Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

The best person I know to talk about the growing entrepreneurship culture on campuses is Alex Zhang, a student at USC and the Managing Director of the student-run incubator LavaLab. Zhang shares his thoughts about Los Angeles, incubator programs, and more. What is LavaLab/what is the vision? What is LavaLab/what is the vision?

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 19, 2013

The 9+ incubator has already closed $2 million in funding and has already attracted gaming entrepreneurs eager to create a new breed of mobile services including gaming entrepreneur Jason Citron who developed the early iPhone hit Aurora Feint and the hugely popular OpenFeint platform. 2 million raised. Growth hackers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Of course, with more startups, this is still a tough space, with VCs funding only one out of 400 requests they get, and Angels limiting their focus to one out of 40. Startup incubators and accelerators are popping up everywhere. Business incubators were all the rage before the dot-com bubble (700 for profit, many more non-profit).

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Startup Entrepreneur Social Media Satisfaction 109

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2012

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. Kudos to the rockstar developers and designer in my team. There were many cool apps created over that weekend.

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Hollywood Mobile HTML JavaScript 82

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

It’s interesting to me that two of the most talented tech leaders of our era – Bill Gross & Paul Graham – have both opted for a model of incubation to encourage young tech entrepreneurs to build disruptive businesses. Quora is one of the better designed new products of the past few years in my opinion.

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Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Rock Prodigy is an intelligent iOS app and offers definitive, interactive, fun beginner guitar course of 150+ lessons/practice exercises with video tutorials through 49-day calendar that you can follow at your own pace. How It Works. it’s like a video game! Winning the USC’s Silicon Beach Awards however is not their only accomplishment.

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Education Startup Technology Patents 106

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Mingle is a networking service that uses location to discover and create relevant connections.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

And now, of course, UberSocial, Bill’s latest project. Don’t think about starting an incubator until you have real operating experience otherwise you don’t really have anything to offer startups. His first “real&# business came in college where he designed audio speakers. Shopping.com. Insider Pages.

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Competition Idealab Product CitySearch 350

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

If you look at the structure of the travel industry above – of course we know that the hotel industry is fragmented while the airline industry is reasonable consolidated. But I’m investing on the assumption you will be successful, of course. The top 5 players combined control less than 25% of the market.

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Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions.

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Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Picture the graphic designer, the IT expert, or the independent accountant or attorney. Of course, discovering your entrepreneur type is only the beginning. Overall, I see real value in using this methodology in conjunction with incubators, business accelerators, and mentoring. We all know many good ones here.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Mingle is a networking service that uses location to discover and create relevant connections.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2010

This post is designed mostly for non-technical founders. I know this will fall like a lead balloon to the many people who believe it is possible to have a [insert: startup incubator or technology accelerator or technology consultant or outsource firm] build your technology. Of course I’m generalizing. But barely.

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CTO Hire Fractional VPE Startup Outsource Development 400

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

In terms of entrepreneurship, what has attracted me is social entrepreneurship: building and designing products that benefit society and have a positive impact in the world. Once that’s completed we’ll look at our options – most likely reach out to Angel Investors and Incubator programs. We are getting there.

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Startup Ideas Platform Entrepreneur 101

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

With all games designed and developed in house, they also work with companies and campaigns to develop specific trivia game applications. Their presentation ended in a quick trivia round about science, a category which (of course), the techy audience chose. Bill received his B.S.

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Technical Review Idealab Startup Mobile 94

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

New companies are being raised and incubated to help build LA’s tech scene. Of course each person has their own different body types and the percentages will change. Testing and designing the app was difficult as well. Nothing felt greater than finishing a product you wanted to design and release. Greatest achievement?

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Startup Training Examples Help 97

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

” She is redefining how business is taught and using her personal online platform apart from a designated channel platform to do so. Maker Studios sees the value of lifestyle and fashion channels which may be why they were considered number 1 network on YouTube during last summer’s SBF. ” Collaboration was also key.

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Hollywood Screening Ideas Entertainment 100

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

Back then we invested very little in design. We invested a lot more in design and user interaction by trying to really simplify the experience for whoever visits Miigle, whether member or non-member. How much has the product changed from where it was in 2012 and where it is today? We were just trying to test our concept.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

He currently works for Founders Fund and coordinates FF Angel LLC, a seed-stage investment program; as well as fbFund REV, a micro-seed incubator program for Facebook-related startups. Essayist, programmer, and programming language designer. Dave McClure is a Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur, startup investor, and blogger. Paul Grahm.

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Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Betaworks is more than an incubator, but they have shown that they can make the incubation model work with projects like bit.ly Good Design = Beautiful/Cool Design. and chartbeat. It’s simple.

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Frank Addante

MAY 24, 2007

The phrase "crossing the Rubicon" has come to represent the moment when people commit themselves to a risky and revolutionary course of action. I quickly came to realize that Im not the "slow-growth" guy, Im not the kind of guy that can do things part-time (as in the incubator model).

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Advertising Startup Venture Capital Outsource Development 40

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

– Digital Messaging Infrastructure Company (incubated by Addante and Associates, LLC) Age: 25 - 29 (present) Time Period: 2002 - present My Role: Founder High Point: TBD Here is a summary of my experiences to-date with StrongMail: 1. Incubation 3. Blogger Template originally design by Web-Kreation Converted By Jacky Supit

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