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APRIL 8, 2014

We''re making investments, and are based in Santa Monica, and although we have a small team, we''re looking forward to becoming part of the local scene here in Silicon Beach. My background, is I''ve been designing and developing accessories for the top carriers in the country, companies like Sprint and Verizon, as well as others.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Previously we had to bring companies from all around the world to our 8 week accelerator program in Santa Monica and we were restricted by having to use local investors, trainers and mentors to keep our startups occupied. Brian Mac Mahon is a serial entrepreneur and investor and has owned companies in over 35 countries.

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socalTECH

APRIL 7, 2011

Many local entrepreneurs might know Todd Jerry , formerly a venture capitalist at Anthem Venture Partners. We're unique in that we are a design and build firm, we do both architecture as well as construction. What was the project in Santa Monica about? It's a truly interesting product. We were established in 1989.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 13, 2013

Like most startup entrepreneurs, when I began my first company in 1999 I had no formal sales experience. It’s what I call “ the evangelical phase ” of a company in which you’re out trying to persuade customers that a product you’ve designed is going to meet their needs better than other solutions on the market.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2016

We spoke with co-founder Ryan Costello about Santa Monica-based Event Farm (www.eventfarm.com), on how its software technology is being used to power high end, VIP events for large companies. We're in Santa Monica, and sometime people think we're a venue or rental space for events, but what we are, is a 100 percent software company.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

We caught up with Sam Teller , who is directing efforts at the accelerator, to help fill entrepreneurs in on where the program fits in the world of technology and startup acceleration. Sam Teller: Launchpad is an accelerator in Santa Monica. It was really just something built for the community to help support entrepreneurs.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2013

However, Santa Monica-based Dreamhammer (www.dreamhammer.com) has a different vision of the world, where entire fleets of aerial drones and robotics surface vehicles can all operate off a single, interoperable operating system--much like you get multiple smartphones running on Android today, or computers on the same OS.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 2, 2013

Whether you were a startup, an investor, a blogger, a fashionista, or someone just curious about what is happening in Santa Monica aka “Silicon Beach,” the recent Silicon Beach Fest had something for everyone which included panels, parties and more. 4 P’s of Success. You need passion to keep going.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 12, 2015

a few blocks shy of Santa Monica, is the Westside’s new coworking studio called Hatch. Built around the idea of convergence between creativity, serenity and design, the boutique studio launched in April 2015 to serve as gathering spot for freelancers, tech types and entertainment folks to get out the house and into their projects.

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Jason Nazar

APRIL 4, 2011

I’ll be interviewing different team members of Docstoc to talk about the specific tips and advice on topics such as Product Management & Design, Web Development, BizDev, Content Creation, and much more. This month’s event will be held at the Milken Institute in Santa Monica by the 3rd street promenade.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2012

more--or you can go online and use Fine Art America (www.fineartamerica.com), a Santa Monica company which is doing. photographer and live here in Santa Monica, you can take an image of the Santa Monica Pier. If someone loves your image of the Santa. all of that for more than a 100,000 members.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

In the bay area it’s quite common for the entrepreneurs starting a company to be developers or technologists who can build the first versions of their products. He just pounded out design and code for a few weeks and got Plancast up on the web and users adopting his product right away.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The idea is simple enough: several female VC partners at top funds will hold 1-hour meetings with 40 promising female entrepreneurs looking to get advice on their business and pitch in a friendly, non-judgmental, safe environment. My response was swift, “No!

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The Santa Monica based startup accelerator, is inviting Los Angeles tech entrepreneurs for an evening of discussion highlighted by a panel of startup founders that have received funding from leading accelerators and incubators on Thursday, Nov. 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA).

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2012

Santa Monica-based Fundable (www.fundable.com) is a newly launched, crowdfunding site which is headed by local entrepreneur Wil Shroter. Because we want to get into production, marketing, and sales, right now we're listing on Fundable.com. Tell us about your project? Why turn to crowdfunding and Fundable for this?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2011

A couple of weeks ago, Santa Monica-based Parking In Motion , a developer of parking information apps for mobile devices, announced a new round of funding, from IDG Ventures and Fontinalis Partners, the venture arm of William Clay Ford, Jr., the great grandson of Henry Ford. We sat down to talk with Sam Friedman , CEO of the company.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S. In the past, Dinesh served as President of Skyy Consulting Inc.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Follow PandoDaily: Search.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 12, 2014

Silicon Beach Fest is LA’s original festival celebrating LA tech, entertainment & startups with panels, keynotes, workshops, mixers, and more in Santa Monica. Business Entrepreneurship Events Silicon Beach Fest Digital LA Entertainment Entrepreneurs Hollywood Startups Technology' Register for a 5-6?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

The Santa Monica based startup accelerator, is inviting Los Angeles tech entrepreneurs for an evening of discussion highlighted by a panel of startup founders that have received funding from leading accelerators and incubators on Thursday, Nov. 10th from 7pm to 9pm at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium (SMCA).

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Incubator Santa Monica Idealab Social Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition to the 330+ students, entrepreneurs and investors in attendance, the event also achieved over 45,000 views on the TechZulu live stream. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Parking In Motion (PIM) is a provider of dynamic and real-time parking data.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

socalTECH

MAY 25, 2016

Santa Monica-based March Capital Partners (www.marchcp.com) has just announced a brand new, $240M venture investment fund, led by longtime venture investing veterans Jim Armstrong, Sumant Mandal, Gregory Milken and Jamie Montgomery. Enterprises are under a lot of pressure to produce great product under fast cycles.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Community Sponsors.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

It gives music companies a direct pipeline to market their products and services to music fans. CODA Automotive is a privately held company headquartered in Santa Monica, California that designs, manufactures and sells electric vehicles and lithium-ion battery systems purpose-built for transportation and utility applications.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S. Navy, Pfizer, & Unisys Corp.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

We want to provide our audience with not only amazing presenting startups/newly released products (submissions still open Apply Here ) but also outstanding people that can help you grow as an entrepreneur and lead a successful business. CallFire.com is a small company with fewer than 20 employees located in beautiful Santa Monica.

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Tsavo Idealab Tech Coast Angels Userplane 76

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2011

This particular evening, we attended the LeanLA meet-up located at Coloft, a swank professional co-op/work space in the heart of Santa Monica, known as the epicenter of the LA startup scene. These tidbits of advice certainly fell on attentive ears as we know entrepreneurs generally take real world examples and experiences to heart.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2011

Please join TechZulu as well as Los Angeles tech savvy elite comprised of VC’s, Angels investors, startups and your fellow entrepreneurs, as we celebrate LA’s most exciting tech creations of the moment with the brightest digital minds and engineering talents this side of Fresno. To inspire and facilitate personal and cultural growth.

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CalTech Idealab Tech Coast Angels Enterprise Forum 79

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

There are now a second generation of entrepreneurs and companies that have learned from their last successes and are producing great new companies like TopSpin Media , Sometrics and GumGum. My favorite Rogers line was, “musicians of the future will be entrepreneurs and not employees [of labels].”

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition to the 330+ students, entrepreneurs and investors in attendance, the event also achieved over 45,000 views on the TechZulu live stream. It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Parking In Motion (PIM) is a provider of dynamic and real-time parking data.

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Last month, Santa Monica-based ThisNext announced that it was acquiring Stylehive, an online site focused on fashion and beauty. How we do so, is we help consumers discover new products and shop for them. Traditionally, that has been products in fashion/beauty, home/garden, sports/outdoors, and parenting and green.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Tonight starting at 7:00pm PST we will be streaming and bringing you all the action live from Cross Campus in Santa Monica. Event Details: Where : Cross Campus 820 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90401. Scot has been an entrepreneur and executive responsible for the launch of several interactive entertainment ventures.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Always looking to provide the very best for our community so that you may learn and grow as a startup or entrepreneur, Bill Gross is one of the best experts we could provide. A lifelong entrepreneur, Bill started several companies prior to Idealab. which made a natural language product for Lotus 1-2-3 called HAL.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. And no one could see me as anything but a startup guy, so I started a second company and called myself a serial entrepreneur.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

Everything happens in the browser (no software to download) and the finished product looks amazing on large screens! He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. Leftronic is a real-time data visualization platform for startups. SuperDemo: Bill Gross.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Friday evening, August 19th, rolled around and Startup Weekend LA was underway with attendees showing up at Coloft in Santa Monica around 6:00 pm and the classic Idealab keg there to quench everyone’s thirst. Guests, visitors and teams mingled away enjoying appetizers and snacks along with this LASW’s 3rd keg. Rob Maigret.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did. A move to more urban environments (SF over SV, Cambridge over Waltham, London over Thames Valley, Santa Monica / Venice, Flatiron and so forth) as basically young people want to live where young people want to live.

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