TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

During the days when Snapchat’s popularity was booming, investors thought the company would become the anchor for a new Los Angeles technology scene.

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MARCH 11, 2014

We have a large number of highly talented engineers and entrepreneurs now developing companies in our local market. It is not your mom’s old LA. We know the perceptions you have of our market from our past. Some were warranted – others weren’t. Buying local teams with talented engineering groups. Maker Studios. FullScreen.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Disney offered up up to $120K in investment capital, access to entrepreneurs and executives at Disney, and other resources to its startups. The Disney Accelerator said that Smart Toy was acquired by Los Angeles-based children''s product firm Cartwheel Kids, and that SnowShoe raised $2.2M in its seed funding round. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Evan Spiegel , SnapChat (Los Angeles, mobile app). event socaltech50 awards entrepreneur entrepreneurship feature dfr2013' There are also many movers and shakers here in the industry -- Jason Nazar at. Rob Reed , MomentFeed (Los Angeles/Ventura, analytics). Ophir Tanz , GumGum (Los Angeles, advertising).

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MARCH 6, 2016

I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. In 2016 I finally cracked SnapChat with the launch of Discovery. It’s hard to be discovered on SnapChat right now so I occasionally tweet my SnapChat add handle: https://www.snapchat.com/add/msuster. Frankly, it took me 2 years to get my head around SnapChat.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2014

There’s Snapchat that uses photos and then instantly disappears after 10 seconds, and then there’s the up-comer, Emojli , that uses tiny cartoonish icons for engagement. Snap Away with Snapchat. Snapchat, founded by Bobby Murphy and Evan Spiegel, boasts of its massive following among kids and teenagers.

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Tech.Co

JULY 31, 2017

Yet as an entrepreneur, you can rarely hide under the rock and pretend there’s nothing else happening around you and no one is demanding your attention. Shift to Snapchat-Styled Videos. Michael Litt recently shared how her B2B company decided to use Snapchat-style videos to engage with both her team and their customers.

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MARCH 13, 2017

Los Angeles-based Flyr , a new startup founded by Hassan Uriostegui and Brett O'Brien, the serial entrepreneur behind Viddy and Xdrive, said today that it has launched a new app which lets users create interactive, shareable videos. READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 2, 2014

But the book is a must read for entrepreneurs. I can assure you that move wasn’t a walk in the park for the board. Foursquare? Dennis Crowley and Naveen Selvadurai split. Noah Glass. Then Jack Dorsey. Then Evan Williams. Reggie Brown. And even in my own life.

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TechCrunch LA

MAY 12, 2020

Mogul Millennial : a media startup sharing professional resources for Black entrepreneurs. Earlier Yellow bets skewed more toward content investments as Snapchat was scaling Discover. Charli Cohen : a “next-gen” streetwear fashion brand. Hardworkers : a professional network for blue-collar workers. ”

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

First off, on our original article, we identified a number of people in the industry we specifically said did not qualify for the list -- because they had successfully exited companies in the past and who are proven entrepreneurs. So, how will we do this year? Interested in sponsoring the awards?

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 16, 2013

” Case in point: Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, SnapChat. I with every entrepreneur would forward that article to their favorite journalist so we could stop having this conversation of “yeah, but company so-and-so isn’t profitable!” This is certainly one Path you can take if you have the right background.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

It is fitting that 2012 is the year that Snapchat really took off in Los Angeles and raised its first venture capital and began a five year ascent to becoming LA’s most recognizable startup company and largest IPO alongside LAs other great startup brands such as Riot Games and Tinder. Are you kidding me? And this is true.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 8, 2016

According to the startup, it's able to track communication in Facebook, WhatsApp, Snapchat, Skype, Viber, Kik, WeChat and Line. Ng is a serial entrepreneur, and is best known for founding Oversee.net. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 9, 2013

The topic of the conference was “The Sharing Economy” and as I read many of the session title descriptions I realized that people would be talking more about “collaborative consumption” (think airbnb, taskrabbit, uber) than about why people are sharing more on Instragram & Snapchat.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The lesson for me, and for most LA entrepreneurs, is that this is a market which can support a huge, massive business. If you look at the fact that Snapchat is here, and so is SpaceX, I think it's still under-rated for how talented and how capable people really are here. Snapchat was able to recruit a huge talent base.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Snapchat - Snapchat--or as it calls itself now, Snap Inc.--is Fulgent Genetics - this company, led by serial entrepreneur Ming Hsieh, filed for an IPO at the beginning of September. The company has been rumored to be seeking an IPO since last year. The company has been talking with IPO bankers about a filing all year.

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JUNE 8, 2014

I don’t need to tell you what else is LA … SnapChat, Whisper, Tinder. As you have more exits in your startup community and more second-time entrepreneurs the growth of a local startup community becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. All great communication companies. KickStarter? Gilt Groupe, AdoreMe, Thrillist, Birchbox?

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JANUARY 6, 2014

And here’s an important point that I think modern entrepreneurs often forget: Investors are “co-owners” of your business. There are just as many bad entrepreneurs who do bad things. Unless you’re SnapChat, Instagram or similar this is probably 3-5 years into your existence. In the Growth Years.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Joymode lets people rent packages of products--such as giant games of Jenga, virtual reality headsets, electric scooters, Snapchat Spectacales, and everything for a backyard movie night--letting users create memories and fun without having to buy a pile of "stuff" they won't ever use again.

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socalTECH

MAY 7, 2018

We love Omar, our partner at Sequoia, who is an entrepreneur himself, and sold his last company to Google for $700M. He's a very sharp entrepreneur, and shares the same vision. Fundraising that first year, people didn't believe an immigrant entrepreneur in trucking, especially a female one, would succeed. We're hiring.

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LATechDigest

AUGUST 3, 2019

The Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC) has announced that Evan Spiegel, CEO and co-founder of Snapchat, along with CBRE and California State University, Northridge (CSUN) will be the 2015 Eddy Awards Honorees. CBRE Group, Inc.,

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JANUARY 12, 2014

The starting point of product IS marketing, which is what a lot of young entrepreneurs that never studied business don’t realize. While many tech startups do this intuitively (say, SnapChat thinking it would be much better if our photos out partying disappeared) it still happens.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Our strategy is to get into a company, sometimes early, in the A, B, or C round, in a theme or entrepreneur we really like. Something like a CrowdStrike might be worth more than a Snapchat, in the end. Then, at that point, it's all about the entrepreneur and the team. For entrepreneurs, which areas are you most interested now?

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JANUARY 22, 2014

Most entrepreneurs I encounter seem to make their decisions more on perceived brand, past successes and ability to intro. Nothing blows up great opportunities faster than founders who are constantly fighting. And let’s be clear – in almost every company there is executive management fighting. FourSquare. Everywhere.

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JULY 23, 2016

I think it’s mostly because when I see local companies (Snapchat, Tinder, DSC, Scopely, Honest Company) that I didn’t invest in do great I’m mostly happy for them more than bitter about missing out. In his post he says: I’m not an eCommerce expert enough to critique but his outline sounds sensible to me.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 14, 2019

Ultimately, these types of entertainments aren’t going to go away — at least according to the investors and entrepreneurs who are creating the companies that are building them. We always tell stories and have characters in whatever medium are available to us [like] Instagram and Snapchat and YouTube and Twitter.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 21, 2014

The event kicked off with the Opening Ceremony, which featured a talk from Quixey , the main sponsor of the event, and a special keynote speech from SnapChat founder and CEO Evan Spiegel. Both encouraged students to build great things, solve big problems, and change the world. People new to programming also got a chance to learn at LA Hacks.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

I speak a lot on college campuses and entrepreneur events and amongst the most common things I’m asked to talk about are: What do VCs fund? Hard Problems I encourage entrepreneurs to try and tackle harder problems even if it makes fund raising more difficult and is less likely to succeed.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 27, 2013

17, entrepreneurs, investors, civic leaders and other key players in the tech industry will gather at the historic Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, Calif. Be Great Partners will unite these celebrities, civic leaders, talent, entrepreneurs and investors for one night only at Be Great Fest at the Pacific Design Center on Sept.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

Right now, when people are communicating using Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and others, those businesses are principally using display advertising and sponsored listings to monetize those users. As a serial entrepreneur, what are you doing differently this time based on what you learned from your prior ventures?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 29, 2014

For example, if you are watching the World Cup streaming from ESPN or your favorite WB show, you can grab your favorite moments and share them across any medium, whether that''s a chat platform, Snapchat, or anywhere. We''re also backed by the Entrepreneurs'' Roundtable in New York. Is your product available yet? Why are you in LA?

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JUNE 17, 2017

Or you know the other one — the one where Snapchat lost $2 billion in just one quarter. I often ask entrepreneurs to consider, “What’s your objective? Two-f **g-billion! What a disaster! Except that they didn’t actually lose $2 billion in cash. Thus the trade off between profits & growth.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Phillipe Browning , SnapChat. Julien Bellanger , Prevoty. Chad Billmeyer , Panjo. Mike Bonin , Council Member, City of Los Angeles. Daniel and Michael Broukhim , FabFitFun. Howard Brown , RingDNA. Brent Bushnell , Two Bit Circus. Cavan Canavan , FocusMotion. Damir Davidovic , NeoGov. Chris Davis , LootCrate. Joe Devon , CTO Mixers.

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LATechDigest

MAY 16, 2016

SNAPCHAT Expands into New Offices at Santa Monica Airport ( link ). Rhubarb Hosted Entrepreneur Journeys. Here’s what’s new in LA’s tech space: Behind the Scenes at SMASHD LABS , Open for Accelerator Submissions ( link ). HYPERLOOP ONE Raises $80M Series B, Launches Test Track ( link ).

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2015

I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm for our sector. For entrepreneurs there’s too much money sloshing around. And it’s true that I still take a whole lot of first meetings with entrepreneurs.

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socalTECH

MARCH 16, 2017

What I am trying to provide to entrepreneurs, and what I am trying to position and market this to for the entire community, and what eventually delivers on what we've done with our advisory business, is to apply all of our corporate relationships, across tech, media, and Internet companies. We have a very entrepreneurial LP base.

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