socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Today's contribution is from Lawrence Ng , serial entrepreneur who, last year, founded OnRamp Fund , a $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups. Lawrence Ng: Our biggest news was growing our global incubator, OnRamp. Setting up the device is very easy and you can start your cooking from their app on your mobile.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2016

The new app was created in conjunction with startup incubator LiftOff, which is led by Kraft and Venkat. Kraft also was the founder of Thrively, UberMedia, and BigStage Entertainment, among other companies. Venkat was also co-founder of Thrively, and also founded CoreObjects. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Michael has been behind such companies as HelloSociety (acquired by New York Times), FameBit (acquired by Google) and Dollar Shave Club (acquired by Unilever). What was the big news for your company this year? So far, we have launched a handful of blockchain companies and are looking forward to more partnerships in 2018.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2016

Doppels , a startup which develops a mobile app to connect people with the same birthday with each other, said it has set up shop in Los Angeles. The startup's CEO is Matt Hagger, who founded a startup incubator in London called E-Man Labs; the company's co-founder is Eli Shmerler, who comes from Belgium. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2012

On July 27, 2012 the AT&T Developer Program and Apigee produced the Mobile App Hackathon in Los Angeles, California. Spearheaded by Alex Donn , the event was designed for both technical and non-technical attendees to build apps over the course of a weekend at Io/La , an incubator/co-work space in the heart of Hollywood.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2015

The LA Dodgers has opened the doors on its first, startup accelerator program class this morning, unveiling the 10 companies included in the first LA Dodgers Sports & Entertainment Accelerator. At least three of the companies are originally from Los Angeles, including FieldLevel, Appetize, and Focus in Motion.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 17, 2013

The new app is the first application launching out of TouchFrame , a new startup out of the MuckerLab incubator in Los Angeles. TouchFrame has teamed with 51 Minds Entertainment, part of Endemol, to develop what it says is a TV-quality play along game show. The Braindex game is free on the App Store, and runs on iOS 6.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

We're looking to launch our first class in the fall, with five to ten companies, with the TechStars model of a small capital investment, and a seed investment of $6000 per founder. Typically, venture backed companies, always entrepreneur led. Then I started working for these companies as well.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2019

The Techstars Starburst Space Accelerator just announced ten companies that have joined its program last week. We brought together Starburst, along with the US Air Force, NASA's Jet Propulation Laboratory, Lockheed Martin, Maxar, SAIC, and other companies in the aerospace industry in North America. What's changed in the last few years?

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 4, 2018

It doesn’t matter if you start a company in a coworking space, a dorm room or on your couch, the struggle to build a tech business in this day and age is real. For many founders, getting noticed by investors, potential customers, incubators and other companies, is a necessity to take your product to the next level.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

The theme for Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood is startups and Hollywood, featuring leaders from movie studios, music labels, agencies, and startups in entertainment – how Hollywood studios are investing and working with startups, and how Silicon Beach startups are making entertainment businesses. See you there!

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong – mobile payments has been a very hot area over the past couple of years with the success and growth of both Boku and Zong. Boku and Zong focus mostly on mobile payments for virtual goods. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. 15mm in Series A.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

We spoke with Ali Khoshgozaran , founder and CEO of the company, to learn more about the startup. If you''re familiar with Shszam, the mobile app which scans and tells you who an artist is, we''ve created something like Shazam for the real world. Finally, what''s next for your company? What is Tilofy about?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Their roster of success includes numerous pioneering tech companies, many of which continue to be industry leaders today — Overture, BillMeLater, CitySearch, and more. Fun Fact: A team from OKCupid works out of the space, as well as a few of the best civic-focused tech companies in LA. Incubator: Amplify LA.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

This is a term indicating the use of “crowd appeal” to get money from interested people on the Internet for a share of your company. Social mobile web. Rewards include becoming the “mayor” of an entertainment location via FourSquare , to winning badges via a Badgeville campaign. Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Startup accelerator.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

We are all coming from a background in entertainment. Once they brought me on board, I told them Bedloo needs to go mobile. We started to work on the mobile site and I had an idea of Bedloo being kind of like an Instagram for voting. How fast mobile is changing. TechZulu: Why call Bedloo, Bedloo? What were the fun times?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

In a short, densley packed timeline, our panel of industry experts discussed the fine line topics of wearables technology, bitcoin, SaaS, cloud, mobile gaming, and social markets. Richard Wolpert – Managing Director of Amplify.LA, startup incubator and Venture Advisor at Accel Partners. Enabling Social Change.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Or if you did something really interesting / innovative in a startup company. What is the future of social media, digital television or mobile computing. He heads their business development practice and they have been very active in incubating, investing in and helping grow LA startups. Analyzing industries / companies.

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LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Speakers included Mayor Eric Garcetti , Snapchat influencer Jake Paul (fresh off his 60 Minutes appearance), Loot Crate cofounder Chris Davis (whose company just topped the Inc 5000), and early Snapchat & Riot Games / SF-based investor Peter Lasky. . — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) October 25, 2016.

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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. They also gave a quick tour of the dashboard that clients would be using to customize their now mobile ready sites.

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Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

I spent my professional career starting and running tech companies in Silicon Valley, and have been really successful at it. My last company got acquired by Qualcomm, and Qualcomm wanted me to move to San Diego to run their emerging business portfolio. How did you decide to found the Alliance? I love the place. It's a phenomenal place.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

Companies in the accelerator can walk upstairs, talk to someone who's already been funded, and get counsel on how they went through that process. In addition to the companies, we're leasing space to companies who have already gained capital, and second and third time entrepreneurs. Can you talk about that space?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2011

That’s right folks Idealab is hosting a job fair at their offices for 10 of their startups companies. They are looking for coders, roboticist, marketing managers, and community managers, to fill the areas of their Green Tech, Social Media, Big Data, and Enterprise companies. Participating Companies. .

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

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. Location-based entertainment is shopping. I've been doing that for 25 years.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall is garnering some excellent companies being submitted and most of which I wish could all be part of this amazing night. He has contributed to the success of dozens of companies, including the funding and strategic acquisitions of Movoxx, Tsavo and People Media. Still Time to Submit Your Company!

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

The large gathering of top investors spilled out of the office into the surrounding sidewalk and swelled with buzz and speculation of what the 10 newly formed companies had to offer. Okuno has been investing in Los Angeles startups for the past three years after selling his own company E-Z Data. Or maybe a goldmine. Founded by L.A.’s

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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. Following a quick ice-breaker game of “Half-baked” where anyone in the room throws out a word to then generate an entertaining pitch, the real pitches began. By 6:30 the house was packed and SWLA was underway.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

After starting three companies, I've found that some widely accepted advice lead me to failure while. You work in (or run) a services company. Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Intrapreneurship: Embracing Disruptive Innovation Within Your Company. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Apps, content, mobile. .

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

Cloud computing and the open source movements have brought down the costs of starting a company by more than 90%. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. From this we have seen a commensurate boom in the number of startup companies. Mobility really changes everything.

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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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