socalTECH

JULY 29, 2010

We've dug through our database of high tech companies, web sites, and startups and found four Southern California companies and web sites looking to cater to that adventure traveler in you. . AdventureLink is backed by Allegis Capital, Anthem Ventures, and the Mailroom Fund, and is run by adventurer Jeff Dossett.

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Sites Southern California Technical Review Allegis 153

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Need office or Tech Space? Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Yarnell Design (www.masonyarnell.com/tech). Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. Think Glendale.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

A quick message on a very busy funding day, to thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Need office or Tech Space? Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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Orange County Southern California IP Glendale 113

socalTECH

JANUARY 5, 2015

Over the last couple of weeks, we''ve featured a number of reflections on the year from movers and shakers in the local high tech community. We are thankful for continued support from Demand Media, City National Bank, Richardson Patel, Business Wire, Sheppard Mullin, General Assembly, and others.

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Cornerstone OnDemand Belkin Entertainment Newsletter 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 It is different.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2013

Every early-stage startup should explore this new funding alternative. VCs are finding that they don’t need the “large” funds of $100M to $500M to support a portfolio, if they focus on early-stage startups. These Angels typically don’t demand board seats, and are not as heavy-handed as VCs. Rose funding Mike Maples'

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Angel Entrepreneur Venture Capital Startup 92

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2013

“Scope creep” (or feature creep) is an insidious disease that kills more good startups than any other, especially high-tech ones, and yet most founders (who may be the cause) never even see it happening. The market changes, executives learn new things, customers demand changes, and technology changes. Marty Zwilling.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review High Tech 110

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 23, 2013

There is so much written these days about how to attract investors that most entrepreneurs “assume” they need funding, and don’t even consider a plan for “bootstrapping,” or self-financing their startup. If you don’t have the personal funds to make these happen, investors might be your only option. You need specialized equipment.

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Startup Entrepreneur Technical Review Equity 100

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

There is so much written these days about how to attract investors that most entrepreneurs “assume” they need funding, and don’t even consider a plan for “bootstrapping,” or self-financing their startup. If you don’t have the personal funds to make these happen, investors might be your only option. You need specialized equipment.

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Technical Review Startup Equity Entrepreneur 95

socalTECH

APRIL 12, 2011

Derek Norton is head of Los Angeles-based Watertower Group (www.watertowergroup.com), a firm which helps companies raise funding, one of the rare companies which has a track record and good reputation helping companies with fundraising, and also runs its own investment fund. Derek Norton: I'm a fourth generation Angeleno.

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Riot Games Technology Los Angeles Entrepreneur 199

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2013

The buzz from startup executives, especially high-tech ones, has long been that startups are no place for Baby-Boomers (1946-1964) – you must have the high energy and crazy determination to work 20-hour days to succeed. They have the maturity and sophistication to deal with your demanding executives and partners.

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Startup Mentor Demand High Tech 98

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

There is so much written these days about how to attract investors that most entrepreneurs “assume” they need funding, and don’t even consider a plan for “bootstrapping,” or self-financing their startup. If you don’t have the personal funds to make these happen, investors might be your only option. You need specialized equipment.

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Entrepreneur Technical Review Startup Equity 102

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2010

We can help you organize video on demand and pay-per-view offerings. How is the company funded? Patrick Kennedy: We've had fantastic funding from a venture capital firm called Mobile Media Ventures. They have hundreds of millions of dollars deployed against energy and digital and high tech investments.

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Content Screening Mobile Customer 189

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Taking other people’s money to fund your startup changes your life in ways you cannot predict. At the very least (or perhaps it’s the very best), they ask me how to get ready for funding. Demands on your time. By Francine Hardaway, Ph.D. And many of those ways are negative. I meet with dozens of entrepreneurs a week.

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Outsource Development High Tech Outsource Startup 93

socalTECH

MAY 14, 2010

The demand for our products and services is really high, unemployment is high, the need for new technology is high, as is the need to increase efficiency from businesses. Matthe Jenusaitis: I'd like to see another half dozen or more startups, because the multiplier effect for high tech startups is 3:1 in terms of jobs.

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OCTANE Orange County Technical Review Southern California 174

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

One of the most frequent questions from high tech startups is: where''s my exit? I think that the market was, however, hotter two years ago, when companies were buying more aggressively, and there was lots of pent-up demand. There''s tons of activity, and lots of companies getting funded.

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Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

That's a fifty percent increase, and there's no space that's elastic and on-demand as us. It seems like there are quite a number of high tech clients using your space? Jerome Chang: An example: we have a four person production firm, which moved into our space in July, but found that had to increase to six people soon after.

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Startup Web 2.0 Tsavo Userplane 100

AeA Los Angeles Council

JULY 22, 2008

Across the globe, politicians are concerned about high security, accuracy and privacy demands. Understanding that we could save billions of dollars by transmitting all Medicare prescriptions electronically is one thing, implementing it is another.

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Web 2.0 Web AeA Journal 40

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

So I agreed to offer my current thinking on the economy and what it portends for the VC industry & fund raising for entrepreneurs. I heard an entrepreneur last Friday tell me that after he appeared on AngelList he had a funding frenzy with one investor whom he had never met offering to fund him after just 15 minutes on the phone.

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Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298