TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Founded by Steve Poizner last year to accelerate the growth of a startup entrepreneurial ecosystem in Southern California, The Alliance is building a network of investors, entrepreneurs and universities to provide ballast in the south to the dominance of the Northern California tech industry.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations. He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. How did it help you? Tell me a bit about your background. It sounds interesting.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The group--which was started by Richard Koffler and John Morris , two well known investors in Los Angeles--has been trying to help connect CEOs with interesting university and other technology projects. What is the idea behind the Tech CEO Network? The Tech CEO Network is there to fill the gap. Thanks for the time today.

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Networking Research Startup USC 215

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In his quest to better connect with new friends, Alex Capecelatro had a problem: none of the existing social networking sites were really designed to connect people with who you didn't know, and might share your hobbies and interests. We noticed you have lots of UCLA folks involved in the business--what's the link to UCLA?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

To understand how one local company is making that transition, we talked with Los Angeles-based All About Addiction (www.allaboutaddiction.com), a company that grew out of Adi Jaffe's work at UCLA as a trained psychologist. Adi Jaffe: I'm a UCLA addiction trained psychologist, specializing in addiction. Adi Jaffe: It is tough.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

We asked the same four 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 week. We launched a Digital LA - Women series with four panels starring female founders, entrepreneurs, developers and PR, which will also continue into the new year.

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Dollar Shave Club Technical Review Santa Monica Southern California 272

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

In addition to his experience as an angel investor, Kelly served in the US Army as a Military Intelligence Officer and completed Airborne and Ranger training, and graduated from West Point and UCLA. I decided to found Moonshots Capital as an angel syndicate through our network of accredited angels, basically as a single purpose vehicle.

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Capital Startup Invest Training 223

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

The debt market has pretty much shut down for people, though there is some money coming out of the SBAs that have been somewhat helpful. Mike Napoli: Actually, we are seeing entrepreneurs. Mike Napoli: I think it was the entrepreneur. So do you think the environment still tough for startups?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. The early-stage tech ecosystems here in LA and in Austin (we have offices in both) are growing so quickly, and we are fired up to help fuel that growth.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

App developers are spending a lot of money with the ad networks just to get users to download an app and go through your tutorial. Some entrepreneurs might be surprised you didn't want to sit on a beach in Bali for the rest of your life�talk more about that? I had a programming job at UCLA at the time, working at UCLA Radiology.

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Startup Southern California UCLA Technical Review 113

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Los Angeles-based Tilofy (www.tilofy.com)--out of USC''s Viterbi Startup Garage--is doing just that, helping to highlight what is going on around you, by absorbing all of that location data out there at any particular time and place. An example of that is the UCLA flood. He just new something was going on. READ MORE>>.

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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. Over the past few months I've been building my networking, and we've done about a deal a month so far. I think the right team and network are very important, as is traction, validated by customers.

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Funding Startup Invest Commerce 253

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The creators of the renowned StartupWeekend — a place where random ad hoc teams work frantically for 54 hours to build a demo of a new business and then complete for fame and fortune — have picked up where StartupWeekend left off and have birthed a new course for entrepreneurs who need to level up called StartupWeekend Next.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. Fast Pitch Los Angeles is one of the best start up networking events of the year. Pixelgate.net (www.pixelgate.net) - Internet Access, Web Hosting, Network Services. Advertisers.

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Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

Those are faculty members who have a commercialization idea and want help with that. There are 9 innovation nodes in the US associated with I-Corp, and one of those nodes is out of the Viterbi School of Engineering, with UCLA and Caltech partners in that. What we do, is regional customer discovery for teams, typically academic.

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Marina Del Rey Startup USC Incubator 150

Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Healthtech entrepreneur Parker Hinshaw and his wife Jean Balgrosky said they intended to take a step back when they founded Bootstrap Incubation near San Diego in the fall of 2012. We started the incubator with the idea of helping people with ideas, and making some investments,” he said. He founded MaxIT Healthcare in 2001.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We're able to help throw some gasoline on the fire, plus also help people even at the earliest stages of a business. It's difficult to add value to a portfolio company or entrepreneur. We're helping the entrepreneur, leveraging our network, introducing them to people, and helping them think about new products.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Thanks to increased performance, better battery life, improved wireless networks, and an infinite marketplace to connect developers and consumers, the shift towards mobile-only is not just a trend but a reality. Or even worse, it relies on screencasting technology that is dependent on a WiFi network. inch Full HD display.

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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.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

Despite a growing technology industry here in Southern California, local investors and entrepreneurs tell us there''s still a shortage of local, venture capital. There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. What''s the best way for entrepreneurs to approach you? Any advice you would give entrepreneurs?

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Invest Technology Startup Venture Capital 159

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

First, we’d like to thank our exhibitors, sponsors, and venue (Dave and Buster’s Westchester) for supporting the all-encompasing day of industry insights and networking. Sandra Itkoff – Entrepeneur in Residence, UCLA Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer. Let’s Talk Money.

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UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

David Carter and Allen Hurff are two startup veterans, who believe they have a new formula to help create early stage, technology companies, through their new "startup studio", Zuma Ventures (www.zumavc.com). I was then brought into a fund as an EIR, an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for Epic Ventures.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of the companies on that journey is Los Angeles-based Carbonics (www.carbonics.com), which is taking technology developed in the labs of USC and UCLA, and bringing it to use in the wireless semiconductor market. We think we are a company that will help ring in the 5G era, with high efficiency and high performance electronics.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. Entrepreneurs in LA spend a lot of time commuting up to the Valley. My biggest message is that for most this fear is overrated.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

LinkedIn is by far the world’s largest professional network with more than 380 million members in over 200 countries and territories. But it isn’t meeting the needs of everyone, leading to the creation of several sites positioning themselves as the go-to professional network for niche industries.

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Education Entertainment Class Manhattan Beach 81

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency. He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM).

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Many thanks to everyone who participated in last night’s Spotlight: LA Tech at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. In addition to the 330+ students, entrepreneurs and investors in attendance, the event also achieved over 45,000 views on the TechZulu live stream. Individual clips will be posted soon. Gold Sponsor. .

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 77

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA). I programed macros to help my mom with her Lotus 1-2-3 spreadsheets for work. I helped program my college’s recruiting office’s software system. on all the computers and established a network using Novell.

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Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

To help curate and show off the best that LA has to offer we called in a few friends. A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace.

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Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Many thanks to everyone who participated in last night’s Spotlight: LA Tech at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. In addition to the 330+ students, entrepreneurs and investors in attendance, the event also achieved over 45,000 views on the TechZulu live stream. Individual clips will be posted soon. Gold Sponsor. .

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Idealab Tech Coast Angels Startup Platform 49

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

In Spring of 2012, a former colleague at Goldman Sachs suggested she connect with David Zhu, an entrepreneur with an eccentric but compelling background (professional poker player, dropped out of MIT). Like Zach, he left UCLA to jump in with both feet. He’d just finished his third year and had built his own top-performing apps.).

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Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 106

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S. Tanz has been featured in Entrepreneur Magazine “Young Millionaires of 2011 Special Report.” Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market. from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

The final showoff's have been selected, so that brings the count to a total of 10 showoff's plus a wild card from the demo night at UCLA (full list of showoff's below). As a serial entrepreneur and Internet visionary, Richard co-founded Demand Media in May 2006, and currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer.

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Twiistup Riot Games UCLA Media 40

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

In Spring of 2012, a former colleague at Goldman Sachs suggested she connect with David Zhu, an entrepreneur with an eccentric but compelling background (professional poker player, dropped out of MIT). Like Zach, he left UCLA to jump in with both feet. He’d just finished his third year and had built his own top-performing apps.).

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Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 81

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

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. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users.

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