Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Our Director of Flow, Heather Burlesci will be attending these courses as she is looking to build up her skills in this area. Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. I of course agreed to get involved. Of course not, but I wish I could. A great trade! Gone are the days of 3.4

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Our Director of Flow, Heather Burlesci will be attending these courses as she is looking to build up her skills in this area. Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. I of course agreed to get involved. A great trade! The day before, I meet @bizmike (Michael Lewis), CEO of Suite Arrival.

Social Network 180

Social Network Networking Yahoo Social Media 180

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Of course they pretend that they are trying to avoid alerting competitors prior to launch, but too often it becomes an excuse to move slowly in a world that’s all about getting to market fast. Here are seven ways this can actually help your startup efforts, rather than hurt them: Initiate media interest. Find your real competitors.

Entrepreneur 101

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 31, 2011

Of course they pretend that they are trying to avoid alerting competitors prior to launch, but too often it becomes an excuse to move slowly in a world that’s all about getting to market fast. Here are six ways this can actually help your startup efforts, rather than hurt them: Initiate media interest. Find your real competitors.

Startup 101

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. The first phase was the rise of the media platforms: YouTube, Instagram, etcetera, that allowed creatives to build audiences. With new followers — today her account, @weworewhat , has 2.2

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is.

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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

APRIL 30, 2014

It was a finalist in Marshall ’s New Venture Seed Competition and it has earned a place within IncubatriX, a startup Incubator through USC’s Grief School of Entrepreneurship, which currently houses over a dozen USC startups. With the ability to import images from social media, HipTraveler creates a shareable, searchable itinerary.

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socalTECH

JUNE 10, 2015

We have aerospace, we have medical technology, and of course we have media communications. It's not just media, and not just fashion as you might think, although they are the big gorillas in the room. Lots of startups here have tried to incubate a startup culture. That ends up being a small piece of the puzzle.

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Steve Reich

OCTOBER 9, 2012

There are days when I feel like we’ve gotten a bit carried away with social media. Two million consumers have downloaded the SBS golf app that includes a rangefinder (using the GPS chip in your phone), course maps, scoring, and more. But what about sharing those experiences with golfing buddies who are not on the course with you?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2010

Of course they pretend that they are trying to avoid alerting competitors prior to launch, but too often it becomes an excuse to move slowly in a world that’s all about getting to market fast. Here are some of the ways this can actually help your startup efforts, rather than hurt them: Initiate media interest. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

It takes more than passion and a course on business basics. There is no standard course for this, but the answers are accessible online, if you know how to search, follow blogs, and interact with the relevant social media groups. I want to tell them to just start anywhere, but I realize that most have no idea where anywhere is.

Entrepreneur 58

Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 58

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Of course, that’s both the good news and the bad news for aspiring entrepreneurs, since it means more competition, and the business landscape is changing faster than ever. Establishing your brand with interactive social media. The cost of social media done well is low. Angel groups, accelerators, and incubators are pervasive.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

The mobile app and website that allows people to capture and share images and videos of events through social media. The cool thing is we were not only taught about film and TV, but also about new media. One of our teachers was teaching new media and it was really inspiring. TechZulu: So where did WESAWIT originate from?

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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!

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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. You may have paid marketing: SEM, Social Media Ads, Banner Ads, email lists, etc.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies. What were those and how is that changing now given how things are changing in social media? How did you do that?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Bitcoin has had a rough start to the year (to say the least) – with a never-ending news feed consisting of massive bankruptcy , scandal stories, and car chase media fiascos. To comment on the rocky state of Bitcoin affairs in the last 30 days, does Dan believe we’re past the worst of a media firestorm? The ultimate plan?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Peter Csathy – CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures, accomplished media and digital media entrepreneur. Richard Wolpert – Managing Director of Amplify.LA, startup incubator and Venture Advisor at Accel Partners. The company hopes to prepare advertisers for varying screen sizes.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

It’s been a short, but action packed few months since we were introduced to The Immunity Project ‘s goal to “develop a free vaccine for HIV/AIDS” The organization’s aptly named Twitter handle is @hackHIV and they’re the second nonprofit organization ever to be backed by Bay Area Incubator, Y-Combinator (YC).

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

With a room full of investors, founders, media, and tech enthusiasts; and a hilariously dramatic orchestral soundtrack that would show up from time to time (Cal Tech Symphony practice happening on the first floor), there was definitely a strong air of excitement through our different stages of the evening.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

And of course, one day, the Blackberry dies and erases everything. We text, email, share, and post these quick to consume pieces of media. Something interesting I had seen with my younger cousins who grew up in the midst of social media (versus the rest of us who saw it develop). .” The notepad was my idea bank.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

New companies are being raised and incubated to help build LA’s tech scene. Since you are using social media, how does this help “motivate” your friends? Of course each person has their own different body types and the percentages will change. I say, give LA another 5-10 years to become a major player in the tech scene.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

By handpicking and curating playlists of high quality how-to media, LessonPaths offers concrete pathways to learning any skill, activity, or academic subject for even the most novice lifestyle learners. Getting accepted into the Kaplan/Techstars program was of course, huge for them. Visit the following links to learn more!

Startup 99

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Top CEO’s, entrepreneurs, technology gurus, venture capitalists and executives will be looking at the tech ecosystem from different perspectives, including e-commerce, enterprise software, digital media and consumer technologies.” Online content isn’t a small market, nor is it going away anytime soon.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Founder and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment, the visionary multimedia venture spanning movies, TV, sports, and new media, Peter Guber is among the most successful executives in the entertainment and communications industries. Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies. . startups.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. And of course the funding problem coincided with the stock market correction that took away most exit options for years to come. So of course returns from 2000-2010 were subpar on average for the industry. The Exit Problem. Today’s Normalization.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Of course I have. Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. Every region needs its local media & events. And of course you need a mature venture capital industry. This article originally ran on TechCrunch.

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