SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 A Different Kind of Incubator - The Hive I recently met with The Hive a new incubator in Orange County. What I really liked in my conversations with The Hive is that they are willing to work with and fund ventures that would never get VC dollars.

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Incubator CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The firm, which did not disclose financial details of the investment, said the digital media fund established by Best Buy and Fuse Capital are backing its launch of a product information, pricing, and shopping mobile application. Fuse said that Tecca was incubated from within the firm. READ MORE>>.

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Services Santa Monica Google Incubator 188

Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Even the homework is easier, with free access to more opportunity details and competitor data on your mobile device from anywhere in the world. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media News 104

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The service--currently only available on iPhone and Android--allows users to find reviews and information about consumer electronics products. We caught up with Mickie Rosen , the firm's CEO, about the company, its links to Best Buy, and how it was incubated out of Fuse Capital. What was behind that decision?

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Incubator Startup Web Technical Review 239

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 31, 2021

These are industries where structural impediments to technology adoption have only recently been broken down by the advent of incredibly powerful mobile devices. “It would present a huge opportunity for a variety of climate tech sectors, ranging from clean electricity to carbon management to vehicle electrification.”

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Startup Technical Review Invest Research 229

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.

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Startup Develop Development Incubator 79

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? The event will feature a panel of some of SoCal’s brightest entrepreneurs who have received funding from TechStars, Y Combinator, 500 Startups, and Idealab and will be moderated by upStart.LA’s Co-Founder, Dan Dato.

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Incubator Santa Monica Idealab Social Media 64

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 20, 2019

I believe the days of the “job work” mentality are thankfully waning, with more people looking to get satisfaction by making the world a better place, rather than just tolerating brain-numbing work to fund enjoyment elsewhere. Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever. Women are a growing force as entrepreneurs.

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Startup Social Media Satisfaction Entrepreneur 128

socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2012

Today, we're featuring Erik Rannala , founder of MuckerLab , the startup accelerator focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world this year?

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Even the homework is easier, with free access to more opportunity details and competitor data on your mobile device from anywhere in the world. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

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Tips Startup Social Media News 161

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.

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Incubator San Diego Technical Review Development Team Review 212

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 23, 2012

There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.

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Venture Capital Capital Technical Review Startup 347

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Newly launched Crash is hoping to help solve that problem, by surfacing "photo-worthy" locations around you in its mobile app--sourced from its users. It's unbelievably fund, and as we've been expanding into new cities, I feel like I'm becoming a tourism expert in all of those cities. I was their VP of Product.

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Idealab Startup Incubator Mobile 245

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Mobile first is becoming an important part of our daily lives. We interact with the world through our mobile devices, and they are quickly becoming our main vehicles for accessing and sharing information. Hence the emergence of Source13, a new mobile conference produced by Flurry. How do you discover the right people to follow?

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Mobile Technical Review Platform Startup 71

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Thinking about applying to or ever wondered what its like taking part of an accelerator or incubation program? The event will feature a panel of some of SoCal’s brightest entrepreneurs who have received funding from TechStars, Y Combinator, 500 Startups, and Idealab and will be moderated by upStart.LA’s Co-Founder, Dan Dato.

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Incubator Santa Monica Idealab Social Media 40

socalTECH

APRIL 24, 2017

The accelerator said it has added Animate Objects (AR/VR technology); RentSpree (apartment rental applications); Tapp That App (mobile app discovery); Ca$het (product placement in TV shows and movies); and Swoppit (social marketplace for fashion) to the program.

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Class Santa Monica Mobile Startup 133

socalTECH

APRIL 22, 2016

funding round this week for its mobile gifting app. Jason Reid: Giftagram is a mobile first company, that really redefines the way people gift. What is unique about our mobile app, is you can send a physical gift without actually having a physical address to send it to. How does Giftagram work?

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Mobile Platform Commerce Class 100

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : AngelList is the productization of raising startup funding. AngelList is the productization of that. These days, thanks to code and community, we can productize almost any process done by humans. We are productizing the raising of capital for startups. ”. That is the great constant.”.

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Startup Software Review Summary Technical Review 273

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. You need to say “no” faster to things you know you’re not going to fund based on fit, focus, geography, quality of concept, conflicts with portfolio. Play the long game.

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Startup Technical Review Venture Capital Email 317

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

million in seed funding to begin building a manufacturing facility and expand its presence in Los Angeles as the city continues to grow as a hub for robotics and automation. . Elementary Robotics has raised $3.6 Barnehama was tight-lipped about the specifics of the technology that Elementary is using for its robotic stack.

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Los Angeles Angel Artificial Inteligence CalTech 207

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Rustic Canyon is an LA-based, but geography-agnostic VC that is currently investing from a $200 million fund. They were originally founded inside of Times Mirror and had a huge string of major investment success before spinning out as a fully independent fund. Boku and Zong focus mostly on mobile payments for virtual goods.

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Venture Capital Capital Rustic Canyon Mobile 270

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Science is looking to incubate its own set of companies, make investments, and otherwise work to create the next successful startups. Mike Jones: Coming out of Myspace, I looked at both operational roles and joining a venture fund. There will also be lots of mobile products. What is Science?

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Incubator Startup Commerce Los Angeles 196

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. You're funded, correct? How did the incubation part come about? What's the next big thing for you?

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Clearstone Incubator HTML Twiistup 124

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Atlas Powered has raised $700k from Tech Coast Angels, Maverick Angels, Pasadena Angels, Angel Capital Entrepreneur Fund, LaunchpadLA, and Clark Landry. The product integrates with Salesforce, Twitter, Zendesk and many other popular SaaS products. . · YieldMetrics has already raised $1.7

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GRP Partners Startup Tech Coast Angels Bertelsmann 96

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2012

There's been a sudden surge in accelerator in Southern California, looking to help get startups off the ground and funded. We have refind our thesis around why mobile is so special, and how it ties into location, and have spent two years working on precise, location targeted ads in the industry. But, do they really help?

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Startup Acquisition Doc Ideas 225

socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

I helped them raise a few rounds of funding, ran their European operations. I've also worked with startups in Southern California, including TouchCommerce, and I was with them when they were on their first round of funding. The incubator isn't really as focused, and sometime might be more focused on low cost space.

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Startup Mentor Southern California Incubator 221

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.

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Tech Coast Angels Startup Angel Southern California 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 19, 2015

I believe the days of the “job work” mentality are thankfully waning, with more people looking to get satisfaction by making the world a better place, rather than just tolerating brain-numbing work to fund enjoyment elsewhere. Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever. Women are a growing force as entrepreneurs.

Startup 108

Startup Social Media Entrepreneur Satisfaction 108

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 21, 2018

I believe the days of the “job work” mentality are thankfully waning, with more people looking to get satisfaction by making the world a better place, rather than just tolerating brain-numbing work to fund enjoyment elsewhere. Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever. Women are a growing force as entrepreneurs.

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Entrepreneur Startup Social Media Satisfaction 66

Both Sides of the Table

JULY 1, 2010

The consumer product they’ve created is called TrueCar. But more importantly we talked in the video about fund raising and how Scott has become so efficient at it. -Currently has 1.8mm users and adding about 15,000 users/day. Money to be used for hiring and additional product development. Competitors: Gowalla.

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Zag Truecar Venture Capital CarsDirect 248

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 21, 2013

ChowNow , the turnkey interactive food ordering platform, just raised $3 million in additional funding to launch new products and expand national operations. Funds were contributed by returning investor GRP Partners along with Double M Capitol, Karlin Ventures, LaunchPad LA and Daher Capitol, all local investors.

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GRP Partners Email Incubator Platform 73

Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 26, 2013

I believe the days of the “job work” mentality are thankfully waning, with more people looking to get satisfaction by making the world a better place, rather than just tolerating brain-numbing work to fund enjoyment elsewhere. Funding for early-stage startups is more available than ever. Women are a growing force as entrepreneurs.

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Startup Entrepreneur Social Media Satisfaction 109

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2013

Entrepreneurs will also be able to communicate with the Bloggerati and showcase their products to the world. According to Snodgrass, SGL wants to deliver products and services that can quickly help entrepreneurs get the attention, and funding they need and have been overwhelmed with mentor, Angels, and VC requests since launch and to date.

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Google Technical Review Press Software Review 87

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

Today, the conversation on Cleantech with a panel of entreprenurs, doing work as local VC’s, university, incubators, and startups. Ian Harris - VP of Partnerships, LA Cleantech Incubator. Ian Harris, VP of local Cleantech incubator believes ‘Cleantech’ is now more a political term than a technological definition.

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UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

Tech.Co

MARCH 8, 2018

Fortunately, for those headed to SXSW, Startup Night SXSW 2018 , presented by the Kauffman Foundation and TechCo, will be filled with investors from a multitude of industries who are looking to discover and fund startups building the latest solutions and tech innovations. Thomas Flake, Founder of PTI Incubator & Founder of bcause.

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Technical Review Startup Software Review Entrepreneur 70

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Even the homework is easier, with free access to more opportunity details and competitor data on your mobile device from anywhere in the world. Building a minimum viable product, with customer validation. Building your public image and presence should start even before product development, through your website, logo, and blogging.

Startup 61

Startup Social Media News Tool 61

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. Nineteen of the twenty three companies were funded, and at this point, nine out of 23 have actually been acquired. You need to build that minimum viable product.

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