Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 25, 2016

Many startup businesses – tech or otherwise – fail. Trying outrageous new things or even trying mundane things but in new ways but with extreme quality & innovation is what fuels the tech startup industry. But today I want to give you advice on how to decrease your odds of failure in a startup.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2014

If you think you are the perfect fit for the entrepreneur lifestyle, but you’re not yet sure if you’re ready to start your own, then I recommend that you take a job with an existing startup first to validate the culture realities against your dream. Running or working for a startup is more of a lifestyle than a career choice.

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Tech.Co

DECEMBER 6, 2017

What’s your role in the Coachella Valley area startup ecosystem? Joe: In addition to the technology based entrepreneurship that is incubated in the iHub, CVEP operates a business services division that assists all types of local businesses with planning, financing, and growth. Joe Wallace, CEO and Chief Innovation Officer at CVEP.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

Dave is terrible with email. He’s so bad that his email auto-responder tells you he likely won’t email you back. And so are most startup CEOs for that matter. He picks up the phone when he wants to discuss a deal with you. He doesn’t email you. How can anybody do 500 startups?”. Not the Dave I know.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd catch up with two of the co-founders of Marina Del Rey-based Telesign (www.telesign.com), Ryan Disraeli and Stacy Stubblefield. How did the company start? Stacy Stubblefield: We actually started out of an incubator, based out of Beverly Hills. What were you doing before?

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socalTECH

JULY 27, 2012

Here's a unique way to figure out a name for your company: run a public survey vetting some of the possible names for your startup. Although private polls are not new in the world of naming products and startups, at least for the local area, it's probably the first to show up in a public forum. The company--Face It Corp.,

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2012

EverySignal , the latest startup out of startup incubator/studio Science, Inc. EverySignal--which has been in soft launch since September--delivers email notifications to let users know about the important events in their social circle, rather than having to filter through a deluge of social networking updates and data.

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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. Tell us the story behind how the firm started? We raised $2.1M They'll just keep getting it.

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Berkonomics

JANUARY 12, 2012

Email readers, continue here.] My favorite story of a fast failure was of a technology incubator started in the year 2000 with optimistic money from a number of angel investments, including mine. He volunteered to close the incubator and returned 96% of our investments to all of the angel investors.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 16, 2012

We're teaming up with west side studios, venues, incubators, and startups to plan the first ever Silicon Beach Fest! We've never had a home-grown startup-entertainment tech fest in LA, so let's make it happen! Email info@digitalla.net. Friday, June 22, 2012 -- Digital LA - Silicon Beach Fest, June 21-23.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2015

If you think you are the perfect fit for the entrepreneur lifestyle, but you’re not yet sure if you’re ready to start your own, then I recommend that you take a job with an existing startup first to validate the culture realities against your dream. Running or working for a startup is more of a lifestyle than a career choice.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 17, 2012

We're teaming up with west side studios, venues, incubators, and startups to plan the first ever Silicon Beach Fest! We've never had a home-grown startup-entertainment tech fest in LA, so let's make it happen! Email info@digitalla.net. Saturday, June 23, 2012 -- Digital LA - Silicon Beach Fest, June 21-23.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 15, 2012

We're teaming up with west side studios, venues, incubators, and startups to plan the first ever Silicon Beach Fest! We've never had a home-grown startup-entertainment tech fest in LA, so let's make it happen! Email info@digitalla.net. Thursday, June 21, 2012 -- Digital LA - Silicon Beach Fest, June 21-23.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Elementary Robotics was co-founded by Bill Gross, the brains behind an increasingly resurgent Idealab incubator, and Arye Barnehama, a former head of design at the augmented reality startup DAQRI. This is a game-changer, and opens up a new frontier of lower cost, easier to program, easier to use robotics for more mainstream operations.”

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

Well, Los Angeles-based Dog Vacay , a new person-to-person marketplace startup, is looking to help connect pet owners with other dog owners and pet sitters, who are willing to watch their pets when their owners are on vacation. The new startup is backed by Science, Inc.,

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

If you are looking for money, this question will certainly come up in one form or another when you approach professional or organized angel or VC investors. Would you, as an investor, plow money into the plan and help to incubate the idea into a real enterprise? Early stage investors have been arguing over this for years.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

If you are looking for money, this question will certainly come up in one form or another when you approach professional or organized angel or VC investors. Would you, as an investor, plow money into the plan and help to incubate the idea into a real enterprise? Early stage investors have been arguing over this for years.

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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. This lunch features speakers who will share their experiences and advice on starting companies. Email tanyaz@uci.edu.

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InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

If there happens to be a gas station along the way where you can fill up for a reasonable price, great. In 2000, at Expertcity (creator of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting, acquired by Citrix), we raised $30 million at an $80 million pre-money valuation – for a startup with absolutely zero revenue. However, do not count on it.

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socalTECH

APRIL 18, 2011

The firm's CEO, David Weir, said in an email to users that the article--which investigated the firm's accreditation process--"badly misrepresented" the company's policies and procedures. SharesPost allows users to trade shares in privately owned companies, mostly venture backed startups like Twitter and Facebook. READ MORE>>

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InfoChachkie

APRIL 21, 2013

"When people would ask me when I was a little kid what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would tell them ''a waitress,'' much to my mother''s chagrin. It was that love of serving people that led me on my long journey of starting a company.". Sarah continued her story by describing her life growing up in an entrepreneurial household. "I

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 5, 2022

From Los Angeles to Silicon Valley , a trend emerged among social media influencers and startup founders alike: move into a mansion with 10 or so collaborators, work day and night together to build fame and wealth, and hope that your new roommates do their dishes. Image Credits: Robiiiworld (Brandy Merriweather via BStarPR).

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Santa Monica-based CRM software developer Nimble has been selected to join Microsoft's startup accelerator in Seattle, the company said today, in a major move which will help tie Nimble into Microsoft's ecosystem. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 5, 2012

Startup Weekend LA has grown to become a very special event here in Los Angeles. It’s also a very exciting time here in LA Tech with over 6 accelerators and incubators springing up over the past year. On Friday evening, the SWLA energy started to brew at the Coloft as participants began showing up around 5:00 PM.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Southern California has had its share of new startup accelerators launch in the last few months, however, few people here have actually experienced an accelerator firsthand. Alex Benzer: I'm actually building two startups. SocialEngine is four years old, and that's the startup we applied to TechStars with.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 5, 2013

We live in a generation of startups,” Marks began. He described why the time is so ripe for innovation and why this was a great time to build startups. Marks continued to talk about his past and then talked about the startup landscape in Los Angeles. I built up credibility.”. The Time Is Now. “We

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socalTECH

MARCH 9, 2017

Paul Myer: Veracity Industrial Networks is a startup in the industrial network security segment. Industrial networking is a new category for me, personally, and I only started here two years ago. As they did that, they were not only increasingly connected internally, but people started to have remote access to those same systems.

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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. Oded Vakrat: Retailers usually offer 30 day price protection, and on top of that, most credit card issuers offer up to 90 days of price protection. What's Earny? Oded Vakrat: Earny is a personal assistant.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 16, 2014

We recently sat down with Luc Berlin, co-founder of Miigle, a SoCal startup that has an aggressive global mission to bring entrepreneurs together from around the world. We followed up with Luc to see just how he’s been managing the entrepreneurial waters. The quintessential problem that every startup has is one of visibility.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

The most common question I get running a college talent startup is: “What is the entrepreneurship culture like in schools? Many believe the same culture will be essential to the success of growing Southern California’s own startup culture. Zhang shares his thoughts about Los Angeles, incubator programs, and more.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 8, 2013

With our client roster of successfully funded startups and my close relationships with many in the investor community in Silicon Valley, I think I’ve figured out 8 keys for making these kinds of real connections: 1. You want to target early-stage investors—those VCs that focus on seed, startup and first stage financing.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 13, 2012

It’s like a bar crawl, but with startup/Accelerator/Incubator offices instead of bars. Each venue will host a group of developers, designers, entrepreneurs and other startups in their office for 45 minutes or so then feel free to move on to the next stop. Email info@techzulu.com and we will add you as one of the stops.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

We caught up with Paul to see his views on LA tech, fitness, and his Alpha Trainer app. TechZulu: Since you are stationed up in North California, What is the tech scene like in LA for you? New companies are being raised and incubated to help build LA’s tech scene. So how did Alpha Trainer all start?

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Where LinkedIn Works for Me Ive been a long time user of LinkedIn , but only recently have started getting the benefits I always expected. Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2016

Given the stellar startup careers of non-college graduates like Zuckerberg, Ellison, Disney, Gates, Jobs, Branson and Dell, the answer to this question might surprise you. In each case, the students were glad they remained in school and snagged their diploma before launching their startups. . In sports, outliers generate headlines.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

At the highest level we’re looking for somebody really intelligent, digitally native, financially numerate and interested in startups. 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.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 8, 2012

It’s like a bar crawl, but with startup/Accelerator/Incubator offices instead of bars. Each venue will host a group of developers, designers, entrepreneurs and other startups in their office for 45 minutes or so then feel free to move on to the next stop. What do you do on a Tech Crawl? Be Part of the Crawl! Tech Crawl Venues.

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