socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2014

It was a lesson relearned: it''s all about execution. As an educator, I am looking forward to innovations in online learning. gerhard apfelthaler education incubator' Within a few months, it has become a vibrant space where founders, investors, students and our faculty members meet and co-create. READ MORE>>.

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Xconomy

JULY 5, 2016

People who live outside of Indiana probably know a few things about it: The Indianapolis 500, a.k.a. But people might not know much about Indiana’s economy and its culture of innovation. Here are three things you probably didn’t know about the Hoosier State: 1. billion in exports during the 12 months ended Sept.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Today's contribution is from Lawrence Ng , serial entrepreneur who, last year, founded OnRamp Fund , a $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups. Lawrence Ng: Our biggest news was growing our global incubator, OnRamp. The partnership will bring about the first mass-market consumer application of AR drone piloting.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ).

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The first two years of the program focused on education & mentorship. There were regular events where experts talked about: fund raising, term sheets, constructing a team, product development, establishing biz dev partners, M&A, dealing with the press, etc. This education will continue. Each company will receive $50,000.

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InfoChachkie

MARCH 5, 2012

Although sports purists would no doubt quibble about the impact expansion has had on professional sports, most fans agree that the overall talent level has remained relatively constant, despite the significant increase in the number of professional athletes. Since 1961, professional baseball has grown from 18-teams to 30.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. Entrepreneurship is more about pulling all the elements together, making change happen and building relationships. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

If you have the urge to be an entrepreneur, I encourage you to think seriously about each of these, before you zero-in on one or two, and get totally discouraged if those don’t work for you. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. Marty Zwilling

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

If you have the urge to be an entrepreneur, I encourage you to think seriously about each of these, before you zero-in on one or two, and get totally discouraged if those don’t work for you. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. Marty Zwilling.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2016

However, what about Kwame Brown and Eddy Curry? I must admit, I furthered this anti-college narrative with a provocative article about college dropout successes. Learning To Learn - A sound college education includes gaining the insights into applying logic, researching data and assessing the veracity information.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. Entrepreneurship is more about pulling all the elements together, making change happen and building relationships. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school.

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Entrepreneur Tips Writing Coach 98

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Some people even believe that entrepreneurs must be born with the right genes, and no element of education is relevant. Entrepreneurship is more about pulling all the elements together, making change happen and building relationships. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school.

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Writing Coach Incubator Entrepreneur 111

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

With the rise in startup activity around the country, more local organizations are emerging to help provide resources, training, education, and funding to support underserved communities and their dreams to build a business. It’s not just about the diversity, it’s about do they feel included. [We Photo by: Dave Seibert.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ).

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Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 112

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

I’m sure all of you have friends who are not happy in their employee roles, and are not shy about complaining, but never seem to get around to doing anything about it. They can cite all the myths about being too old to change, not having the money, or no business degree. Most successful startups spring from local incubators.

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Startup Entrepreneur Incubator Guide 72

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area. We have about 8500 customers there, but only a small percentage have built great communities that took off, and the rest floundered. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value.

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InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

Venture Hacks is educating entrepreneurs on the game theory of how to raise venture capital. We are not taking the incubator approach…we would invest on the same terms alongside the other investors and we would make sure to be a very, very small piece of the round and not to crowd out anybody.”. AngelList is the productization of that.

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socalTECH

APRIL 4, 2013

We spoke with co-founder Brenton Sullivan about the company''s platform, and how it''s hoping to transform the athletic recruiting process. We''ve been wildly successful in helping junior college players find four year schools, and helping high school athletes get offers to colleges they''d never known about otherwise.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Water Pigeon co-founder Sarp Sekeroglu got the most votes in a survey conducted immediately after six startups incubating at EvoNexus gave short presentations. EvoNexus operates as a free incubator (with “no strings attached”) for tech startups at three facilities in San Diego and Orange County. was founded as Catalyst eClinical.).

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 14, 2014

Much has been written about social entrepreneurship; ventures in which an explicit goal is the betterment of society. ABC has even created an incubator-style program in which startup non-profits compete for $100,000 in seed funding. My pleasure John, thank you for helping us spread the word about our program.

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Influencers and creators are small businesses and if you think about all the things that small businesses need these days to succeed, they will be repurposed for the influencer marketing space.”. People in the industry need a place to go and figure it out, to talk about it and learn about it.”. focused fund.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 21, 2018

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ).

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 9, 2015

The TechCrunch team was judicious in its determination of qualifiers, insisting that the accelerators be, “fixed-term, cohort-based, with educational and mentorship components, culminating in a public pitch or demo day.” Bringing an accelerators’ graduates back as mentors provides value to the next class, certainly. Share and Enjoy.

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InfoChachkie

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

I began by asking Adeo about the inspiration for The Funded. Once The Funded was firmly established and effectively keeping venture capitalists (relatively) in check, Adeo turned his attention toward educating emerging entrepreneurs. At the time, there were about 25,000 technology businesses started every year. like your firm.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

We all come from the era where our society and education prepared us for the labor market, meaning working for someone else as an information professional, factory worker, or retail associate. We know now that people learn from a younger age, and keep coming back for more, from sources that are entertaining and educational ( edutainment ).

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Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 58

socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2016

We spoke with Brendon McQueen , founder and CEO of Tuition.IO, to hear more about the company. is all about? There are 42 million Americans who have these loans, which total to about 1.3 I eventually ended up here in 2012, where the company came out of an incubator here called Launchpad LA. Tuition.IO billion dollars.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Unfortunately, health systems—and the education of people who work within health systems—are not designed to capitalize on the insights of their employees, she said. We need to be humble about where strong reliance on hierarchy has landed healthcare.”. There have been a few failed companies and there is one currently incubating.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

If you have the urge to be an entrepreneur, I encourage you to think seriously about each of these, before you zero-in on one or two, and get totally discouraged if those don’t work for you. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

If you have the urge to be an entrepreneur, I encourage you to think seriously about each of these, before you zero-in on one or two, and get totally discouraged if those don’t work for you. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements. Marty Zwilling.

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Funding Startup Equity Examples 107

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. It’s been many years since I’ve properly cut code and my former teammates love to tease me and talk about my mean days of COBOL, DB2 and CICS. What about strategy?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

We spoke with two of the founder of K5Launch, Amir Banifatemi and Kai Tao, to learn more about their efforts to start up its accelerator here. Are there specific kinds of companies you're hoping to see in the incubator? What is K5Launch? That's a business model and concept we need to change.

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Orange County Southern California Startup Class 192

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 2, 2011

We need to take some risks in education and in innovation in this country so anybody that it trying to break through the traditional mold and try to create a new model ought to be lauded, not attacked. And think about it – is it really that radical? Suddenly everybody wants to be an incubator. It’s about exploration.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 24, 2010

Every university has educational courses and can provide assistance on creating your initial plan. Don’t look here for venture capital levels of funding, but certainly early-stage government grants, incubators, and entrepreneurship incentives are available from endowments and state funds. I’m betting that you can do the same.

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Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Lisha works tirelessly to build a platform of advocacy around issues such as tech inclusion, diversity, and education. Thomas Flake, Founder of PTI Incubator & Founder of bcause. Siggi is passionate about changing the pipeline for female and minority founders, and co-leads an ever-expanding network of Women in Enterprise.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

If you have the urge to be an entrepreneur, I encourage you to think seriously about each of these, before you zero-in on one or two, and get totally discouraged if those don’t work for you. Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Variations on this theme include early licensing or white-labeling agreements.

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Startup Entrepreneur Funding Equity 113

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

It’s about as close as you can get to a macro-level crystal ball for the tech industry, expressed through a rapidfire string of insights from the minds of some of tech’s biggest investors, founders, and gamechangers. Richard Wolpert – Managing Director of Amplify.LA, startup incubator and Venture Advisor at Accel Partners.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2013

Its mission is to connect, educate and promote online innovators that are coming out of L.A.’s And you know, there companies I have never heard of that did a $7 million dollar round I would have never known about if it wasn’t for Built In L.A.,” that has quietly soft launched this January. Built In L.A. has to offer startups.

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