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AUGUST 12, 2014

has figured out one way -- which is to run a startup accelerator, Warner Media Camp (www.mediacamp.com)--which pulls a class of startups into the company for an intense, twelve week program every year, and helps those companies tap into the resources of the studio. Warner Bros. What''s your big goal for the program? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. Professional investors now look for startups through popular online platforms, including Gust and InvestorHunt.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

For today's interview, we spoke to Dave Eastman, the Director of the Viterbi Startup Garage, a startup incubator that is run by the University of Southern California, out of its location in Marina Del Rey. How are you different from other startup incubators, etc? It's not entirely exclusive, however.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 4, 2013

The space will be that platform for entrepreneurs in the wearable industry to engage, learn and connect with the global Wearable Technology ecosystem. Wearable World brings all aspects of our business offerings together nicely under one overarching umbrella, including GLAZED Conferences, WeCodeWe, Wearable Wednesdays and the Incubator.”

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

What's the difference between an incubator, Maker space, and other accelerators and what you do? Noramay Cadena: People often compare us to incubators, but the biggest difference is that in an incubator, you are incubating technology. We invest financially, with our time, hands-on-mentorship, and resources.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Earlier this year, Embodied announced a $22 million round for its personal robotics platform focused on healthcare and wellness, while InVia Robotics collected $20 million for its own take on the robotics industry. Elementary Robotics has raised $3.6 So we’re excited to be building this company in LA.” ”

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

When we think of our neighbors to the North in Canada, we think of bountiful natural resources, open land, and flannel shirts; we don’t necessarily think of tech. The major cities are dominated by industries such as oil, resource exporting, and politics. Same space, different spin.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2013

It''s more about connecting then with customer, than BloomNation sending orders through the platform. From there, we actually joined the Muckerlab incubator, and essentially have been growing florists on the supply side. I have such respect for other platforms and technology. How long has the service been available?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 29, 2020

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2012

whereas in Los Angeles, there's sort of a paucity of those kinds of resources. Lots of accelerators are a work in progress, and they've just started talking to people to bring on resources to help out. You can also find help with coding, programming, someone to help check out wireframes, consulting, help with capital advisors, etc.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 16, 2013

s own backyard into one central online hub, rich with all the resources and information that L.A. Maria Katris, the CEO of Built In believes the directory will be an invaluable research resource for the community. It is very much a sharing, learning, promoting platform for the community.”. has to offer startups. tech culture.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Take accountability for execution by enabling success through resources, attention, and care. Keep your eyes and mind open to free sources of innovation in every ecosystem, including open-source software, university cooperative programs, and the many incubators and accelerators supported by volunteers and communities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 6, 2020

Potential resources available to entrepreneurs are enormous, but often under-utilized. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2012

An actual telephone number is not the scarce resource in our supply chain. I was also very involved in the strategy on Yahoo's Brickhouse incubation effort. I also helped develop FireEagle, which was arguably the first location platform for checkin. We made lots of innovations in the user information and social identity realm.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Incubator: Amplify LA. Fun Fact: Their latest investment was into LA-based Daqri – the augmented reality platform that has been used for campaigns with Cadillac and MAXIM Magazine. E-Commerce: Nasty Gal.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2013

a crowd-powered platform that gives accredited investors access to exclusive deal flow and technology transfer opportunities has launched in beta its crowd-powered portal for startups, JumpStartFund. How its online incubation works. El Segundo, CA based JumpStarter Inc.,

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This was a big year for Crosscut because were finally delivering on our promise of implementing a full-scale investing platform after 11+ years in business. Growing our practice from 3 original partners who would meet at coffee shops into a full institutional investing platform is a constant evolution.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

The platform enhances the process of turning ideas into entrepreneurial ventures and growing startups through social collaboration. 2) How can we leverage resources as a community (by community, I mean a global community of people with different talents and interests) to help entrepreneurs grow their startups? We are getting there.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Excellent detailed resources are everywhere, including a classic book, “ The Startup Checklist ,” by serial entrepreneur and founder of the New York Angels, David S. Fundraising through online platforms and crowdfunding. Professional investors now look for startups through popular online platforms, including Gust and InvestorHunt.

Entrepreneur 104

Entrepreneur Startup Social Media News 104

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

Potential resources available to entrepreneurs are enormous, but often under-utilized. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors. Entrepreneurs should be monitoring online curator platforms and blogs.

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 112

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 21, 2023

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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socalTECH

MARCH 8, 2016

Brendon McQueen: The idea behind the platform, is that over 70 percent of college graduates today have college loans. I eventually ended up here in 2012, where the company came out of an incubator here called Launchpad LA. Brendon McQueen: We just saw the kind of impact this platform could have on the larger, studen tloan crisis.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Prizes vary from competition to competition including, credit for co-working spaces, free hosting accounts, gift cards, scholarships to incubators and at times even nothing more than just bragging rights. “Every little bit of funding at the start helps,” says John Junyszek of Spawnd , a social platform for video game players.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

I wanted to connect LA’s incredible entrepreneurs with the larger business community and with the resources of USC.”. Sellbot, an e-commerce platform for sellers made by USC graduates Michael and Payam Ahdoot, took home the grand prize of $25,000. Sellbot helps online sellers sell through multiple platforms.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

That said, YouTube Network Fullscreen platform is blazing this new trail with 2.5 ” She is redefining how business is taught and using her personal online platform apart from a designated channel platform to do so. Online content isn’t a small market, nor is it going away anytime soon. Same with CreatorUp.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Please join us in congratulating this quarter’s Spotlight companies: Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more. CitySourced is a real time mobile civic engagement platform.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 8, 2018

Dave Fink: Postie is a building a technology platform with a mission of making direct mail marketing behave as easily and dynamically as your favorite, programmatic channels. We had to find other, more diverse ways to allocate our resources and grow businesses. Photo: Dave Fink on left, Jonathan Neddenriep on right. What is Postie?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 25, 2015

What we realized, is that using a platform like the Dodgers to validate those products, and at the same time, solve some of our own problems, made a lot of sense. With the background of our ownership group, and their interest in putting capital to use and our resources to work, we saw the opportunity to create strategic partnerships.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

We are creating a platform that enables users to play instant games and apps directly on the computer desktop. 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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. daqri is an augmented reality and mobile web content publishing platform that utilizes QR codes to deliver content.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Bedloo is a social media voting platform for those who want to find the right answer in life. We are power users and we are constantly trying to redefine platforms we are frustrated with. That is how Todd and I met, from all the talk of using platforms that frustrates us. Since Bedloo is a social media voting platform.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. Are you going to do all of this? Who’s in?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 18, 2013

MuckerLab has already secured its reputation as one of the hottest startup accelerators in town with a particular emphasis on product for incubation-stage software, services and media ventures. The YouTube platform helps influencers build a massive audience but makes monetization challenging.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Join a startup incubator or accelerator. Most provide free resources to startups, including office facilities and consulting, but many provide seed funding as well. Use online platforms like Gust to find them, and local networking to find ones that relate to your industry and passion. Start a crowdfunding campaign online.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

When we think of our neighbors to the North in Canada, we think of bountiful natural resources, open land, and flannel shirts; we don’t necessarily think of tech. The major cities are dominated by industries such as oil, resource exporting, and politics. Same space, different spin.

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