socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Los Angeles-based digital marketing agency Wpromote said on Monday that it has launched a new set of scholsrships, which will go to students interested in digital marketing. According to Wpromote, the new scholarships--which will be awarded bi-annually--will total $3,000, with the first award in December of this year.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. We also have live lab sessions, which we run through Google+ Hangouts, which mirror the school education experience. It's a hands-on kind of education. What's your background?

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. Wander is one-such service providing high speed wireless internet in Los Angeles. Sick of your ISP?

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

People say we’re crazy, but we know creators are legit businesses,” Karat writes on its website — the company didn’t respond to a request to chat about what they’re working on. Podfund , for example, writes checks sized between $25,000 to $50,000 to emerging podcasters. Now, everyone wants to become an influencer.”.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

15desks.com), a new startup focused on the education market. Baghdasarian was co-founder of Monterey Networks, which was sold to Cisco Systems back in 1999, has been an active angel investor in Southern California. If you can imagine, you can have your entire educational life online. First of all, what is 15desks?

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Attending his speaking events is not only educational and useful to your business but it has often been described as very comical and entertaining. As a treat to Angelinos, this coming weekend October 13th and 14th, Reiss is flying to Los Angeles from Copenhagen, Denmark and will be conducting two limited seating seminars in Culver City.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 16, 2013

Article after article points out that Los Angeles is on its way to becoming one of the most robust startup communities in the United States. About General Assembly: Back in October 2012, General Assembly arrived in Los Angeles. Guest article by Eva Hibnick with General Assembly LA.

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Rustic Canyon Startup Los Angeles Class 74

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

In my discussions with Korean friends they tell me that there is big pressure in Korea to work for large companies like Samsung over startups (this is similar to what I experienced in Japan) and that the more educated and hard working ones family was the more pressure to join a prestigious firm rather than starting a company or joining a startup.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 27, 2014

In the Los Angeles startup world, there are lots of high profile, buzzy companies which have lots of attention and funding--but which haven''t earned a dime of revenue. We started looking at the landscape, and as I was getting my MBA at the time, ended up writing the business plan for ConsumerTrack.

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socalTECH

MAY 5, 2010

Yossi, who is co-chairing the upcoming Israel Conference (www.theisraelconference.org) here in Los Angeles next month, recently sat down with us to talk about entrepreneurship, why Israel has been able to become such a center of high tech--and what Southern California might be able to learn from the Israeli culture.

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Tech.Co

MAY 9, 2017

I saw so many different applications for virtual reality in education, entertainment, mental health and communication,” he said. We started traveling to Sundance and SXSW and these shows with awesome companies, but no one was writing about it,” Taylor said. Education became a large facet within the space and focus for Taylor.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

By spending more time educating your board on your business you get more valuable advice from them. In addition to helping manage the board Chris also helps represent the interests of the angel investors / common stock holders. He is very pleasant when he calls and writes. ” His argument is as follows. Rob does it.

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Tips Email Venture Capital CTO Coach 365

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. ” Many people on the Westside of Los Angeles are using the term Silicon Beach these days to describe the amazing renaissance that is truly happening here. Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Crazy, huh?

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Technical Review Startup High Tech Software Review 282

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2018

Many people will write the history on why Ring became an enormously successful company and why it became a real-world unicorn in a world when many startups are anointed that merely on paper. Jamie Siminoff is not only one of the single best true entrepreneurs in Los Angeles, he’s amongst the best we’ve worked with in the country.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

We're always interested in how technology is influencing the business of Hollywood, and recently ran across Los Angeles-based Scripped. to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers.

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2011

One of the firms which has been active in that area is Los Angeles-based CauseCast (www.causecast.com), run by Ryan Scott , who talked us about the company's relationship with the Huffington Post, its new efforts to provide its technology to companies interested in corporate social responsibility, and other initiatives.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. The team has experience in building startups (Doug Ludlow was formerly a founder in a TechStars company) and have all worked at local Los Angeles based startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Currently offers 3mm books to over 5,000 higher education institutions in the US. Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Targeting SMB’s (small & medium businesses).

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Well, Los Angeles-based KarmaGoat (www.karmagoat.com) has figured out a way to help people get rid of those unwanted items they have--and provide those proceeds to charity. When I was moving to Los Angeles from Paris, I was sorting through my stuff, and I made three bags of things. Where did the idea come from?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. When was it launched and where?

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Web USC Course Guide 93

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

Occasionally on this blog I break away from industry commentary and write more broadly. One of my big disappointments at GRP has been our office space in Los Angeles. A few years ago I started a mentorship organization in Los Angeles called Launchpad LA now run by the uber talented Sam Teller. Launchpad LA.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2018

For this morning's interview, we sat down with Marlon Nichols , co-founder and Managing Partner of Los Angeles-based Cross Culture Ventures (crossculturevc.com). It gives them a formal education on the fundamentals of that world, and is also opening up and helping them to build a network through experiences at venture firms.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Here are the Stars of #140conf: Los Angeles: Aaron Ray (@redbaron1200s) - Partner & Head of Digital, The Collective. Bruce Sallan (@BruceSallan) - I'm a former showbiz guy who writes a dad's column. Carlos R (@CarlosHernandez) - Social media educator & co-creator of Social Media for the Uncomfortable.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 20, 2014

TechZulu recently sat down with east coast transplant Olenka Polak to talk about startup life in Los Angeles. We will need to keep on figuring out how to educate our consumer. I’d write to my professors and say “I’m so sorry, I have this meeting or I had this phone call that I had to take.”. Skip classes.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 2, 2014

A family that doesn’t write down their instructions or their assets doesn’t make things easy, especially when the spouse that took care of things dies. This lets us offer not only solutions, but it also lets us educate. The problems that families are facing now do not start with technology, they’ve gone on for centuries.

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