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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Helping entrepreneurs succeed. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors. Silicon Valley Bank (www.svb.com).

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Caradoc Ehrenhalt: My last corporate job was in new revenue models at Avery Dennison, which makes products like labels, binders, and highlighter pens. My background has always been inventing products, and have several patents, and I have a passion for bringing new things to life, making partnerships, like the one with Sumitomo.

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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Brian Mac Mahon is a serial entrepreneur and investor and has owned companies in over 35 countries. Their patented 12 step accelerator is unlike any other program available and gives direct access to specialists in branding, design, business planning, product fit, strategic planning, web development, growth hacking and so much more.

Southern California 113

Southern California Technical Review Santa Monica Invest 113

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AUGUST 18, 2017

We talked with CEO Marcus Filipovich to learn more about the company and its product. Marcus Filipovich: Our other founder, Ron Waldorf, is a serial entrepreneur, primarily in the medical business. Finally, for other entrepreneurs reading this, what's your biggest advice to them? What does Ocular Data Systems do?

Pasadena Angels 100

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AUGUST 8, 2012

Santa Monica-based Fundable (www.fundable.com) is a newly launched, crowdfunding site which is headed by local entrepreneur Wil Shroter. Dolgoff has a fascinating background--he invented the first LCD projector, he helped inspire Star Trek's Holodeck, and he also is a serial entrepreneur who took his company public on the NASDAQ in the 90's.

Startup 252

Startup Sites Patents Outsource Development 252

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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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Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

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JANUARY 18, 2019

Caradoc Ehrenhalt: My last corporate job was in new revenue models at Avery Dennison, which makes products like labels, binders, and highlighter pens. My background has always been inventing products, and have several patents, and I have a passion for bringing new things to life, making partnerships, like the one with Sumitomo Electric.

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DECEMBER 28, 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've also invented and patented a new technology called "MasterKey" that allows people to play our games natively on all relevant social and mobile platforms.

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Technical Review Southern California Incubator High Tech 223

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MARCH 31, 2014

Bitvore is based in Irvine, and is backed by serial entrepreneur Yuri Pikover, as well as other angels. There are lots of products that might look for any mention of a product name or company name, and yes, we do that--but more importantly, we are also analyzing situations that arise. It''s designed for business people.

Orange County 245

Orange County Startup News IBM 245

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APRIL 8, 2014

The notion there is not only would be investing in the venture aspect of the business, but would help tilt the company to success by bringing shared services to help bring their products to life. We feel that we can really help with manufacturing and bringing products to market. Gerard Casale: Traction is one of the big items.

Seed Funding 220

Seed Funding Santa Monica Funding Startup 220

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JULY 25, 2016

Our interview with a startup entrepreneur this morning is with Avantika Shahi , the founder and CEO of Haus (www.grademyhaus.com), a new Los Angeles startup hoping to create a new way for people to search for homes. Where are you in terms of product? Our strategy is to crate a product that is a little different.

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MARCH 28, 2014

Asher Delug: We have had amazing growth coming from our smart wall product, our inter-app interstitial ad product, which patent pending. Plus, our In-App Banner Apps product has also been scaling very fast. Asher Delug: We''ve been very product focused, and focused on innovation since inception. READ MORE>>.

Startup 196

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MARCH 15, 2013

We build mobile products, not just mobile applications, but products around them. We have a couple of different ideas in the pipeline, and have filed patents in our unique way of showing advertising on a very small screen. We have four guys who have come up with the products we have, which is pretty remarkable.

Mobile 233

Mobile Southern California Startup Outsource Development 233

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Where is the product now? Nikhil Jain: We plan on doing our product launch in Q2 of 2017. A lot of our partners liked that, because the product we are making with them is going to available to the mass market, in an easy-to-use manner. That's the entire premise of the idea. It's not accessible to consumers at this time.

Idealab 173

Idealab Artificial Inteligence Startup Ideas 173

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Once you go in and make the purchase from us, then you set up your NetPlenishment on that product. So does this work for any consumer product? Dave Compton: Any consumable product. Tags: startup retail ecommerce netplenish entrepreneur compton dave. It might say CVS is number one, Walgreen.com is number two. READ MORE>>.

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Compton Ventura Startup IP 138

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We build products and services tied to mobile carriers. Those technologies allow us to scale and offer a superior product for customers. In 2004 and 2005, I was at DivX in San Diego, and I was head of product there. For the first three years, it was all about research and development, building IP and patents and so forth.

Content 113

Content Startup Mobile Platform 113

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JANUARY 28, 2009

When we got funded, we worked harder to put together a product which was longer lasting, and not just a beta attempt like what we had done before. We filed for a patent in 2000, but in 2001, when we filed for the final patent, the market tanked. Kent also went off to other things, but in 2005 we got awarded that patent.

Patents 179

Patents CarsDirect Sites Pomona 179

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Program head Robert Jadon describes Startup UCLA as more of a pre-accelerator than anything, meaning the the ideas are typically earlier stage and the entrepreneurs less experienced. PuddleWorks – PuddleWorks is developing interactive mobile games and leveraging these products and capabilities to develop a powerful franchise.

UCLA 47

UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Every price comparison out there, whether that's Google Products, Bizrate, or other sites, can find books, but you can only do it one at a time. Had you thought you'd be an entrepreneur when you were in college? Anytime a student buys a book or product, the club or organization is able to raise some money from that purchase.

UCSD 185

UCSD Course Startup Sites 185

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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

One of the big things about Telesign, and if you go back to the founders, and the things they did well before I got here, is they spent lots of time and effort around writing patents and protecting their IP. In 2011, we had two of our patents approved. One was for our PhoneID product, which is extremely important to us.

Marina Del Rey 238

Marina Del Rey Startup IP Examples 238

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FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Richard Yen: The first thing I look for, is something unique in the product or service--not a me-too. One thing I like to look for is some barrier to entry, whether that is technology, or partners, or great entrepreneurs who understand the space. What we are looking for, first and foremost, is the right entrepreneur.

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Ideas Entrepreneur Invest 100

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JUNE 16, 2010

My partner and I, Cliff Elion, have a patent pending neck technology, which enables the guitar to be made at a very accessible price point, and also have probably more functionality and connectivity than any device in history. What we found, in taking our product to the MTV awards, is our product is game changer.

Orange County 244

Orange County Startup Slides Paramount 244

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FEBRUARY 27, 2009

We spoke with Dipanshu Sharma, Chairman of the firm, to learn more about the company and its products. What we want to do is solve that problem, and build the first, live project and product collaboration tool. So we built this product, and we believe we're the first ones to have it in the market.

Startup 100

Startup Software Review Technical Review Software 100

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APRIL 26, 2011

Los Angeles area entrepreneurs, investors, and startups have gotten to know Paige Craig fairly well over the last few years, as he's made many investments in the local ecosystem. There's a fairly complex platform we've patented. At the same time, to make all that complexity work, we had to make it simple.

Startup 216

Startup Technical Review Software Review Platform 216

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AUGUST 18, 2009

We're doing our development in El Monte, and we think we'll be operational by the beginning of next year, and full scale by the end of 2010, with product launch in 2011. About a year later, we recognized that it was very important to also have the patent, and Dina joined us. We hopefully will have our first production year in 2011.

UCLA 159

UCLA Technical Review El Monte Startup 159

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JUNE 23, 2011

Ryan is a serial entrepreneur, having previously co-founded email marketer NetCreations, and also has been an angel investor in local startups. First, for those not familiar with CauseCast, what is the company all about? The way CauseCast helps do this, is through technology to help engage people around causes and campaigns.

Causecast 222

Causecast Startup Content Education 222

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JULY 29, 2009

We have patents filed on this process. One of our hopes, aside from creating a way to package knowledge, is to essentially allow entrepreneurs to create their own publishing company. Tags: startup author entrepreneur interview genie knowledge sindell milo. Can you talk about the pricing and how the business model works?

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Geni Web Guide Platform 100

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JULY 15, 2009

Our goal was to take those observations, and subsequent research, and turn that into commercial products. The sort of support mechanisms and networks in place really are about pharmaceuticals, biomedical, and patents. Tags: entrepreneur startup networking social twitter irvine patterson ruan george quub itnerview.

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Startup Research UCI Social Network 100