked to the long-term success of the company. Always promote from within rather than seek fresh blood.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I believe that first-time entrepreneurs also benefit hugely from working in close proximity to other companies. A tech lab is a perfect hub for this kind of cross-company fertilization. We’re recommending to our companies that they be distributed.&#. We don’t believe in it anymore.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

MuckerLab is one of a number of accelerators who have managed to scoop up venture funding for its companies, with such portfolio companies Surf Air, Retention Science, Wallaby, Chromatik, and others. We just had the demo day for our third batch of companies. How are things going over there at MuckerLab?

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Incubator Southern California Startup Ideas 187

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

What was the biggest news for you/your company this year? Our goal is to build a platform that helps our companies achieve best practices as quickly as possible on their way to becoming world-class companies. We went out on a limb in a competitive category with Wheels, and we did it because we believed in the founders.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based web hosting and cloud computing provider DreamHost (www.dreamhost.com) raised a big, $30M funding round for the company--the first in the company''s long history. The company- now has around $50M in recurring annual revenues. Our target market is entrepreneurs, creatives, and developers.

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Software Review Cloud Computing Technical Review Platform 238

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The company’s CEO, Brendon McQueen, graduated from Columbia with 12 loans that totaled over $120,000. Divshot, a tool for web designers and developers, won a national pitch competition and one of it’s founders Michael Bleigh created a popular open source library now included in Ruby on Rails.

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GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2016

Get help with grant funding and incubator resources. These often lead to angel investors and venture capital investments later, or connections to local company venture funds for selected focus and technology areas. They can also connect you to area businesses. Visibility to startup job opportunities and career guidance.

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Entrepreneur Capital Class Startup 55

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 29, 2014

“We’ve got an exciting and innovative group of companies coming together for this event,” Kyle Ellicott, Co-Founder/CTO of Wearable World and the GLAZED Conference said. ” Additional partners including IBM, Deloitte, Nod Labs, and Plantronics have also registered to participate.

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Technology Conference IBM IBM 104

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. As with most of Biden’s big infrastructure initiatives, there are startups tackling these issues.

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Startup Technical Review Invest Research 229

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2013

The successes Engage:BDR has right now, helps highlight LA as a city for tech companies to develop and grow. We talked to Ted Dhanik, the founder of Engage:BDR, about his company and the future of marketing. We built a lot of products to stabilize the company, such as full-serve and self-serve ad networks.

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Marketing Startup Incubator Advertising 96

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2016

Once upon a time, one of the best benefits that employers could offer up an employee was a company contribution to their retirement plan. Santa Monica-based Tuition.IO (tuition.io) has s created a way for companies to both help their employees tackle that mound of student debt, as well as attract better and more loyal employees.

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Help Startup Platform Santa Monica 100

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

We spoke with Ali Khoshgozaran , founder and CEO of the company, to learn more about the startup. Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. Finally, what''s next for your company? What is Tilofy about? How did Tilofy come about?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2015

To confirm the value of checking yourself, I find more and more investment organizations and startup incubators, including StartupAmerica and CoFoundersLab , already use a formal process, such as StrengthsFinder , as part of their screening process. You can even check your own DNA with his self-assessment against the four key types: Builder.

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Startup Incubator Entrepreneur Metrics 106

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Also at Startup Night will be 25 diverse and innovative startups showcasing their latest products, competing for prizes including: $1K from LaunchKC , Business Extra Points from American Airlines , and a fast tracked spot to the Startup of the Year semifinals competition at Innovate Celebrate 2018. Joanne Chen, Partner at Foundation Capital.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Success in any business these days requires a constant flow of new and innovative solutions, to keep up with changes in the market, competition, and to attract new customers. An even better alternative could be stock options, linked to the long-term success of the company. Always promote from within rather than seek fresh blood.

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Ideas Framework Summary Organization 94

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

Amazon in turn led to the formation of an earlier stage of venture capital now led by what I call “micro VCs&# who typically invest $250-500k in companies rather than the $5-7 million that VCs used to invest. This led to an explosion in startups. These trends have put pressure on traditional VCs. The Blurring of Investment Lines.

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Venture Capital Capital Software Startup 296

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Additionally, independent organizations, such as Pitchbook, compile annual lists of the number of VC-backed companies launched at US Universities. Thus, cast your research net beyond VC-backed companies to fully understand a school’s ability to foster viable businesses. Is there a venture competition with cash prizes?

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Venture Capital Technical Review Class Patents 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Hoffman should know, as an icon in the Silicon Valley, having educated and trained hundreds of startup founders as the CEO of “ Founders Space ,” designated by Inc.com as one of the top ten incubators and accelerators in the world. Great companies tend to build great ecosystems to provide added value. Being first is always important.

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Netflix Social Media Competition Custom 54

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 15, 2012

I define a "VC" as, "a professional investor who deploys third-party funds into relatively early-stage companies." In contrast, the operational experiences required to take a company from its founding through a successful exit are additive to early-stage startups. In contrast, an Angel Investor is someone who invests their own capital.

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