Steve Reich

MARCH 23, 2012

More than 150 MIT alums gathered Wednesday night for a discussion of incubators/accelerators. Appropriately enough, ­­­we gathered in the about-to-open Synergy Business and Technology Center, Santa Barbara’s latest incubator. Only one controversial topic emerged—the portion of a company’s equity bought by some accelerators.

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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. We are in Orange County, but we're also focused more largely on Southern California.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 24, 2016

To meet these needs are emergent alternative accelerators, incubators and preccelerator models. The next Mobile LAVA will present some of these different equity partners available to start-ups in today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape. See [link] (more)

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 17, 2016

To meet these needs are emergent alternative accelerators, incubators and preccelerator models. The next Mobile LAVA will present some of these different equity partners available to start-ups in today’s rapidly evolving tech landscape. See [link] (more)

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 11, 2010

I once mentioned this idea to a fellow SoCal VC when I told him I wanted a CIC in LA and he said, “Co-location is dead. These kinds of office space arrangement are often called “technology incubators&# or “startup labs&# or something similar. Anyone have positive or negative experience in such an incubator?

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TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The startup has already secured a seed investment from Maveron and CRV, TechCrunch has learned, and will receive another $150,000 in exchange for 7% equity upon entering YC next year. million Series A led by Puma Private Equity, a U.K.-focused The business has attracted about $4.5 million in funding to date, including a recent $3.6

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 10, 2009

One of the industries which has seen a lot of activity lately in Southern California is clean technology, with a large amount of investment activity and new company formation. Nikhil Jain: We already have a list of deals, from Southern California, the rest of the U.S., Let's start with an overview of Clean Green Guy.

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Steve Reich

MARCH 30, 2012

As you may have gathered from my blog, I’ve spent the last couple of months visiting with companies and incubators. 20k from StartEngine, and a lot of sweat equity from the founders. If you don’t want to be roadkill, go to an incubator/accelerator and take a tour or spend some time with a twenty-something founder.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

The panel is comprised of Southern California’s Top VC’s, Angels, and Startup Accelerator founders. Mike has over 18 years of strategic, operational and senior management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity backed assets and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

It provides tools like the Equity Calculator and curates and vets vendors that service startups. CoFoundersLab has gained ground quickly creating partnerships with entrepreneurial programs at Ivy League universities, top incubators and accelerators, and investors.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? What was the best one you’ve been to recently?

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

Bricault was the founder of The Mailroom Fund, which was focused on early stage investments in Southern California digital media, and prior to that spent significant time at William Morris Agency. We sat down with Paul to learn a bit more about the program at Amplfify. Can you tell us a little bit about the basics behind the program?

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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. Mike Jones , Investor and Advisor Located In Los Angeles. Dinesh earned his B.S. in Computer Science and his MBA from UC Irvine.

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SoCal Delicious

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Like any accelerator or incubator, companies and teams must be selected before being admitted to the Stubbs Alderton & Markiles Precelerator, but in a unique twist, the firm will not take anything in return for their participation, including equity or a guarantee of legal representation.

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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. the startup scene really is booming in la! continuity of quality of startups will be key!

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Coworking Spaces - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , September 2, 2010 I've never been much of a fan of incubators. Betaworks is more than an incubator, but they have shown that they can make the incubation model work with projects like bit.ly CompStudy 2008 Report on Equity and Cash Compensation at Technology Startups.

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