socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

LaunchpadLA, which is among a number of startup accelerators which have emerged over the past few years and turned Los Angeles into one of the hottest startup markets in the nation, offers up $100,000 in an investment, free office space for four months, and access to mentors. READ MORE>>.

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Class Startup Web Design Mentor 168

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2018

In an unusual move, the San Diego International Airport is hoping to make it easier for startup and innovators to figure out how well their services work in an airport setting, with a new Innovation Lab , the company said on Monday.

San Diego 100

San Diego Startup Mentor Ideas 100

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Every entrepreneur and every business I meet in my consulting and mentoring role has great intentions of bringing real innovation to the market, yet I find that most ideas are merely small extensions to existing solutions. Both fail to look first at what customers really need, and are willing to pay for.

Startup 146

Startup Mentor Entrepreneur Ideas 146

socalTECH

JANUARY 30, 2013

StartEngine provides $20,000 to $100,000 in funding to promising startups, and also offers up mentoring, office space, and help in getting those startups to the next stage. StartEngine , the startup accelerator headed by Howard Marks, is launching its newest class of startups today in a private event in Santa Monica.

Santa Monica 178

Santa Monica Startup Activision Commerce 178

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Employers also have a hard time looking for viable candidates for their company. Pablo joins TechZulu and talks about Proven, job markets, and the future of mobile. We clearly went through some difficult transitions in the company. The company almost died. Hearing that your company almost died. That was rough.

Mobile 86

Mobile Marketing Writing Startup 86

socalTECH

MARCH 11, 2016

Venice, California-based Rally Networks , a startup which uses free charging stations in public locations to help spread the word about mobile apps, has been selected for the new Virgin Media Accelerator that is launching in London. READ MORE>>.

Media 100

Media Networking Venice Mentor 100

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Companies: Spotlight Companies. Mobile Web America, Inc. The time has finally arrived!

CalTech 91

CalTech Company Companies Idealab 91

socalTECH

MAY 7, 2018

According to the airport, the new accelerator program hopes to help startups and others bypass what normally has been an "arduous and lengthy" RFP process which typically occurs when companies want to try to implement their services at airports, which can take up to 2 years.

San Diego 100

San Diego Startup Mentor Ideas 100

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. READ MORE>>.

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Class Entertainment Mentor Organization 100

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Those programs--epitomized by YCombinator in the Bay Area, and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado--attract newly minted entrepreneurs with a mixture of cash and mentoring, and a program which rapidly takes ideas and turns them into viable, executing businesses. Those mentors are not just Bruce and I, although we are full time on this.

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Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

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. There were people walking around the room with orange ties called Senseis that were there specifically to mentor and support developers with programming issues. Here is a list of the winners.

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Hollywood Mobile HTML JavaScript 82

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Touted as both the first and largest of its kind in Europe, the more than 300 attendees will go through a weeklong boot camp where they will network with other entrepreneurs and pitch to more than fifty business mentors and investors.

Southern California 180

Southern California Entrepreneur Mentor Mobile 180

socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

Are users willing to check into local businesses with another, mobile check-in product? We caught up with co-founder Michael Wong , who told us about how the company is looking to change the model for local check-ins, and also help businesses with getting the word out about their services. Can you talk about how your company is funded?

CTO Coach 223

CTO Coach Startup Mobile Artificial Inteligence 223

socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2013

The accelerator said that the demo day is a culmination of its latest three month program, which included ten new companies in mentoring, collaboration, funding, and access to its network of investors and entrepreneurs.

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Class Startup Incubator Los Angeles 159

socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2013

What''s the idea behind the incubator--which gives its startups $20,000 in capital, education, mentoring, working space, and more--and how is it tied to USC? Ashish Soni: I don''t want to talk for them, but what I can say, is they are a big believer in engineering backed companies, technology ventures which are led by engineers.

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Incubator USC Startup Artificial Inteligence 233

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Our mobile phones are capable of doing almost anything these days. The nuts and bolts of our tech company is that CMS in the middle, the connection engine. All part-time guys, I was in business school and I was working at The Honest Company. The four guys that built Porter were all working at The Honest Company.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

Tech.Co

JULY 12, 2017

What you might not realize is that the adorable droid was the brain child of Sphero, a robotics and digital technology company and an alumni to the Disney Accelerator program. “This year, more than ever, we are working with companies with the potential to help define the future of media and entertainment together with Disney.”

Artificial Inteligence 108

Artificial Inteligence Startup Entertainment Press 108

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To learn more about how women are looking to change the investment climate--and get involved in investing themselves--we caught up with one of the Pipeline Fellowship''s local mentors, the CEO of Beyond Capital Fund (www.beyondcapitalfund.org), Eva Helene Yazhari , who is here in Los Angeles. It''s really a fantastic way to get mobilized.

Angel 276

Angel Invest Mentor Technical Review 276

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2013

He shared tons of information about how how they were using marketing to quantitatively make marketing decisions at HauteLook and acquire customers for prices that were far cheaper than similar companies. He was also the first one to challenge my conventional wisdom that it made no sense for tech companies to advertise on television.

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Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup Invest 360

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

There is a large menu of startup accelerators in the Los Angeles, but one of more established efforts in the area is LaunchpadLA ([link] The effort actually started as an informal mentoring program, but has grown and expanded to follow the accelerator model. Then, it turned out, all of those companies did really well.

Class 261

Class Mentor Startup Santa Monica 261

socalTECH

AUGUST 5, 2014

The program graduated six companies out of its internal incubator program Monday, showing them off at a Demo Day. Most of the companies included a strong element of technology, and many of the startup entrepreneurs in attendance had a strong engineering--rather than content--background. at the intersection of technology and media.

Media 124

Media Class Hollywood Incubator 124

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2013

In today’s uber-connected, social media, everything-is-public, people tell you there’s killing it with these new features, investor & mentor whiplash – it’s hard to avoid the latest thing. Microsoft throwing money at me to build a mobile app. The new thing. The shiny object. Facebook Fan Pages launch.

Course 368

Course Resource Social Media Design 368

LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

Up to seven companies will be selected for this year’s program, which launches right after Labor Day, and wraps in the middle of November. THRONE , the mobile peer-to-peer marketplace for the $85B sneaker and streetwear industry, which prior to joining SMASHD had received $25,000 from DreamIt Ventures.

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Mentor Venture Capital Draper USC 75

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

After months of submissions and the amazing help from our judges , the Spotlight is shinning down on awesome companies that were born right out of Southern California. And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Companies: Spotlight Companies. Leveraging mobile application and online platform.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2013

In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). How to find a startup mentor. LaunchpadLA Opens Up Spring Applications. Broadcom Powering New Mac Wireless. Surf Air Gets First Aircraft. Solarflare ($22M, San Diego, high speed networking).

Southern California 168

Southern California Technical Review SoCal San Diego 168

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 27, 2022

For example, BlackBerry was really the first in the smart mobile phone market, but they never thought beyond their tiny physical keyboard as they added new features. One way to do this is to nurture mentoring relationships with experts in other disciplines, as Bill Gates did with Warren Buffet.

Competition 139

Competition Examples Customer Custom 139

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

The Spotlight is shining down these amazing LA companies! And now without further ado I present the Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Winners: Spotlight Companies. It gives music companies a direct pipeline to market their products and services to music fans. Spotlight: LA Tech Summer SuperDemo is all electric car company CODA.

CalTech 100

CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

A couple of weeks ago, twelve companies moved into the new downtown San Diego, EvoNexus incubator--which is run by CommNexus. When companies come into our incubator, we take no equity, we take no stake in the company, it's completely free for the participant. That's through the generosity of the Irvine Company.

Incubator 212

Incubator San Diego Technical Review Development Team Review 212

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 7, 2021

As a mentor to aspiring business owners. In business, just leading your company is not enough. These leaders also carefully consider timing—when to make a move or to discuss issues, or mobilize other leaders to focus on common objectives. Learn to delegate the operational decisions, to give you time to manage strategic ones.

Patents 138

Patents Mentor Customer Custom 138

Tech.Co

JANUARY 10, 2018

Julia Rose, CEO and cofounder of Vagine.co , a Kegel trainer and mobile app that helps women strengthen their pelvic floor, uses tasteful humor to open an uncomfortable topic about incontinence and sexual dysfunction which can be embarrassing to discuss. Mentors can help you anticipate issues and plan for them accordingly.”.

Tips 71

Tips Customer Custom Dollar Shave Club 71

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I don’t run one of the world’s largest companies but I can tell you for free that even I get some crazy physical mails because knowing one’s corporate address is quite easy. It’s why the only rude or unexpected mobile phone calls I get are from telemarketers. I have even had to get physical security advice from some of the crazy.

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Email Writing Conference Mobile 250

socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2015

Last week, Los Angeles-based Sense360 raised $2.75M in a funding round, to go towards its development of a platform to help developers pull together information and make sense of all the data coming from your mobile phone. Tell us about your new company? What did you learn from ThinkNear that you''re applying at this new company?

Startup 100

Startup Platform Mobile Advertising 100

Tech.Co

MARCH 1, 2018

What you’ll also find is that of the 25 companies, our founders represent an inclusive group with 40 percent female, 52 percent minority and 12 percent veteran founders from 14 states and 5 countries. Beast Mobile (Kirkland, WA). How will Beast Mobile cut down the cost of your ever-increasing cell phone bill?

Startup 79

Startup Mentor Platform Help 79

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2012, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. OrangicStartup’s is a company that helps Internet startups start. Dan Dato , Mentor at upStart.LA.

Tech Coast Angels 105

Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 10, 2012

She’s worked for L’Oreal, Accenture, Virgin Mobile & BSkyB (one of the leading media companies in the UK). You won’t really have a mentor unless lightening strikes. But if you seek one out, most talented employees would gladly become your informal mentor.

Writing 414

Writing Mentor Blogging Tips 414

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

We were also about to build a really solid mentor network in a short period of time, pulling in about 250 CEO's and CTOs, from all backgrounds and locations. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world this year? 7 years, 100 companies. It was a big year for us. That's huge.

Southern California 168

Southern California High Tech SaaS Social Media 168

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

It’s even more exciting when you can report an exit of a company that is a major win. HealthDataInsights (HDI) is a company that helps to recover money for the government or private insurers who have been incorrectly billed or fraudulently charged. 9 companies out of 33 drove our largest returns. Solving bigger problems.

GRP Partners 285

GRP Partners Technical Review Truecar Invest 285