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. A Biden presidency doesn’t need a Green New Deal to make progress on climate change.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2015

San Diego-based MicroPower Technologies , which develops wireless video surveillance hardware, has rolled out a new product. Pricing on the new product was not announced. MicroPower says its new product can send live video up to a half mile away. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 9, 2021

Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing. Don’t forget business writing and communication. Get real experience early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2022

With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. m are not for crowdfunding, but actually are matchmaking sites between entrepreneurs and professional investors or banks, or incubators. Product pre-order model. Marty Zwilling.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? Mark Evans, VP of Engineering & Co-founder at NetPlenish (a 500 Startups funded company) NetPlenish is price comparison meets automatic replenishment for the things you buy over and over again.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2022

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Join a startup incubator. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? Mark Evans, VP of Engineering & Co-founder at NetPlenish (a 500 Startups funded company) NetPlenish is price comparison meets automatic replenishment for the things you buy over and over again.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2020

With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. are not for crowdfunding, but actually are matchmaking sites between entrepreneurs and professional investors or banks, or incubators. Product pre-order model. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 30, 2019

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capitalists) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Join a startup incubator. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing. Don’t forget business writing and communication. Get real experience early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Seed-stage, meanwhil e, is technically that critical period when you need funding to do solution- and business-model development, to prove that your new product or service works, before you try to sell it to customers. These funders often offer convertible notes, rather than the traditional priced equity. Business accelerator funding.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Ventura-based NetPlenish , a startup which is developing a service which will provide automated replenishment of items, combined with an automatic price comparison engine, has quietly raised funding from 500 Startups. Size of the investment was not disclosed. The service is similar to Amazon's "Subscribe and Save" feature.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing. Don’t forget business writing and communication. Get real experience early.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Join a startup incubator. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself. Commit to a major customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Join a startup incubator. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself. Commit to a major customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. Most universities have formal incubator and business development organizations that focus on coaching, grant writing and technology licensing. Don’t forget business writing and communication. Get real experience early.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

DreamHost has a successful track record of incubating technologies in-house and then releasing them to the broader market. The release of Linux in 1991 led to a resurgence of Open Sourcing that was embraced by a new generation of software developers aiming to disrupt the legacy, proprietary software market.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The problem is that professional investors (Angels and Venture Capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than the more risky research and development efforts. Join a startup incubator. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself. Commit to a major customer.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2018

The problem is that professional investors (angels and venture capital) want a proven business model before they invest, ready to scale, rather than early projections and product development. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

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socalTECH

MAY 1, 2019

Pretty much the only thing that has changed is the price, and they're charging more. At one point at LegalZoom, I stepped away from day-to-day duties, and spent some time developing real estate. Here's something else that might be interesting to people here, is everyone know there are a lot of technology incubators out there.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

We then allow you to use the print cloud, where we develop, print, and mail pieces very easily. I understand both of you came out of Science Inc, the startup studio/incubator? We build on those audiences, and find others that look alike. We've taken all of the logistics and headache out of defining a campaign for our customers.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

I've been engaged in about thirty startups, anywhere from in incubators, being an angel investor, to leading the charge. As a result, I had great visibility into what I would call the developing sea change in the traditional fashion supply chain. Hautelook disintermediated the off-price part of the segment. What is value?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 6, 2013

The successes Engage:BDR has right now, helps highlight LA as a city for tech companies to develop and grow. 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. How much did Engage:BDR grow?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

He eventually applied his lessons learned in these experiences when he founded Zag, a company that helps consumers buy cars over the Internet at pre-negotiated prices with nearly 4,000 dealers across the country [disclosure: my firm GRP Partners is an investor in Zag]. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

So when Sam Rosen came to me with the idea of disrupting storage with a product that is priced cheaper than existing incumbents and he could build a product that is a better service I was intrigued. What price will your customer ultimately accept? The US market is worth more than $25 billion and Europe is the same. But you should.

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socalTECH

MARCH 4, 2021

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. How did you go from running a venture fund to starting Miso? We have big plans fro Flippy.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

Unfortunately, those providers decided the gold leads were expensive, and decided to use a Chinese vendor which would provide them at half price. This is really also funded because of Mike and my other project, the 101 incubator. So imagine, they''d just pfft and kill the guy. How are you funding this project? We expect to win.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 28, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 7:01 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 8:30 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 6:56 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 14, 2016

—Cancer drug developer Accelerated Pharma, based in Westport, CT, outlined terms for a $17 million IPO. —AzurRx Biopharma (NASDAQ: AZRX ), which has an executive office at SUNY Downstate’s biotech incubator in Brooklyn, raised $5.3 The stock price was down 10 percent as of Thursday’s close. million in an IPO.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

A couple of things I should add - Greg didnt mention the technical challenges they had (scalable complex matching algorithm) and the issues they had with an initial developer. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Posted byTony Karrer at 8:14 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

I then became and EIR at UC San Diego, and joined EvoNexus, the not-for-profit incubator run by the Irvine Company. The risk-taking culture is fantastic, and the ecosystem is super-well developed. It has reached a point where there really is a price to be paid for being here. It's a phenomenal place. It's a great place.

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