socalTECH
DECEMBER 17, 2013
Los Angeles-based Laudville , a startup developing an online platform to help users share entertainment like movies, books, TV, and music with friends, has added Gene Chuang to its board of advisors, according to the firm. Chuang is currently Chief Technology Officer at Oversee.net,and also has served at such companies as Yahoo!
socalTECH
JANUARY 7, 2019
With Startup Boost, we had dozens of investors, service providers, successful entrepreneurs, and major industry leaders (including Microsoft, Google, Softbank, REME, and TechStars) coalesce around our initiative to help early stage companies get to the next level. Yet they turned-out each and every week of our six-week programs.
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socalTECH
JUNE 6, 2011
Those programs--epitomized by YCombinator in the Bay Area, and TechStars in Boulder, Colorado--attract newly minted entrepreneurs with a mixture of cash and mentoring, and a program which rapidly takes ideas and turns them into viable, executing businesses. Those mentors are not just Bruce and I, although we are full time on this.
socalTECH
DECEMBER 22, 2016
Today, we have Cody Simms , Executive Director of Techstars (www.techstars.org), which has been very active this year in the startup accelerator and mentoring area. This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on the year from Southern California's technology community. What was the biggest news from you or your firm this year?
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 22, 2011
I sure wish the founders of Yahoo! But for years Yahoo! He has built an amazing facility, has established a design-centric credo, has assembled great mentors and certainly gets access to great talent. He said, “The reason I needed to go was the I believe that you either lead, follow or get the fuck out of the way.
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area. We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites. We have some great mentors now. People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 27, 2014
Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo!, You have to decide how hard to help with downstream marketing for your deals. A little Groucho Marx always helps. Motives matter.
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