Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Over the course of the first few months I saw a few people out on the street taking Birds and then a steady uptick in riders. Ah, but Bird doesn’t have network effects! There is nothing viral! Anybody can launch a scooter service! Not really. This allowed Bird to then raise $300 million from some of the top VCs in the country.

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Santa Monica Funding Startup Course 256

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Of course that’s not disputable. To some extent – of course they are. Of course most of you know SnapChat, Tinder & Whisper and many people immediately associate the success of Los Angeles under the SoLoMo banner (Social, Local, Mobile) and you wouldn’t be wrong. acquired Overture for $1.63 Yes, Google won.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2013

One that they would want to attend that was hip, fun, had great speakers and promoted networking. Talent needs often range from engineers, UX/UI designers, biz dev, marketing/pr, project managers and community managers. It will be held on the beach of course, at the Annenberg Beach House. What can you expect?

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Startup UCLA Los Angeles SpaceX 76

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

LavaLab is USC’s first product design incubator program run for students by students. Each semester, we admit an incoming class with some of USC’s most ambitious, talented, and diverse entrepreneurs to allow them to form teams and build products through the course of our program. What is LavaLab/what is the vision? It’s a typical “Aha!”

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Incubator Southern California LAVA Los Angeles 40