SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

Friday, September 26, 2008 -- "Rising Above the Gathering Storm in the OC: A Business Incubation Network helping move OC Start-up Companies Forward" UC Irvine Office of Technology Alliances. Email tanyaz@uci.edu. This lunch features speakers who will share their experiences and advice on starting companies.

Incubator 100

Incubator Startup Email Research 100

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. They did it entirely through social networking. One of the founders wrote a Python script that sent out custom emails to a list they had developed. If you can’t keep up, you are dead.

Incubator 91

Incubator Web Entrepreneur Santa Barbara 91

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. The answer is simple…but admittedly not easy: work your network hard. If you can find an investor with a wide network and a wealth of experience, you’ll be ahead in the game.

Venture Capital 86

Venture Capital Tips Incubator Startup 86

SoCal CTO

JANUARY 2, 2013

Then I got an email that asked: I'm leading the marketing efforts for an early-stage startup. You should begin asking at networking events and people you know in the startup world. This also avoids a common problem that will sometimes happen when you go the networking route. This happens a lot at the incubators / accelerators.

CTO Coach 259

CTO Coach Mentor Startup Technical Advisors 259

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? What is LavaLab/what is the vision?

Incubator 40

Incubator Southern California LAVA Los Angeles 40

InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2016

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.". Network – Colleges are populated by motivated individuals, many of whom will excel in their chosen fields. Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

Entrepreneur 150

Entrepreneur Case Study Education Seed Funding 150

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. Kick your networking up a notch. Hang out where entrepreneurs meet.

Sample 101

Sample Entrepreneur Technical Review Startup 101

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. He heads their business development practice and they have been very active in incubating, investing in and helping grow LA startups. Are you merging?

Venture Capital 290

Venture Capital Technical Review GRP Partners Email 290

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. Kick your networking up a notch. Hang out where entrepreneurs meet.

Startup 100

Startup Technical Review Entrepreneur Conference 100

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. So, where's the company now?

CTO Hire 100

CTO Hire Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Marketing 100

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. When I recently was looking to find people who had experience with using social networks to reach people for what might be considered guerilla marketing efforts, again LinkedIn worked great.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 15, 2012

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. • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS. Share and Enjoy.

Venture Capital 242

Venture Capital Technical Review Invest RSS 242

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

However Gmail is only private email conversations. It's a casual setupit's not an incubator, it's not an accelerator, and we're not charging anyone for space. They'll reply to my emails in half an hour, and give us great feedback on what we're doing. Ultimately, we're build tools for marketers on top of that.

Startup 242

Startup CTO Coach Blogging Social Media 242

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Along with Selling (see Be Like Sam ) and Networking (see Making Stone Soup and Personal Pitch ), negotiating is a vital startup skill. ALL of your employees must sell, network and spend the company’s money as if it were their own.

Startup 221

Startup Pricing Entrepreneur Email 221

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

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. We were incubated and launched in Canada in 2014, and at the end of 2015, we launched in the U.S. How did you end up in Santa Monica?

Mobile 100

Mobile Platform Commerce Class 100

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're bringing a new level of automation and intelligence to payment networks. We spoke with founder Matthew Goldman about the startup. What is Wallaby?

Help 157

Help Social Media Incubator Services 157

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Betaworks is more than an incubator, but they have shown that they can make the incubation model work with projects like bit.ly You should follow him on Twitter ( @jasonlbaptiste ) or say hi via email.

Startup 191

Startup Product Technology Venture Capital 191

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Mingle is a networking service that uses location to discover and create relevant connections. As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network. Or emailed a video clip to a sibling or friend across the country just to put a smile on their face? Community Sponsors.

Idealab 77

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

on all the computers and established a network using Novell. I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. Many MBAs took marketing courses but have never been on the front line of A/B testing, email campaigns or PR initiatives.

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Mingle is a networking service that uses location to discover and create relevant connections. As a result, the team transformed the advertising industry with the creation of the first in-image ad network. Or emailed a video clip to a sibling or friend across the country just to put a smile on their face? Community Sponsors.

Idealab 49

Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

the business incubator and studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones. We've got a network which can deal with anything that might come up. Aaron Hirschorn: We have a function which allows dog owners to get regular photo updates, via regular email, and eventually via a photo app, of their dog enjoying their vacay.

Technical Review 164

Technical Review Startup Sites Malibu 164

socalTECH

MARCH 5, 2012

the business incubator and studio headed by former MySpace CEO Mike Jones. We've got a network which can deal with anything that might come up. Aaron Hirschhorn: We have a function which allows dog owners to get regular photo updates, via regular email, and eventually via a photo app, of their dog enjoying their vacay.

Technical Review 160

Technical Review Startup Sites Malibu 160

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Bambi Francisco is founder and CEO of Vator.tv, a leading platform for entrepreneurs and innovators to broadcast and communicate with industry professionals, and VatorNews, a video business network. Quilici is also a member of the board of directors of NeoEdge Networks and a member of Tech Coast Angels. ycombinator.com. . Lisa Stone.

Twiistup 40

Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. 8:30 – 9:30pm – cocktail reception and networking. Dinesh earned his B.S. in Computer Science and his MBA from UC Irvine. RSVP: AGENDA. 6:00 – 7:00pm – check-in. Diamond Sponsor.

Tech Coast Angels 96

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

New companies are being raised and incubated to help build LA’s tech scene. You can even invite friends through Facebook, phonebook contacts, or email to help you be motivated in gaining your goals. Studies have proven that a strong network of friends that are into fitness, have helped each other become more fit than others.

Startup 97

Startup Training Examples Help 97

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

sold to Zynga Game Networks, Inc.). OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. 8:30 – 9:30pm – cocktail reception and networking. Sizhao “Zao&# Yang is currently the COO/co-founder at BetterWorks, Inc.,

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Design 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

It’s also a very exciting time here in LA Tech with over 6 accelerators and incubators springing up over the past year. Our judges for this Startup Weekend LA included: Howard Marks (Start Engine), Paige Craig (BetterWorks), David Waxman (PeoplePC, Firefly Networks, SpotRunner) and Tyler Crowley (Sqweal, OAF, Launch, TWiST, Mahalo).

Startup 66

Startup Mahalo Technical Review Idealab 66

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. They track user consumption across mobile devices and network and build usage patterns that they can then sell this anonymized data back to carriers and to other relevant sources who have an interest in knowing mobile consumption patterns. Wildfire Interactive.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. It takes both to build a community.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

We sent out a lot of emails and showed them a lot of visuals of what we can do. TB: We are an international team and using our available network is helping us push beyond the U.S. There are a lot of incubators and a lot of money that is starting to flow here. MR: It was all about knocking on doors.

Social Media 94

Social Media Startup UCLA Media 94

Frank Addante

JUNE 4, 2006

– Digital Messaging Infrastructure Company (incubated by Addante and Associates, LLC) Age: 25 - 29 (present) Time Period: 2002 - present My Role: Founder High Point: TBD Here is a summary of my experiences to-date with StrongMail: 1. Incubation 3. StrongMail Systems, Inc. Relaxing 2. Go-to-Market 5. Spam Changes Everything 6.

Startup 40

Startup Venture Capital Email CTO Hire 40

SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Talent agencies CAA and WME are incubating start-ups. Most Emailed Feed. Email Newsletters and Alerts. WSJ.com Email Features. The email address null is already associated with another account. Please enter a different email address: Enter Your Email. Email Newsletters and Alerts. Most Popular.

Los Angeles 44

Los Angeles Software Review Technical Review Journal 44

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

Or an incubator or an accelerator, but as we have seen there just aren’t enough of these institutions to support all the entrepreneurship around the world. These were people who joined the platform then emailed me with messages saying “I love this” or “we’ve been looking for something like this” and “this makes sense.”.

SoCal 104

SoCal Southern California Startup Platform 104