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Reflections on 2019: Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures

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Personal mobility and transportation innovation are absolutely massive issues for citiesespecially Los Angelesand we watch the categories closely. We went out on a limb in a competitive category with Wheels, and we did it because we believed in the founders. mobility and transportation, space tech, and esports.

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Silicon Beach at USC 2013 | Entrepreneurial Inspiration

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All in a room at the University of Southern California Silicon Beach Event on September 18th, 2013. As one of the organizers, Jay Tucker explained, “The Silicon Beach movement is the future of the Los Angeles tech area – tech, mobility, digital content, entrepreneurship, etc. Startup Pitch Competition.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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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. Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. How did Tilofy come about? READ MORE>>.

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

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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. There are a couple of companies that have already done fundraising whereas at a normal incubator non of them would have even started.”.

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Creating the 21st-Century Fashion Brand, with Brett Markinson, Sole Society

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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've been engaged in about thirty startups, anywhere from in incubators, being an angel investor, to leading the charge.

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How Serviz Plans To Conquer The Home Services Industry

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Zorik Gordon: We incubated this at ReachLocal, and spun it out in February of last year. All of its is 100 percent on-demand, and all of our technicians have mobile devices. We feel like we've made a lot of progress in the last ten months in Southern California, and we've seen what it takes to open up a market.

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