SoCal CTO

JANUARY 2, 2013

Then we discussed how they could go about finding this startup business advisor. Then I got an email that asked: I'm leading the marketing efforts for an early-stage startup. They will also be concerned about how this leads to their next role. Here’s a little secret about finding mentors — nobody has time to mentor you.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Email readers, continue here.] Would you, as an investor, plow money into the plan and help to incubate the idea into a real enterprise? Other times, the entrepreneur went on to assemble a great team and execute the plan as it inevitably changed again and again. I would not, nor would most all of those I co-invest with.

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socalTECH

JUNE 14, 2018

We caught up with Oded Vakrat , CEO and co-founder of Earny, to learn more about the service and his startup journey. We're talking about two different policies, under the same name of price protection and price matching. We've measured that it takes about 45 minutes to submit for a price adjustment claim. What's Earny?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2011

To start off the year, we are publishing our first interview for the season with Jamie Siminoff , the CEO of Los Angeles-based Unsubscribe.com , an online service which helps you unsubscribe from unwanted newsletters and email lists. I had been doing some angel investing, and incubating several projects. We raised $2.1M

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Berkonomics

MARCH 24, 2016

Dave’s note: This week we welcome guest author, David Friedman, to tell us about his favorite startup CEO, and his take after interviewing her – asking for her list of attributes for startup success. . Kirsten is the founder of ChickLabs , an incubator that focuses on helping primarily women entrepreneurs. Culture Maven.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

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. But wait, does that make Launchpad LA an incubator now? There are at least 6 incubators now being set up in LA.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. You can go to virtually any city in the world and meet a local who will tell you about their city. One of the founders wrote a Python script that sent out custom emails to a list they had developed.

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

Paul sat down with us last week to talk about industrial networks, network security, and why suddenly those systems--used for manufacturing, the power grid, oil and gas, and other key infrastructure--need their own security tools. Paul Myer: Veracity was originally part of Frost Data Capital, as part of their incubator.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

The best person I know to talk about the growing entrepreneurship culture on campuses is Alex Zhang, a student at USC and the Managing Director of the student-run incubator LavaLab. Zhang shares his thoughts about Los Angeles, incubator programs, and more. What is LavaLab/what is the vision?

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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. Here is an excerpt from an email I wrote to a student who asked me if she should drop out of school to run her business fulltime because she was anxious "to do great things.".

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Well, aside from it showing discipline and intelligence – we always get flooded with emails when we recruit and when you have to manage volume you need to go for obvious filters. Wait a second, what’s this CAA logo all about? He told me he was planning on recruiting somebody for a similar role and I asked about his spec.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 8, 2012

For those of you who may have missed out you can checkout what Mediapost and D&B had to say about it: TZ Tech Crawl Takes Participants on a Tour of Silicon Beach. It’s like a bar crawl, but with startup/Accelerator/Incubator offices instead of bars. 2012 TechZulu Tech Crawl – Technically Awesome. When: August 30, 2012 6-11pm.

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socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

What is unique about our mobile app, is you can send a physical gift without actually having a physical address to send it to. All you need is a mobile number or email address, and when you send a Giftagram, they get a notification and a unique landing page, where they can enter their preferred delivery address.

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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. However Gmail is only private email conversations. We have about 8500 customers there, but only a small percentage have built great communities that took off, and the rest floundered.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 23, 2012

For those of you who may have missed out you can checkout what Mediapost and D&B had to say about it: TZ Tech Crawl Takes Participants on a Tour of Silicon Beach. It’s like a bar crawl, but with startup/Accelerator/Incubator offices instead of bars. 2012 TechZulu Tech Crawl – Technically Awesome. Be Part of the Crawl!

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

For those of you who may have missed out you can checkout what Mediapost and D&B had to say about it: TZ Tech Crawl Takes Participants on a Tour of Silicon Beach. It’s like a bar crawl, but with startup/Accelerator/Incubator offices instead of bars. 2012 TechZulu Tech Crawl – Technically Awesome. When: October 4, 2012 6-11pm.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 8, 2013

Maybe it could work for someone, but I don’t personally know of any examples in which a young company was able to whip up investor interest through a cold email. First think about what stage your company is in. Consider Incubators. But for new entrepreneurs, a good incubator program can be a great option.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2012

A few days ago, Wallaby ([link] the latest startup out of Los Angeles technology incubator MuckerLab unveiled itself, to solve just that problem. We spoke with founder Matthew Goldman about the startup. That really helped me understand a lot about payments. What is Wallaby? We went through our major growth when I was there.

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InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Thus, an aspiring venture investor has about the same numerical chance of becoming a professional baseball player as they do becoming a VC professional. An effective way to associate yourself with high-caliber members of your startup community is to lend your gratis support to a venture accelerator or incubator. Share and Enjoy.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

To make it easier to explain, we come from a part of the world where there's been email, display, retargeting, programmatic, and social advertising, which allows us to heavily leverage data, testing, and optimize real time results, so marketers can make good, informed decisions. in funding in that round, which closed about a year ago.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

The USC Entrepreneur Club and the Kairos Society brought Howard Marks , a successful entrepreneur and founder and CEO of StartEngine , on campus to speak about his past experiences. For example, he explained a situation where his company could not meet payroll the next day and was about to go out of business. The Journey.

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socalTECH

MARCH 15, 2016

It's all about the apparel industry. I want to say I was all for the girls code movement, but it was just about changing Vanna White's dress! We actually have partnered with a group here in LA, Manufacture LA, the LA fashion incubator. It's about getting respect, finding those factories who cater to indie designers.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2015

There are many organizations which cater to entrepreneurs, including The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and local startup incubators. Use LinkedIn to check for a fit, and craft personal resume emails and letters to make your case. Now it’s time to make a decision about working for a startup. Hang out where entrepreneurs meet.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

Kind of like a disarrayed choose your own adventure book about your life. We discuss productivity, emails, communication, and the dynamics of the team. He goes on to explain that these companies assume their average user will be someone who is detailed about organizing their notes. “Problem is, people are lazy.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

However, for us, it''s more about empowering the local florist. The florist business center we launched recently empowers florists, with tools to run email marketing campaigns, reach out through social media, and even gives them a point of sale system and website builder. They have to pay for placement.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

We spoke with Costin Tuculescu , CEO of Freebinar, about the firm, how it's reaching out to Dimdim users, and the background on the company. People are used to the idea to check their email when their attention dozes off, or do other things. The firm was incubated with the founder's own cash--the other founder is my father.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2014

There are many organizations which cater to entrepreneurs, including The Indus Entrepreneurs (TiE) and local startup incubators. Use LinkedIn to check for a fit, and craft personal resume emails and letters to make your case. Now it’s time to make a decision about working for a startup. Hang out where entrepreneurs meet.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

If so, you're probably familiar with the travails of having to find a kennel to place your dog into, are constantly worrying about how your dog is doing in that kennel, and probably are feeling a little guilty, too, about having them locked up all week while you are away. We spoke to Aaron about the company.

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socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

If so, you're probably familiar with the travails of having to find a kennel to place your dog into, are constantly worrying about how your dog is doing in that kennel, and probably are feeling a little guilty, too, about having them locked up all week while you are away. We spoke to Aaron about the company.

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Technical Review Startup Sites Malibu 160

Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

In this article #StartupsEverywhere , I talked with Joe Wallace, CEO and Chief Innovation Officer of the Coachella Valley Economic Partnership, and Hank McCarrick, CEO and founder of Seco Sys about sustainability, emerging eco tech, and challenges in the ecosystem. Can you tell us more about your company.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

For instance, whenever someone at your venture saves your company money, send a company-wide email acknowledging their accomplishment. Although some of these emails will highlight relatively small savings, these communications will serve as a reminder that every member of the team should remain alert to identify money saving opportunities.

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

If you’re not even spending any time thinking about what your market could be you’re simply being lazy and unprepared. For all of the talk about Salesforce.com controlling the CRM market I’m told they still have less than 20% market share. Let me be very direct. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses.

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

Those first six months were about. I am very meticulous about my reputation. In addition to changing the company''s name to Big Frame and taking on accomplished Co-Founder Steve Raymond, Sarah also received assistance from the startup incubator LaunchPad LA. I started cold calling. That, to me, feels like success.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them. Where LinkedIn Works for Me A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive About this Blog Southern California Tech Central Southern California Tech Central Loading. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

You also might enjoy hearing him talk about his background – including the fact that he was actually the executive assistant for Condoleezza Rice during one of the more historic and controversial periods of time in recent history! On the show I’ll I could get him to talk about was his travels on Air Force One.

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Last week Howard announced he has formed Start Engine, an incubator located in Westwood and focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. Community Sponsors. It happens every day.

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