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13 Ecosystem Builders That Are Boosting Startup Growth

Tech.Co

The barriers to entry when it comes to launching a company require less tension and a lot less capital. In 2006, a passion to help startups grew into Tech Cocktail , a company whose mission was to showcased burgeoning companies in bars around the country. Pledge 1% (San Francisco, CA). Memphis, TN).

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Interview with Wade Eyerly, SurfAir

socalTECH

Surf Air (www.surfair.com), launching out of the Muckerlab startup accelerator in Santa Monica, is looking to create a new way of flying, taking aviation and combining it with the subscription model. Those mentors and others have given us really tangible advice. What's the idea behind SurfAir?

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George Powell – Doing Well By Having Fun

InfoChachkie

The world’s largest skateboard company, Skate One produces many of industry’s best-selling brands, including Powell•Peralta Skateboards , BONES Wheels and Mini•Logo Skateboards. George spent the first ten years of his career, gaining experience in the aerospace industry, before founding his skateboard company in 1976 at the age of 33.

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Interview with Alex Schneider, Ventura Ventures Technology Center

socalTECH

The event this week launches some companies, and showcases the talent we have in the space. Alex Schneider: We designed the space to be a real creative, collaborative environment. It's a place where companies can network with each other, collaborate the business, in a brainstorming atmosphere. What is the Ventura incubator?

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

Tech Zulu Event

Excellent companies being submitted and most of which I wish could all be part of this amazing night. He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. Still Time to Submit Your Company!

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Interview with Richard Koffler and John Morris, The Tech CEO Network

socalTECH

We're looking for inventors interested in commercializing and spinning out their technology into a company. Universities have a bunch of companies on either side that have done that. If an existing company is not interested in licensing, and a researcher is not an entrepreneurial spirit, those projects go no where.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

Tech Zulu Event

Bill Gross founded Idealab in March 1996 and serves as the company’s Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab. In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc.

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