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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

In recent months, a dozen accelerators and incubators have emerged in the Southern California area, looking to help take the new generation of technology startups to funding and beyond. which programs are--and aren't--worth looking at has become very difficult, if not impossible, for startup entrepreneurs. Funding: Yes.

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MARCH 5, 2012

If you use the mentor-driven model that we pioneered at TechStars, you get entrepreneurs who are deeply connected with the broader entrepreneurial landscape. ” Brad went on to address the issue of a diluted entrepreneur talent pool and its potential impact on the efficacy of new accelerators. I think it’s a huge positive.

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. I think mobile payments and online education will finally hit their stride in 2013 benefiting companies like Braintree and Dwolla and Coursera respectively.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

university, the California Institute of Technology has received a massive, $750M pledge from entrepreneurs Stewart and Lynda Resnick, to go to environmental sustainability research. Part of the funds will go towards the construction of a new, 75,000-square-foot building which will be named the Resnick Sustainability Resource Center.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Once we get that strength profile, we match them to a whole world of extracurricular and educational opportunities for them. We take those strengths, as determined by our Neuropsychologists, to develop strength profiles and apply them to describing all of ht extracurricular and educational opportunities that we can curate. READ MORE>>.

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OCTOBER 25, 2012

Tracy tells us how she bootstrapped her business by renting out both her bedrooms and sleeping on the couch--funding the startup via Airbnb--and is now scaling out the business with a new round of venture capital. I've really gotten an in-depth education about what women want when buying and selling online. I didn't have any funding.

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

Los Angeles-based BiasSync (www.biassync.com) was founded by three, very experienced serial entrepreneurs-- Michele Ruiz (broadcast journalism), Robin Richards (CareerArc, Internships.com, NTI Group, MP3), and Dan Gould (former VP of Technology for Tinder). It's education, measurement, analysis, and ongoing mitigation strategy.

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MAY 2, 2013

Despite a growing technology industry here in Southern California, local investors and entrepreneurs tell us there''s still a shortage of local, venture capital. In particular, funding for companies developing deep technology--software and cloud, as opposed to content and media--seems to be lacking. How did the new fund come about?

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DECEMBER 27, 2011

Fundageek looks to help connect project owners in the technical and scientific area with finding crowd funding for their projects, by listings those projects on a marketplace and allowing users to browse and pledge donations to those projects.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Zareh Baghdasarian: 15desks is all about managing your educational lifestyle, all the way from early education to your graduate work. If you can imagine, you can have your entire educational life online. Zareh Baghdasarian is the CEO of 15desks (www.15desks.com),

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

In a bid to change that, there are a few groups working on helping women entrepreneurs, investors, and others, including the Pipeline Fellowship (www.pipelinefellowship.com), which recently launched itself into the Los Angeles market. My participation has been on the impact investing and education side, where I''ve been involved as a mentor.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

The industry has been amazing in developing standards about how to communicate between a car and charger and how to handshake between them for safety, so we end up explaining that and doing a fair amount of education to let people know about that. Those are typically things you hear from entrepreneurs, because they are so tru.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

How are you funded? Jon Grishpul: We've been around for the last year, and we've been completely self funded. That's probably our biggest issue now, which is educating consumers and homeowners about all of the different issues in home renovation, and helping them to understand those issues. Jon Grishpul: That's good question.

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JUNE 8, 2020

in a funding round led by Octopus Ventures, and also which also included Experian Ventures, Cherry Tree Investments, Dig Ventures, Mucker Capital, Unlock Venture Partners, TechStars and Wavemaker Partners. Moving forward, this recent funding is going towards creating more personalization around that text experience. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

There's a big disconnect between their education and employment. We raised a bunch of money, and funded training programs for underserved communities for entry level jobs, which would lead to careers in the entertainment industry. People fall out of their education for a number of different reasons.

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JANUARY 29, 2019

Los Angeles-based HeyTutor , an online marketplace for finding tutors, has raised $1M in its Series A funding, the company announced on Tuesday, from Santa Barbara-based ScOp Venture Capital, the venture investment firm led by serial entrepreneur and investor Kevin O'Connor.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

Andy Wen was the CTO of Christianity.com, and the CTO of early online education firm VCampus, and he also ran the product and web security for eTrade, as well as started a company called Lighthound deals, like a Groupon. We're excited about launching and getting funding, and trying to get traction in Los Angeles.

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AUGUST 20, 2018

Nichols is a former Kauffman Fellow and investment director at Intel Capital, and tells us how his fund--which he co-founded with Atom Factory's Troy Carter--is looking to find companies solving large problems outside of the typical Silicon Valley bubble. How did the fund get started? I led a number of investments for that company.

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JUNE 2, 2014

Last month, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti created a new program, aimed at growing, assisting and sustaining entrepreneurs in Los Angeles. The new "Entrepreneur-in-Residence" program has appointed its first, two, EIRs--Krisztina "Z" Holly and Amir Tehrani.--both It''s pretty exciting. It''s just an incredibly lean machine.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2012

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. We're fortunate we've been able to fund that from SocialEngine.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

The two of us really wanted to be entrepreneurs. It''s a highly educated, English speaking workforce, and they love working for American companies. We were really stubborn entrepreneurs, and worked at it for three years, because we were really determined to make it work. Bryce Maddock: We have had no outside funding until now.

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APRIL 26, 2017

Do you think the sales focus has been valuable to you as an entrepreneur? Eugene Cho: I think for most entrepreneurs, you think first on how you are going to develop a product. Explain what's special about Echo's microscopes, and what's your background? Eugene Cho: We have developed the first and only hybrid microscope. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

Our annual conferencefocused on educating our community on growing valuable tech enterprises-- set a record with over 500 attendees and our best attendee feedback to date. I continue to be surprised by some clever SoCal entrepreneurs who are creating out-of-the box companies that are opportunistic and reflect our markets ingenuity.

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JANUARY 31, 2011

The new effort also will direct $2B in guarantee authority over the next five years to match private sector investment funding through the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program. That effort is aimed at spurring entrepreneurship and funding for startups.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Last week, Santa Monica-based Revolution Prep announced its first, institutional round of funding, worth $15M, from Kennet Partners. It was us, funding ourselves from credit cards, literally, to a company that is now on par with Kaplan and Princeton Review. How did you manage the growth you have, without outside funding?

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Our interview this morning with an entrepreneur is with Anthony Citrano , the founder of Los Angeles-based Acquicent (www.acquicent.com), a startup which wants to make it as easy for you to invest in museum-grade collectibles such as classic cars and art, without having to invest millions of dollars in those assets. It's my money.

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JANUARY 18, 2019

The industry has been amazing in developing standards about how to communicate between a car and charger and how to handshake between them for safety, so we end up explaining that and doing a fair amount of education to let people know about that. Those are typically things you hear from entrepreneurs, because they are so true.

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APRIL 26, 2017

Do you think the sales focus has been valuable to you as an entrepreneur? Eugene Cho: I think for most entrepreneurs, you think first on how you are going to develop a product. Explain what's special about Echo's microscopes, and what's your background? Eugene Cho: We have developed the first and only hybrid microscope. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

As the markets went down, just like any other investor, they were very conscious of investing more carefully--but, that said, it also meant that there seemed to be more entrepreneurs, for various reasons, were newly interested in starting companies. What should startups be doing to get funding nowadays, versus a more normal year?

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OCTOBER 10, 2014

LinkedIn has a network of over 300 million professionals, who tend to be highly educated and ambitious, and this really can help you find like minded people, and create a community of them that is complimentary to what''s already there. Max Fischer: We''re in the process of fundraising right now, to fund our future growth and marketing.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

In 1999, I was involved with GE Financial, launching a broker platform, so that they could self-score and autodoc their funding deals. That's the joy of being an entrepreneur. Being an entrepreneur, working for a company like this is rewarding and exciting. How are you funded? How did the company start?

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JUNE 11, 2013

This second annual fest brings together technology leaders, startup CEOs, investors, Hollywood studio executives, entrepreneurs, developers, students and more to celebrate LA’s dynamic technology industries with panels, workshops, hackathon, mixers, and a start-up showcase spotlighting 40 local startups. In 2012 over $3.2 Media Partners.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

To solve that issue, Mike, as well as a number of other entrepreneurs here in Southern California, is in the midst of organizing Students4Startups (www.students4startups.com), a group which hopes to connect graduating students in the area to local startup companies. I'm actually an industrial engineer by education.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2017

We caught up with Max to hear about the company, which just announced a $3M angel funding round last week. I was scratching my head, because I didn't understand why I was getting denied, because I had a good income, education, and a bank account for over ten years. Tell us a bit about your funding and investors? What is Float?

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APRIL 9, 2020

It's an unusual time for the startup world, however, despite the ongoing health emergency, companies are still announcing funding. Guy Friedman: I'm a startup guy, I had a previous startup in the educational technology space. Did you close the funding before the pandemic hit? Tell me how you started the company?

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NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Anne Fulton: I've always been an organizational psychologist crossed with a serial entrepreneur. I can't help myself in being an entrepreneur. It was really a meeting of the minds with the fund. The education around new products and bringing them to the market is the same in both markets. This is like my fifth business.

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MAY 18, 2009

And, haven't some folks been trying to educate people about the market for awhile? We have some very good competitors--EchoSign and DocuSign are the two bigs ones, and are both venture funded--who have spent a lot of money educating the market. I've been an entrepreneur for many years. and the E.U.,

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