Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 29, 2010

I started the series talking about what I consider the most important attribute of an entrepreneur : Tenacity. Think Yelp doesn’t wake up daily thinking about how to crush FourSquare? We were considering funding one of the players in the category – call them Company A. The list is getting quite long.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

Twiistup is just 2 weeks away and there have been a whole slew of announcements within these past few days. And now what you have all been waiting for.the TechZulu Twiistup discount. You folks are just that awesome that we try and hook our readers up whenever we can so you are Welcome! Twiistup 007 Speaker List: Peter Guber.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Coming hot off the coat tail of earlier this year’s Startup Weekend LA where Zaarly launched, this LASW was nothing less than amazing and as someone put, one of the best tech events in LA they had ever been to. With the pitching energy escalating in the room, regular pitches began short after.

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socalTECH

JULY 31, 2009

According to Sacks, the entire firm--including its engineering team and executive staff--is moving to the Bay Area, to be closer to the startup scene in Silicon Valley. The firm was spun out in September 2008 from Geni, and is backed by Charles River Ventures and the Founders Fund. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2011

One of Urbandig's co-founders, Mike Macadaan -- the former VP of User Experience at MySpace, and creator of the technology conference Twiistup--sat down to talk to us about the company. There are lots of knowledgeable people that we find to write these guides--people who grew up there, and who are experts in the area.

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Jason Nazar

MARCH 22, 2011

I recently hosted a panel at the Twiistup Conference about LA tech companies. But I thought I’d take some more time here to expand on what I think are the challenges, and opportunities, of starting a tech company in LA. Challenge #1 – Tech Companies are Not Typically Started by Technologists.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

A few weeks ago, Rahul Sonnad --a serial entrepreneur who is best known for founding and selling thePlatform to Comcast--alternately confused and dazzled attendees at Twiistup, the Los Angeles tech conference, with a fake-stilted-Indian-immigrant and ukulele-singing-and-dancing studded pitch for his firm, Geodelic (www.geodelic.com).

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Chang is looking to open up two to three more similar spaces in the next year. The existing space on Wilshire is heavily used by meetups, business networking groups, as well as local startups, and we thought we'd talk with Jerome to better understand what the whole idea is behind the space and coworking.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. Francisco Dao came up with the idea of letting 10 companies that weren’t selected for Twiistup to do a presentation the night before to a group of people and let the audience pick one company to win the final slot at Twiistup.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2011

Former Twiistup 8 Showoff ( Click here to view their pitch and our review) and local Los Angeles Startup Nevolution , the startup that insists Mac, mobile phone and tablet users shouldn’t have all the fun when it comes to acquiring great software – has closed a $450,000 angel round to gear up for the launch of its Avenue(TM) Windows App (..)

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

At the Twiistup panel last week, there was a debate over whether big companies could be created here, which is ridiculous--Demand Media is the latest example there, we've got Cornerstone OnDemand coming out soon, and there is no question there are market leading, large revenue companies coming out of Southern California. That's part one.

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