socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

That''s true of many Southern California ad-tech companies. What do you think will take Southern California''s technology community to the next level? E-commerce is a great example. The problem is diseconomy of scale. Their only option is an IPO. There are just not buyers out there. Now we have it.

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Southern California SoCal Commerce Invest 124

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2016

All this holiday season, we have been sharing the reflections on 2016 from the movers and shakers in Southern California's technology ecosystem. 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.

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Santa Monica Southern California Venture Capital SoCalTech 124

Berkonomics

APRIL 2, 2020

late 1960’s (yes, I know, a long time ago), there were 31 phonograph record manufacturing plants in Southern California alone. A more modern example. Email readers, continue here…] Here it is, not so many years later, and the signs are more subtle yet, but the speed of obsolescence is much faster. First, in the.

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Southern California Examples Social Network Press 177

SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 9, 2012

Wednesday, July 11, 2012 -- Maverick Angels Open Evening for Entrepreneurs. The Maverick Angels Open Evening for Entrepreneurs is an event geared towards familiarizing entrepreneurs with the Maverick Angels process, our members, and our sponsors. See [link] (more)

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Entrepreneur Angel Startup Examples 113

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2019

Matt Kozlov: We created this program, because there has been lots of recent advances in the growth of the commercial, military, and civil space economy here in our backyard in Southern California. For example, we have a company using autonomous drones for both aerial and terrestrial, GPS-denied harsh environments.

Southern California 124

Southern California Startup Entrepreneur Los Angeles 124

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

So, how do marketers figure out if you're the same person to better target their ads? Convertro , the online advertising analytics firm headed by serial entrepreneur Jeff Zwelling, said today that it has launched a new product to help marketers with that problem. Convertro did not say how much the new features will cost to users.

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Southern California Advertising Examples Web 159

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. For example, take someone who is developing a travel solution as a mobile application. We know that Miigle is a platform for entrepreneurs to share ideas.

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SoCal Southern California Startup Platform 104

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. On the one hand, an entrepreneur should not be overly paranoid and should know the ropes that VCs and other professional investors generally will not sign NDAs to see the concept or a prototype--and even if they did, it would not provide much protection.

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. Today's contribution is from Lawrence Ng , serial entrepreneur who, last year, founded OnRamp Fund , a $10 million incubator that invests in early stage startups. You can see all of our holiday reflections here.

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Funding Southern California Incubator Startup 113

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Redpoint Ventures is one of the venture capital firms which has straddled both Northern California and Southern California, with offices in both locations. It would be interesting to hear about where your interests are nowdays, there was a rumor Redpoint had backed off activity here lately. We really believe in the market.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

Those programs--epitomized by YCombinator in the Bay Area, and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado--attract newly minted entrepreneurs with a mixture of cash and mentoring, and a program which rapidly takes ideas and turns them into viable, executing businesses. Typically, venture backed companies, always entrepreneur led.

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Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

socalTECH

DECEMBER 30, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. 1) Mobile web.

Technical Review 160

Technical Review Southern California Cloud Computing Venture Capital 160

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 21, 2015

Hundreds of founders, speakers, mentors, and students flocked to the University of Southern California on March 28 th , 2015 to be inspired by female entrepreneurs. Pocket shares her insights and stories with us: Why is female entrepreneurship so important and what inspired you to create SoGal? She didn’t stop there.

Entrepreneur 40

Entrepreneur Southern California Conference Startup 40

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

So you don't see as many people looking for funding now? Mike Napoli: Actually, we are seeing entrepreneurs. It used to be there was a geographical composition to our prescreening panel--for example, if an LA company, regardless of what they did, applied for funding, the LA network of the TCA would process them.

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Tech Coast Angels Technical Review Angel Southern California 231

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech community. We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. READ MORE>>.

Miramar 140

Miramar Southern California High Tech Clearstone 140

InfoChachkie

OCTOBER 20, 2014

Want to be an entrepreneur? According to a recent Forbes article , UC Santa Barbara''s Technology Management Program offers students a superior startup education over the University of Pennsylvania (home of Wharton), as well Harvard, Northwestern and even its acclaimed southern neighbor, the University of Southern California.

Santa Barbara 258

Santa Barbara Technical Review Startup Venture Capital 258

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2010

We thought today for our interview, that we'd get an update on the angel investment environment here in Southern California from Scott Sangster , the incoming President of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Tech Coast Angels , the biggest angel investment group in Southern California. Of course not.

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Tech Coast Angels Technical Review Angel Southern California 182

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APRIL 24, 2020

Carey Ransom: I've been involved in more than ten different software and services, fintech startups and growth stage companies in Southern California since the early 20000. Uniquely, I haven't had to be that serial entrepreneur, who has had to found my own companies and only work on my own ideas. What were you doing before OC4?

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Invest Startup Ideas Examples 124

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Entrepreneurs like Matt Coffin , Kamran Pourzanjani and Brock Pierce were making their mark. Jason Calacanis coined the SoCal scene the “Digital Coast,” and Brad Nye brought everyone together at his notorious VIC events (Venice Interactive Community). However, that wasn’t the start … Rewind to the 90s.

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Southern California Santa Monica SoCal High Tech 89

socalTECH

OCTOBER 6, 2017

For example, we're the official mobile app of UCLA, even though behind the scenes is actually Hopscotch. We've built an open architecture, so we can pull in the latest and greatest technology. For example, Taco Bell sponsors the Lakers. What's the biggest lesson you've learned here so far as an entrepreneur?

Mobile 162

Mobile Platform El Segundo UCLA 162

socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2019

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions for 2019 from Southern California's technology industry. They also have to be willing to lead by example, while not being afraid to show vulnerability and honesty about their limitations.

Technical Review 157

Technical Review Software Review Startup Coach 157

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2011

One of the biggest complaints you hear from both entrepreneurs and investors in Los Angeles, is the lack of a credible, visible startup accelerator in the Los Angeles area. Like other people that live here, I personally love Southern California, and wanted to live here. Where did the name MuckerLab come from?

Technical Advisors 176

Technical Advisors Startup Southern California Los Angeles 176

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Are you an entrepreneur hoping to startup a company in the Los Angeles area? Southern California apparently has no shortage of investors, entrepreneurs, and others eager to help budding entrepreneurs. Howard Marks: We're a startup accelerator, which will help entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days.

CTO Coach 194

CTO Coach Startup Mentor Activision 194

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. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so. My commute, for example, from Santa Monica to Century City is less than 15 minutes each way and I never have to take the freeway.

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2010

All this week, we are sharing the opinions of some of the top influencers in Southern California's high tech communityk. We asked the same five questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next two weeks. READ MORE>>.

Rustic Canyon 164

Rustic Canyon Southern California High Tech Venture Capital 164

Berkonomics

MAY 16, 2013

First, in the late 1960’s (yes, I know, a long time ago), there were 31 phonograph record manufacturing plants in Southern California alone. Email readers, continue here.] Here it is, not so many years later, and the signs are more subtle yet, but the speed of obsolescence is much faster. By 1975, there were only two.

Southern California 228

Southern California Social Network Press Guide 228

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Sotsky is an experienced entrepreneur, who last founded and led Hopscotch; The OIX is backed by Brett Markinson, the angel investor who has backed such companies as Hautelook and LowerMyBills. There were lots of deals flowing my way, because Southern California is a hopping market, and I've had a lot of success in my career.

Startup 100

Startup Venture Capital Southern California Entertainment 100

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2012

For example, if you as a consumer shop at a place, when you're done with your transaction, you can take a picture of your receipt, and start earning "punches" on Punchard at the places you shop. So how did you end up back in Southern California? We moved back down to Southern California, and never looked back.

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Southern California Idealab Startup Customer 245

socalTECH

JULY 20, 2010

One of Southern California's successful, serial entrepreneurs is Winston Damarillo , who founded Gluecode, which he sold to IBM in 2005. Morphlabs is a cloud computing company, part of a good cluster of firms that we now have in Southern California, including 3Tera in Orange County, and Eucalyptus in Santa Barbara.

Southern California 242

Southern California Startup Cloud Computing El Segundo 242

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

An example of that is the UCLA flood. tilofy location data science computer bigdata parsing filtering interview startup entrepreneur southern california' Watsup makes it extremely simple for you to get an idea of what is happening around you. READ MORE>>.

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USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

We're describing ourselves as a micro-cap venture fund, focused on digital media opportunities in the emerging ecosystem of Southern California. It's analytics around users and visitation on web sites, and it's knowledge of the consumption of photos--for example, GumGum--or video images on the web.

Southern California 153

Southern California Startup Palomar Rustic Canyon 153

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

The Founder Institute (www.founderinstitute.com), an entrepreneurial training program that originally launched by Adeo Ressi in Silicon Valley, recently announced that it is setting up shop in Southern California, with branches both in San Diego and Los Angeles. For example, there's an idea for an events company we're considering.

Mentor 185

Mentor Class Entertainment Technical Review 185

socalTECH

JANUARY 3, 2014

I kept thinking that someone would eventually come up with a hub or place you could do everything--a home page, for example, where if you were going on a trip, and you could easily load your iPad full of stuff automatically. That would be movies that were best for me, what music albums I should download. That''s why I moved here.

Entertainment 206

Entertainment Startup Southern California Netflix 206

Tech.Co

JULY 18, 2016

Whether it be renowned athletes looking to enjoy some sun in the off-season or movies stars basking in the glory of stardom in between takes, the number of recognizable faces in this southern California city can be too much for some fans to bear. And for those L.A. This isn’t just a showcase for the sake of a showcase.

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Los Angeles Angel Startup Newsletter 70

socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

One of the biggest complaints that local entrepreneurs have with Los Angeles has been a dearth of local sources of venture capital. I tend to invest in seasoned entrepreneurs or those who have the right experience in the particular industry they are in. How does Southern California versus Silicon Valley compare so far?

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Funding Startup Invest Commerce 253

socalTECH

APRIL 25, 2013

com) recently scored a round of funding from such notable investors as Data Collective, Brad Jones of Redpoint Ventures, Horizon Ventures, and TenOneTen Ventures, the new Southern California venture capital firm headed by Gil Elbaz and David Waxman. A few examples of what we''ve done, is we do instant search. SRCH2 (www.srch2.com)

Technology 216

Technology Google Commerce Southern California 216

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

For today's interview, we spoke to Dave Eastman, the Director of the Viterbi Startup Garage, a startup incubator that is run by the University of Southern California, out of its location in Marina Del Rey. It's not entirely exclusive, however. We have two annual cohorts, each of which has a 12 month residency period.

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Marina Del Rey Startup USC Incubator 150