TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 24, 2019

It’s another indicator that the Los Angeles technology ecosystem is coming of age, but also a sign that March’s core investment strategies — to invest in companies applying artificial intelligence to business use cases and investing in the next wave transforming computing infrastructure — are paying off.

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Artificial Inteligence Capital Los Angeles Incubator 225

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

The sweeping infrastructure package put forward today by President Joe Biden comes with a price tag of roughly $2 trillion (and hefty tax hikes) but gives startups and the broader tech industry about $1 trillion worth of reasons to support it. ” Climate resiliency . Given the steady drumbeat of climate disasters that hit the U.S.

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Startup Technical Review Invest Research 229

socalTECH

MAY 15, 2013

A new, Newport Beach-based startup, Airware , has raised $10.7M According to the company, its Series A financing will go towards expanding its team, meeting customer demand, and scaling for growth. Looking to build your own unmanned aerial vehicle? Airware is led by Jonathan Downey. READ MORE>>.

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Google Downey Incubator Technology 174

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

Some entrepreneurs start polling venture capitalists for that multi-million dollar investment before they even have a business plan. It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined some time ago from a funding perspective. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. Growth and exit stage.

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Organization Startup Incubator Ideas 93

Berkonomics

JANUARY 17, 2019

If you discover and become convinced that your vision is flawed, or the product impossible to create within cost and time expectations, or the demand impossible to quantify, or revenues never close to plan, then it would certainly be time to rethink the plan and product. Could you pivot to save the company?

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 17, 2019

If you discover and become convinced that your vision is flawed, or the product impossible to create within cost and time expectations, or the demand impossible to quantify, or revenues never close to plan, then it would certainly be time to rethink the plan and product. Could you pivot to save the company?

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Incubator Venture Capital Invest Capital 120

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.

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Incubator Los Angeles Southern California Funding 80

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2019

I found their five phases of the process to be compelling, based on my own years of experience mentoring startups: Nail the pain. Neither breakthrough technology nor maximum features will assure that “if we build it, they will come.” Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

What’s your role in the Coachella Valley area startup ecosystem? The iHub is a California state initiative that selected six locations in the state to serve as specific technology development hubs. Wherever water is consumed we can ensure that it is used efficiently through our technology.

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Startup Technical Review Patents Services 119

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

I found their five phases of the process to be compelling, based on my own years of experience mentoring startups: Nail the pain. Neither breakthrough technology nor maximum features will assure that “if we build it, they will come.” Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right.

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Technical Review Customer Custom Entrepreneur 143

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

What’s your role in the Coachella Valley area startup ecosystem? The iHub is a California state initiative that selected six locations in the state to serve as specific technology development hubs. Wherever water is consumed we can ensure that it is used efficiently through our technology.

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Startup Technical Review Patents Services 105

Tech.Co

JANUARY 4, 2018

It doesn’t matter if you start a company in a coworking space, a dorm room or on your couch, the struggle to build a tech business in this day and age is real. For many founders, getting noticed by investors, potential customers, incubators and other companies, is a necessity to take your product to the next level. Meet the Startups.

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Startup High Tech Product Design 70

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Some entrepreneurs start polling venture capitalists for that multi-million dollar investment before they even have a business plan. It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined some time ago from a funding perspective. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. Growth and exit stage.

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Funding Startup Organization Incubator 94

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. For what ever reason we’re wired to have amnesia during the run up and prescient memories of how we ‘knew it all along’ as soon as the slide begins.

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Marketing Case Study Metrics Sales 354

socalTECH

JANUARY 31, 2013

It was standing room only at StartEngine 's Demo Day Wednesday afternoon, held at Santa Monica's Cross Campus , as the startup accelerator launched eight of its latest startups into the world, after a 90 day process of mentoring, honing their business model, and heads down development. Standing room only crowd at StartEngine).

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

In the startup world, one of the most difficult journeys to market is by companies who are taking basic scientific advances and technologies originally developed at universities, and taking them all the way to use in the commercial world. So explain where you are now with the taking your technology to market?

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Startup Southern California UCLA Incubator 100

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd catch up with two of the co-founders of Marina Del Rey-based Telesign (www.telesign.com), Ryan Disraeli and Stacy Stubblefield. How did the company start? Stacy Stubblefield: We actually started out of an incubator, based out of Beverly Hills. What were you doing before?

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Marina Del Rey Software Review Startup Incubator 113

socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

It runs our proprietary technology, and it's a platform that people can plug into. How did you go from running a venture fund to starting Miso? So, with the last funds out of my fund, I started Miso Robotics. Crowdfunding allows everyday people the opportunity to help transform technology, and be part of that transformation.

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Startup Venture Capital Capital Customer 113

socalTECH

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Venice-based Amplify LA (www.amplify.la) is celebrating its fifth anniversary as a startup accelerator here in the Los Angeles area � one of the few in the area to have survived in more or less original form after the launch of a number of startup incubators and accelerators five years ago.

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Startup Entrepreneur Funding Incubator 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2012

Some entrepreneurs start polling venture capitalists for that multi-million dollar investment before they even have a business plan. It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined before from a funding perspective. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. Early or embryonic stage.

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Resource Startup Organization Incubator 94

Berkonomics

JANUARY 12, 2012

And if the vision of the entrepreneur is flawed, or the product impossible to create within cost and time expectations, or the demand impossible to quantify, or revenues never close to plan, then it is time to rethink the plan and product. That return proved to be the best investment return any of us saw in the several years that followed.).

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Incubator Venture Capital Invest Entrepreneur 149

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2014

I found their five phases of the process to be compelling, based on my own years of experience mentoring startups: Nail the pain. Neither breakthrough technology nor maximum features will assure that “if we build it, they will come.” Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right.

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Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Customer 113

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 30, 2011

I’m a very big proponent of the “lean startup movement&# as espoused by Steve Blank & Eric Ries. In the late 90′s I saw a dangerous trend creeping into the startup world, which was that companies were suddenly raising huge amounts of money too early in their existence. This post originally appeared on TechCrunch.

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Development Team Review Technical Review Startup Resource 374

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2013

Some entrepreneurs start polling venture capitalists for that multi-million dollar investment before they even have a business plan. It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined before from a funding perspective. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. Early or embryonic stage.

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Entrepreneur Funding Incubator Startup 102

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 12, 2017

I found their five phases of the process to be compelling, based on my own years of experience mentoring startups: Nail the pain. Neither breakthrough technology nor maximum features will assure that “if we build it, they will come.” Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right.

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Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Customer 64

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 13, 2011

Some entrepreneurs start polling venture capitalists for that multi-million dollar investment before they even have a business plan. It’s helpful to think of startups as proceeding through several stages, which I have defined before from a funding perspective. Don’t waste your resources on the wrong ones. Early or embryonic stage.

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Startup Organization Incubator Ideas 92

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2012

I found their five phases of the process to be compelling, based on my own years of experience mentoring startups: Nail the pain. Neither breakthrough technology nor maximum features will assure that “if we build it, they will come.” Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right.

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Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Customer 118

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Be Great Partners , a Los Angeles technology incubator, has recently released a report on the startup community in LA and the information shows a positive growth for startups here in LA. Los Angeles is 3 rd in the global startup ecosystem, behind Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley. With Yahoo!,

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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. Our vision is really to become the premier provider of on-demand home services.

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Services ReachLocal Demand Startup 100

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This movement, coupled with free websites and apps, makes it possible for almost any technical person to start a business. This technology is not only spawning a new generation of entrepreneurs, but is also changing the educational landscape, all the way down to early grade school. Meeting the new consumer demand for customization.

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Ideas Outsource Development Startup Education 61

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2013

TechZulu: Tell me about yourself and how Engage:BDR started? Ted Dhanik: I started my career in Silicon Valley in the 90s. I started a business with two others and we started buying and reselling ad inventory from wholesale prices to retail. To progress and be LA tech-focused, we started incubating ideas.

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Marketing Startup Incubator Advertising 96

socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

Paul Myer: Veracity Industrial Networks is a startup in the industrial network security segment. Industrial networking is a new category for me, personally, and I only started here two years ago. That's what we call OT, or Operational Technology. How did the company start working on this area? Thanks for the time today.

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Networking Startup Incubator Orange County 124

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

I found their five phases of the process to be compelling, based on my own years of experience mentoring startups: Nail the pain. Neither breakthrough technology nor maximum features will assure that “if we build it, they will come.” Success demands testing the solution early and quickly in the market, then iterating to get it right.

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Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Customer 114

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2016

140,000 new startup companies are reportedly launched every day. But new startup communities who benefit from governmental subsidies and an ecosystem that promotes growth and sharing, are now viable alternatives. I spoke to startup founders from new emerging locations across the globe. We operate outside of our key markets (U.S.,

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Technical Review Startup Incubator Media 40

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

We caught up with co-founder and CEO Han Chen to better understand what the company is working on, and some of the complexity of getting their technology to market. Our population is going to increase significantly, and we have thirty years to increase plant productivity in order to meet demand, or the world could face starvation.

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Research Technology Examples San Diego 124

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2012

It turns you, you can actually do that, with Burner , a new iPhone app developed by Los Angeles startup Ad Hoc Labs. We caught up with serial entrepreneur Greg Cohn , who brought us up to speed on what Burner is about, and the story behind the app. Let's talk first about your app. Can you describe what it does and how it works?

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Yahoo Startup Mobile Ideas 200

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Los Angeles-based Tilofy (www.tilofy.com)--out of USC''s Viterbi Startup Garage--is doing just that, helping to highlight what is going on around you, by absorbing all of that location data out there at any particular time and place. We spoke with Ali Khoshgozaran , founder and CEO of the company, to learn more about the startup.

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