socalTECH

MAY 25, 2012

If you were a student in college, working on a startup idea, what would spur you to drop your education plans, and go full time on your startup? We understand you were in school when you started this? I started playing around with a similar idea in my freshman year. First off, what is MySocialCloud?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 21, 2019

We spoke with Neal about the startup. Neal Pecchenino: I starte seeing a lot of them, as I became aware of the spaces and things around me while I was running a prior company of mine, in consumer electroincs. So, we started looking at advertising campaigns and billboards, but we never could really bite the bullet on something that big.

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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. 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.

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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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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

However, the newest venture capital fund in the area TenOneTen Ventures (tenoneten.net), headed up by David Waxman and Gil Elbaz, is hoping to change that, by focusing its efforts on technology-focused startups here. I was just at USC yesterday, and they''re really focused on great things in science in engineering. David Waxman.:

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

We also started offering Factory Tour Workshops to entrepreneurs, with nearly 100 applying for the pilots. It's the emails from fans and the enthusiasm from founders that keeps driving me to be an evangelistto contribute my time to building the community through MAKE IT IN LA and telling the stories through my podcast. .

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Coming hot off the coat tail of earlier this year’s Startup Weekend LA where Zaarly launched, this LASW was nothing less than amazing and as someone put, one of the best tech events in LA they had ever been to. With the pitching energy escalating in the room, regular pitches began short after.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2015

If you've ever used one of the more popular, mobile dating apps, you are probably used to the endless, back-and-forth texting that occurs when everyone is sizing each other up and deciding if they do, or do not, want to actually go on a date. Mitch Kahan: With out app, the locations are set up in advance. I wanted to date faster.

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Mobile Startup Ideas Sites 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. The reality of most startups is about survival. If people don’t know the mission there is no way to achieve the objective and you end up with a team pulling in 100 different directions – even if only by small amounts.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Santa Monica startup airline Surf Air has been spreading its wings in recent months and spreading the word about its initiatives at Silicon Beach events such as Social Media Week LA and Techweek LA. The startup airline currently flies in California only as it strives to expand nationwide. We pride ourselves on being agile.

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socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

We started in the comedy industry, hence the name, but basically for venues, we have a website management tool so you can fire your web programmer. How did the company start? My co-founder is Nasi Peretz, who is CTO of West Side Rentals, another LA company, and who also ran properties at USC for the business school and law school.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

All systems were go for the product, and we were really focused on getting the product out of the door, marketing it to customers, and setting up meetings in the academic space, with researchers who wanted to use the technology. When you started, we were in a completely different kind of world, in terms of the economy.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It's been awhile since we last caught up with Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), a venture-backed firm which develops language translation software, so we sat down the other day with Mark Tapling , the President and CEO of the firm, to hear more about where the company is nowadays--plus its strategy for growth and an exit.

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Software Review USC Content Tech Coast Angels 145

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. You’ve seen a lot of products; what makes a startup stand out in the crowd?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2010

Having followed the firm since its early days as a spinout of USC, we thought we'd talk with CEO Mark Tapling to get the back story behind the acquisition, and where the firm is going form here. Mark Tapling: Starting in March of 2008, Language Weaver really embarked on a growth strategy. Mark, thanks for the time today. Cash is king.

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AUGUST 23, 2010

Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA? Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but in an industry where output is the goal, things start to look scarily homogeneous when everyone relies on the same tools, sounds, sync buttons, and formula for success. So what’s your particular background and how did you end up with a team of musicians?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The show focuses on legal issues surrounding startups, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and emerging technology. About The Show: TZLaw Segments are: News You Can Use: a weekly roundup of top tech law headlines and analysis geared towards lean startups. reputation rating websites and advising technology startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 21, 2010

The short story: Colin & I have been close friends for 13 years when we started our MBA program together. Colin has now won visitation rights in an Egyptian court, but Mirvat didn’t show up at the legally required meeting day / time in Egypt. My email address is my Twitter handle at Gmail.

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Help Startup Resource USC 302

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2016

Having grown up in the US but having lived in Europe for more than a decade gives me a unique perspective to know this problem is more pronounced in America and we have a responsibility to continue to chip away at the problem. How can we as a community not speak up? The community started calling cop cars, “Black and Normals.”

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