socalTECH

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

A couple of weeks ago, twelve companies moved into the new downtown San Diego, EvoNexus incubator--which is run by CommNexus. Kevin Hell: What makes EvoNexus unique, is that it is--as far as we know--the only completely free, no-strings-attached incubator in the nation. Once they pass that, they get into the incubator.

Incubator 212

Incubator San Diego Technical Review Development Team Review 212

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 18, 2021

Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative a while back. Business equity investors are buying a portion of your business, so they are looking to fund a specific business with a specific offering, not a generic technology. Commercial product prototypes.

Help 165

Help Research Startup Funding 165

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.

Startup 79

Startup Develop Development Incubator 79

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. The event kicked off with a few words from CEO Evan Spiegel and soon transitioned into a succession of live-streamed pitches from the 10 startups in Yellow’s latest batch.

Invest 237

Invest Startup Artificial Inteligence Class 237

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

Funding sources for this stage extend from grants to large private fund incubators, such as the IBM Watson initiative. Business equity investors are buying a portion of your business, so they are looking to fund a specific business with a specific offering, not a generic technology. Commercial product prototypes.

Develop 102

Develop Development Product Funding 102

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 12, 2013

See how many you have personally experienced already, or are currently mentioned in your business plan: Crowd-sourcing equity. Sites like KickStarter have for years offered rewards and pre-sales for crowd investments, but real equity won’t be legalized until sometime this year for people other than accredited investors.

Entrepreneur 109

Entrepreneur Startup Web Equity 109

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. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets.

Tech Coast Angels 105

Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Zong – mobile payments has been a very hot area over the past couple of years with the success and growth of both Boku and Zong. Boku and Zong focus mostly on mobile payments for virtual goods. It has proven a very successful strategy to get consumers to activate the payment on their mobile phone bill. VC Financings: 1.

Venture Capital 270

Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

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. Are there specific kinds of companies you're hoping to see in the incubator?

Orange County 192

Orange County Southern California Startup Class 192

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. Before we started this thing, we spent three months traveling around to accelerators around the country, in Cincinnati, Austin, San Francisco, Waterloo, and Vancouver, Canada, and New York City.

Startup 254

Startup Los Angeles Entrepreneur Media 254

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2012

For two years, it was a mentorship program, that worked with twenty three different companies, but did not have a fund, did not have an office, and didn't take any equity. They may or may not have a full time marketing person, or a mobile development person, as the case may be. We were founded in 2009 by Mark Suster from GRP Partners.

Class 261

Class Mentor Startup Santa Monica 261

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. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets.

Tech Coast Angels 96

Tech Coast Angels Idealab Angel Startup 96

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Participating companies get between $4,000 and $8,000 in addition to mentorship and office space while participating in the 12 week program, and have to give up zero equity in exchange. Play In Motion – Play In Motion is developing a social mobile location-based platform for casual gaming. the startup scene really is booming in la!

UCLA 47

UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Entrepreneurism / Monetization Apps, content, mobile. . Web and mobile technology have developed differently in Japan than any other country with hardware, Entrepreneurism / Monetization business, japan, Localization. . Beyond the Hype: Mobile App Opportunities In Africa.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. It’s no big surprise that I spend a larger portion of my time in LA working on: disruption of television, performance-based marketing, games & mobile.

Venture Capital 317

Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317