Snap Launches Third Yellow Accelerator Program
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FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Snap says that those 10 companies were receive $150,000 in equity investments, mentorship from Snap and others, space in Los Angeles, as well as other support.
How Kixer Is Connecting Mobile Web Users To Apps
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AUGUST 15, 2014
Many online business today have a big problem: users are increasingly coming to their websites as mobile users, not desktop users, which means lower ad revenues and conversions. How do you make those mobile users just as profitable as desktop users? All of the sudden, there was a growth in users coming from mobile platforms.
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6 Funding Resources For Ideas Needing More Validation
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 2, 2023
While all forms of technology research and development will always be required, entrepreneurs need to understand that the funding for these efforts comes from many different sources, depending on the stage. Developers are using powerful technology tools to build mobile apps and websites for a few thousand, rather than millions of dollars.
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10 Tests of Your Modern Entrepreneur Lingo Savvy
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 12, 2013
Many entrepreneurs I know don’t realize that the language they learned in the corporate world, or even their recent MBA class, won’t get them ahead in the startup world today. As a reality check, try this quick test of your entrepreneur savvy. As a reality check, try this quick test of your entrepreneur savvy. Super-angels.
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Alternative Accelerators and Start-Up Resources
SoCal Tech Calendar
JUNE 24, 2016
This is especially true for first-time and early-stage entrepreneurs not yet ready to pursue venture capital or who lack certain critical capabilities. The next Mobile LAVA will present some of these different equity partners available to start-ups in todays rapidly evolving tech landscape.
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Alternative Accelerators and Start-Up Resources
SoCal Tech Calendar
JUNE 17, 2016
This is especially true for first-time and early-stage entrepreneurs not yet ready to pursue venture capital or who lack certain critical capabilities. The next Mobile LAVA will present some of these different equity partners available to start-ups in todays rapidly evolving tech landscape.
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Two LA Venture Funds Get Backing From PayPal
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OCTOBER 28, 2020
says its provides access to capital, mentorship, and operational resources for people of color, women and LGBTQ+ entrepreneurs, and focuses on creators, investors, entrepreneurs, operators and community builders. Slauson & Co.
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6 Sources of Help For Early Stage Concept Exploration
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 18, 2021
While all forms of technology research and development will always be required, entrepreneurs need to understand that the funding for these efforts comes from many different sources, depending on the stage. Developers are using powerful technology tools to build mobile apps and websites for a few thousand, rather than millions of dollars.
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Famous Birthdays Focuses On Finding Celebrity Facts
socalTECH
MAY 1, 2013
The startup--the brainchild of Evan Britton--has been ramping up its efforts recently, having just launched a brand new responsive web design which optimizes the site for mobile phones and tablets, in addition to desktop web browsers. The design just went live in the last couple of weeks.
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LA, and Southern California's Surge In Venture Capital Funds
socalTECH
JUNE 29, 2017
Those local funds are on top of a massive injection of funding from out of area venture capitalists, private equity funds, family offices, and strategic investors. List ordered by fund size). Upfront Ventures. upfront.com. Fund size: Not disclosed, but $7.2M so far in investments. Watertower Ventures.
AirPush's Asher Delug: Bootstrapping Your Way To $100M
socalTECH
MARCH 28, 2014
Los Angeles-based mobile advertising company Airpush has quietly grown to around $100M in annual revenues, according to a recent ranking from Forbes--a big surprise, as the company was completely bootstrapped by founder Asher Delug , who eschewed the usual use of venture capital and private equity to build a company to those revenue levels.
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Interview with Ian Chen, Co-founder and CEO, Discotech
socalTECH
AUGUST 6, 2019
Ian talked to us about the rewards and challenges of being an entrepreneur, plus how important it is to manage lifetime value (LTV) of a customer versus customer acquisition cost (CAC) in making a successful company. (We Ian Chen: In my previous life, I was working in private equity in LA. What is Discotech?
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Snap’s Yellow accelerator debuts its third batch of investments
TechCrunch LA
MAY 12, 2020
The group occupies some familiar spaces for past investments, with a focus on niche social communities, mobile media tools and augmented reality. Mogul Millennial : a media startup sharing professional resources for Black entrepreneurs. Snap investment Hardworkers. Charli Cohen : a “next-gen” streetwear fashion brand.
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6 New Venture Funding Realities To Guide Your Efforts
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 17, 2022
Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. Yet, in my view, every early-stage entrepreneur should be exploring this new funding alternative before approaching VCs. It’s the right way to get money without giving up too much equity or control of your business. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down.
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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. At that point, you can't really just try to find someone to build it on the side, do equity only, etc. In the case of the entrepreneur that was the genesis of this post, he had done a lot on paper. Stay on point.
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349 Reflections on 2016: Rob Freelen, Silicon Valley Bank
socalTECH
DECEMBER 30, 2016
we're proud to be part of one of the world's most vibrant innovation ecosystems with some of the fastest growing companies and most creative entrepreneurs. I studied East Asian religions in college and was intrigued to hear that a Buddhist monk was delivering meditation and mindfulness via a mobile app. Rob Freelen: Focus.
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9+ Studio Giving $110K in Funding For Game Developers To Shift To Consumer, Big Data & Wearable Computing Startups
Tech Zulu Event
AUGUST 19, 2013
Silicon Valley’s 9+, an accelerator founded by serial entrepreneur and company builder Peter Relan is investing $110,000 into game developers to quit developing games and shift to consumer, mobile, Big Data and wearable apps. 110,000 to quit developing games for wearable apps. 2 million raised. 2 million raised. Growth hackers.
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79 How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide
SoCal CTO
SEPTEMBER 14, 2011
His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. At that point, you can't really just try to find someone to build it on the side, do equity only, etc. In the case of the entrepreneur that was the genesis of this post, he had done a lot on paper. Stay on point.
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Interview with Daniel Scalisi, MobileCause
socalTECH
NOVEMBER 30, 2009
Daniel Scalisi is the CEO of Los Angeles-based MobileCause (www.mobilecause.com), a startup focused on the mobile, nonprofit fundraising area. We've now been operating for five months, and have become the leading web service for mobile fundraising in the country. What is mobile fundraising? Those donations are mobile initiated.
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Interview with Jonathan LaCour, Playzon
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 3, 2012
How do you come up with a compelling, mobile videogame title? We thought it would be interesting to hear the story behind Jonathan's startup efforts and where he hopes his mobile gaming startup will go. Now that we have the technology for mobile phones and tablets, to put out a game like Infinity Blade, that's what we are going to do.
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217 My Chat with Dan Primack of PEHub
Both Sides of the Table
AUGUST 12, 2010
In the VC & Private Equity world there’s a small number, too, with one of the most respected being PEHub. There is an industry changing shift going on in the internet and mobile-based IT space for sure. Dan believed that consumer internet entrepreneurs have a choice now: traditional VC vs. super seed investors.
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Interview with Paul Bricault, Amplify
socalTECH
MARCH 21, 2012
The standard model for an accelerator is, they provide a tranche of equity, along with a suite of services that varies by different accelerator. Because of that, you get to meet slots of people in the community, because there's such a prolific number of entrepreneurs. The amount of capital varies by accelerator.
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Realistic Strategies For Funding Product Development
Startup Professionals Musings
APRIL 13, 2015
While all forms of technology research and development will always be required, entrepreneurs need to understand that the funding for these efforts comes from many different sources, depending on the stage. Developers are using powerful technology tools to build mobile apps and websites for a few thousand, rather than millions of dollars.
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102 Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing
Both Sides of the Table
SEPTEMBER 25, 2010
When I first read Paul Graham’s blog post on “High Resolution&# Financing I read it as a treatise arguing that convertible notes are better than equity. Not that they’re “such a bad idea&# but more that there are inherent problems for entrepreneurs in the process of raising angel money that need to be addressed.
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6 Insights To Current Funding Trends For Your Startup
Startup Professionals Musings
JANUARY 19, 2020
Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. Yet, in my view, every early-stage entrepreneur should be exploring this new funding alternative before approaching VCs. It’s the right way to get money without giving up too much equity or control of your business. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down.
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TechZulu Presents 2012 Startup Forecast | Featuring Science, Tech Coast Angels, Amplify, StartEngine, upStart.LA
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 30, 2011
Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2012, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses.
Interview with Sam Altman, PartyEarth
socalTECH
JANUARY 5, 2012
We caught up with Sam Altman, the firm's founder, to hear more about the company, and how we went from working in private equity to heading up a company all about finding nightlife. When I finished school at Stanford, I knew I wanted to run my own company, but ended up moving to Los Angeles to join with a large private equity firm.
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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map
SoCal Delicious
SEPTEMBER 19, 2012
Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Follow PandoDaily: Search.
Interview with Sam Teller, LaunchpadLA
socalTECH
JUNE 20, 2012
We caught up with Sam Teller , who is directing efforts at the accelerator, to help fill entrepreneurs in on where the program fits in the world of technology and startup acceleration. It was really just something built for the community to help support entrepreneurs. For readers, LaunchpadLA is all about?
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261 Interview: Seth Epstein of SocialStay
InfoChachkie
FEBRUARY 24, 2011
Value Prop Twitter Style : SocialStay is: "An easy to set up & manage mobile platform designed for the hospitality industry. Month by month, the hospitality business is sorting out how mobile plays a role in increasing revenue and driving loyalty. Seth attended UCSB but dropped out to start a denim company. . Write it down….
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233 Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?
Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 17, 2010
We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. I like to repeat the mantra, “necessity is the mother of all invention,&# meaning that because investors have this expectation you find entrepreneurs that focus on nearer term monetization.
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290 How More Women Are Becoming Angel Investors, with Eva Yazhari
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 12, 2013
In a bid to change that, there are a few groups working on helping women entrepreneurs, investors, and others, including the Pipeline Fellowship (www.pipelinefellowship.com), which recently launched itself into the Los Angeles market. It''s really a fantastic way to get mobilized. READ MORE>>.
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March Capital Partners' Jim Armstrong On A New, $240M Venture Fund
socalTECH
MAY 25, 2016
At Idealab, we saw many shots on goal with companies who were consumer focused, and we have found the quality of entrepreneurs going to consumer Internet companies has changed dramatically, which represents a real opportunity. It's all about the entrepreneur. Each and everyone is creating their own equity scenario.
Super Angels Are A Boon To Startups Needing Funding
Startup Professionals Musings
DECEMBER 27, 2014
Mobile and web software apps may cost even less. Yet, in my view, every early-stage entrepreneur should be exploring this new funding alternative before approaching VCs. It’s the right way to get money without giving up too much equity or control of your business. The cost of entry for tech startups continues to go down.
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Interview with Amir Banifatemi and Kai Tao, K5Launch
socalTECH
OCTOBER 27, 2011
K5Launch (www.k5launch.com) is modeled after the successful Y-Combinator and TechStars acceleration programs, and invests equity, provides mentors, and runs a three month program to get very early stage startups off the ground. However, the main benefit is the one-on-one assistance of entrepreneurs, and access to capital.
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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)
Both Sides of the Table
JULY 10, 2010
For entrepreneurs who want to learn about how to work with investment banks, how to position yourself to be acquired and what the IPO markets look like this is the episode to watch. They have relationships that are hard for entrepreneurs to build. Clients include Skype, Equifax, T-Mobile, Fox Internactive Media. We discussed: 1.
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242 Interview with Kevin Hell, EvoNexus
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 13, 2012
When companies come into our incubator, we take no equity, we take no stake in the company, it's completely free for the participant. We're providing a very unique benefit, which is an entrepreneur-friendly incubator. It's a slightly different formula from the first location, as it is focused on early stage mobile apps and Internet.
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212 Venture investors and startup execs say they don’t need Elizabeth Warren to defend them from big tech
TechCrunch LA
MARCH 8, 2019
“We’re not seeing that innovation or initiative come from the government – or that support for encouraging immigration and by extension embracing the talented foreign entrepreneurs that could develop new technologies and businesses.” ”
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144 Indianapolis is the “It Place” to Start a Startup?
Tech Zulu Event
NOVEMBER 8, 2012
Being an entrepreneur is about, “The journey through the ‘NO’ to get to the YES’ ” said by Ryan Caldbeck, CEO of CircleUp , on a panel at the Connections Conference in Indianapolis. Being an entrepreneur is about making a commitment no matter how painfully difficult it is to keep it. image EPA/Andrew Gombert.
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2010 VC Funding Outlook for Startups – Prepare for Winter (Part 3/3)
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 1, 2009
We spent our future since the equity was artificial. It’s my job to invest wisely in entrepreneurs who are capital efficient, who innovate in ways that pay off economically in good markets or bad and who plan for worst-case scenarios. It is also a result of pent-up demand. Consumer spending is where I’m dubious. I disagree.
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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 27, 2011
Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Sangster is a serial entrepreneur and M&A executive with experience both founding and acquiring businesses.
Interview with Andy Steuer, Punchcard
socalTECH
MARCH 1, 2012
Last week, Pasadena-based Punchcard (www.punchcard.com) launched its mobile apps, which help local retailers provide rewards to loyal customers. Andy Steuer: Punchcard is a mobile loyalty rewards app. That was a rocket ride as well, and that took us to a top 10 website, and NBC took an equity steak in the company.
Spotlight: LA Tech SuperDemo Announced! | Mike Jones Former Myspace CEO
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 21, 2011
We want to provide our audience with not only amazing presenting startups/newly released products (submissions still open Apply Here ) but also outstanding people that can help you grow as an entrepreneur and lead a successful business. That’s why we are extremely excited to announce Mike Jones as our SuperDemo!
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76 The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking
Tech Zulu Event
AUGUST 13, 2010
TechZulu is helping the startup community out by listing all the great startup/entrepreneur oriented panels. Bootstrapping advice, entrepreneur, startups. . The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Bootstrapping entrepeneurship, entrepreneur, startups. .
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