Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Clean, safe and reliable natural gas company Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) has established $1 million innovation fund in partnership with Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) , to speed the development of clean technologies to meet current global energy needs and become a sustainable energy source.

Incubator 80

Incubator Los Angeles Southern California Funding 80

socalTECH

MAY 15, 2013

According to the company, its Series A financing will go towards expanding its team, meeting customer demand, and scaling for growth. Airware is led by Jonathan Downey.

Google 174

Google Downey Incubator Technology 174

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy Stubblefield: We actually started out of an incubator, based out of Beverly Hills. We were working on a bunch of different projects when we first started at the incubator. What enabled you to get that first customer on board? We were really focused on customer acquisition. How did the company start?

Marina Del Rey 113

Marina Del Rey Software Review Startup Incubator 113

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

Steve Blank via Flickr by jdlasica I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point. Nail the solution.

Startup 98

Startup Technical Review Custom Customer 98

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 21, 2014

We’ve had an explosion of alternate sources of financing from crowd-sourcing, angels, accelerators, incubators, corporates, corporate incubators. It’s when the noise stops and you can actually get customer attention, press articles and VC meetings. And importantly we’ve had revenue. ROI studies were published.

Marketing 354

Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

TechCrunch LA

MAY 19, 2018

In startup-land, however, the presumptions about where housing demand is going looks a bit different. And housing shortages in major cities indicate there’s plenty of demand for non-Airbnb options. About two-thirds of new homes being built in the U.S. Collectively, those three companies have raised about $300 million to date.

Startup 272

Startup Los Angeles Demand Social Network 272

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2022

Success in any business these days requires a constant flow of new and innovative solutions, to keep up with changes in the market, competition, and to attract new customers. In fact, people lower in the organization are often closer to the customer and have more insight into what works and what doesn’t.

Ideas 111

Ideas Framework Summary Organization 111

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

I think, now more than ever, Flippy meets the distinct challenges and can help our customers spur new growth. I had been seed investing and incubating businesses, and was sitting with a friend of mine, John Miller, who ran Caliburger, which is a 35 location burger chain, which is exporting the California lifestyle, much like In-N-Out does.

Startup 113

Startup Venture Capital Capital Custom 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2014

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point. Nail the solution. Nail the go-to-market strategy.

Entrepreneur 113

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Custom 113

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

Makerspaces are becoming the new incubators and accelerators for startups, and support contacts, including lawyers and marketing groups, will be easy to find. Meeting the new consumer demand for customization. Customers today increasingly demand solutions that are customized just for them.

Ideas 61

Ideas Outsource Development Startup Education 61

socalTECH

MAY 8, 2015

In a world awash with on-demand startups, Los Angeles-based Serviz (www.serviz.com) stands out--not because of the market segment it is tackling, but because it was founded by two, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Zorik Gordon and Michael Kline. Zorik Gordon: We incubated this at ReachLocal, and spun it out in February of last year.

Services 100

Services ReachLocal Demand Startup 100

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

Makerspaces are becoming the new incubators and accelerators for startups, and support contacts, like lawyers and marketing groups, will be easy to find. Meet the new consumer demand for customization. Customers today increasingly demand solutions that are customized just for them.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Tool Design Demand 98

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2017

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point. Nail the solution. Nail the go-to-market strategy.

Startup 64

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Custom 64

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point. Nail the solution. Nail the go-to-market strategy.

Startup 118

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Custom 118

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

ChowNow came out of incubator LaunchPad LA. ChowNow offers restaurants a suite of customized branded interactive apps to make online ordering a snap. ChowNow also offers snazzy tablets that digitally track to-go orders, automatically email customers their order info and wait times, while building a customer database.

GRP Partners 73

GRP Partners Email Incubator Platform 73

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Success in any business these days requires a constant flow of new and innovative solutions, to keep up with changes in the market, competition, and to attract new customers. In fact, people lower in the organization are often closer to the customer, and have more insight into what works and what doesn’t.

Ideas 94

Ideas Framework Summary Organization 94

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. Rinse & repeat. It seemed to be purely speculative. I was a victim of this kind of thinking.

Development Team Review 374

Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

I see more and more entrepreneurs who seem to have everything going for them – vision, motivation, passion, even a good business plan, product, and money, and yet they can’t close customers. Great businesses begin with a customer problem that has a big and monetizable pain point. Nail the solution. Nail the go-to-market strategy.

Startup 114

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Custom 114

socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Jonathan Neddenriep: So, the core of what we've built in Postie, is a machine learning stack that ingests who your current customers are, and figures out who across every household in the United States is most likely to become a customer based on that data. I understand both of you came out of Science Inc, the startup studio/incubator?

CTO Hire 100

CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

You also asked about our labs, and we have been fortunate to be part of the UCLA Incubator, which you may know houses the California Nanosystems Institute. So this would have been a lot more difficult if those labs weren't available to you as a company in the incubator? So those resources have been fantastic.

Startup 100

Startup Southern California UCLA Incubator 100

socalTECH

MAY 22, 2009

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Not only that, but you'll connect with a nationwide community of BizSpark Network Partners, including incubators and investors. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com). Helping entrepreneurs succeed. Startups Made Simple.

SoCalTech 100

SoCalTech Southern California Rustic Canyon IP 100

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

After a year in the market, MakeSpace was growing rapidly and our biggest issue was CAC (customer acquisition costs) relative to payback period (when we get our marketing investment back) and relative to LTV (lifetime value). We need to market to that customer to make them aware of our product or service. Choose that market.

Startup 150

Startup Marketing Study SEO 150

socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

However, in the last ten years-- especially with the power grid--regulatory agencies have started to demand that those systems be able to be monitored for compliance. Paul Myer: Veracity was originally part of Frost Data Capital, as part of their incubator. We've now exited the incubator and actually have an office at Microsemi.

Networking 124

Networking Startup Incubator Orange County 124

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 16, 2012

A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Lean startup.

Entrepreneur 101

Entrepreneur Startup Seed Funding Incubator 101

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2013

As the demands and supplies grew for advertising, we built a stable capital to create Engage:BDR. To progress and be LA tech-focused, we started incubating ideas. It is to produce branded content, to build custom content and leverage our ad network to distribute the content. How much did Engage:BDR grow?

Marketing 96

Marketing Startup Incubator Advertising 96

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 1, 2011

Recently I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M. Lean startup.

Startup 92

Startup Funding Seed Funding Incubator 92

Tech.Co

JANUARY 4, 2018

For many founders, getting noticed by investors, potential customers, incubators and other companies, is a necessity to take your product to the next level. If you love making custom herbal remedies at home, then Altopa has a gadget for you. Meet the Startups. Altopa (Seattle, WA). Robomart (Santa Clara, CA).

Startup 70

Startup High Tech Product Design 70

LATechDigest

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Cornerstone on Demand brought together the area’s best & brightest for its fourth annual LA Tech Summit , once again hosted at the Fairmont. LACIncubator is now the largest clean tech incubator in the world, we're working to make it cheap & easy to launch a biz #latechsummit pic.twitter.com/5GbAI1D3bR.

Snapchat 40

Snapchat Lootcrate Riot Games Downey 40

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Success in any business these days requires a constant flow of new and innovative solutions, to keep up with changes in the market, competition, and to attract new customers. In fact, people lower in the organization are often closer to the customer, and have more insight into what works and what doesn’t.

Ideas 56

Ideas Framework Summary Organization 56

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2016

There are so many startups, and a great demand for talent as a result of this. As many Latin American companies lack trust in other companies they demand same-day payment, which can result in large transfer fees. EUROPE: In Paris incubators and government subsidies support startups. We work with U.S. air travel passengers.

Technical Review 40

Technical Review Startup Incubator Media 40

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 22, 2014

The other problem with extreme success is that for some VCs it makes them disinterested in middling outcomes, things that take a long time to incubate or solving thorny problems when a company doesn’t immediately move up and to the right. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. EQ and Team Leadership? Nail on the head.

Venture Capital 364

Venture Capital Coach Writing SaaS 364

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Hank: I am the CEO and founder of Seco Sys, which is a platform that allows water agencies, customers, and water related services to concurrently engage in water conservation at all water use endpoints. Hank McCarrick, CEO and founder of Seco Sys. Can you tell us more about your company. Our platform can be used worldwide.

Startup 105

Startup Technical Review Patents Services 105

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Hank: I am the CEO and founder of Seco Sys , which is a platform that allows water agencies, customers, and water related services to concurrently engage in water conservation at all water use endpoints. Hank McCarrick, CEO and founder of Seco Sys. Can you tell us more about your company. Our platform can be used worldwide.

Startup 119

Startup Technical Review Patents Services 119

socalTECH

APRIL 10, 2012

The startup incubator actually found us. That's just an example I pulled out of the air, but we think we'll be more responsive to our customers than a traditional airline. We don't peak and valley with demand. I'm excited to apply those skills in a new way. We understand you have a relationship with Muckerlab?

Startup 240

Startup Mentor Technical Review Santa Barbara 240

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Here’s why that is important: when users are on your website you want to convert them to become paying customers. It’s true that the carrier then gets their huge slice for being the billing and payment engine but the idea is that you as a website more than make up for this in terms of customer conversion.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Stop Listening to Your Customers. A common assumption among startup entrepreneurs is that listening to potential customers is the best. Entrepreneurism / Monetization Customers, research, startups. . How to (Ethically) Profit From Your Customer's Insecurities.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

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. StrongMail Systems, Inc. Relaxing 2. Go-to-Market 5. Spam Changes Everything 6.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40