Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Music Prodigy , a Los Angeles based music education technology firm serious on improving the way people learn, play and interact with music beat over 70 startups with their app Rock Prodigy to win the Silicon Beach Awards. The post Music Prodigy Beats 70 Startups To Bring Music Education Technology to the Masses appeared first on TechZulu.

Education 106

Education Startup Technology Patents 106

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 28, 2018

A more important question, then, for an aspiring entrepreneur, should be what to study in college for maximum value, rather than whether to drop out or stay. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. It’s never too early to stop studying and start doing it for real. Get real experience early.

Startup 97

Startup Writing Coach Incubator 97

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

In the startup world, one of the most difficult journeys to market is by companies who are taking basic scientific advances and technologies originally developed at universities, and taking them all the way to use in the commercial world. Carbonics is focusing on wireless technology, using new semiconductors that bring us into the 5G era.

Startup 100

Startup Southern California UCLA Incubator 100

Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 15, 2016

A more important question, then, for an aspiring entrepreneur, should be what to study in college for maximum value, rather than whether to drop out or stay. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. It’s never too early to stop studying and start doing it for real. Get real experience early.

Entrepreneur 98

Entrepreneur Tips Writing Coach 98

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy Stubblefield: We actually started out of an incubator, based out of Beverly Hills. We were working on a bunch of different projects when we first started at the incubator. Ryan Disraeli: I was studying business with an emphasis on entrepreneurship. How did the company start? What were you majoring in?

Marina Del Rey 113

Marina Del Rey Software Review Startup Incubator 113

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

A more important question, then, for an aspiring entrepreneur, should be what to study in college for maximum value, rather than whether to drop out or stay. Get involved in startup-business incubator activities with peers at school. It’s never too early to stop studying and start doing it for real. Get real experience early.

Writing 111

Writing Coach Incubator Entrepreneur 111

Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

San Diego’s Avalon Ventures led the Series A round, and has established Fortis at COI Pharma, the firm’s biotech incubator (which now houses 16 life sciences startups). Fortis is licensing the technology behind the drug program from the University of California, San Francisco, where it was developed in the lab of Bin Liu. Bregua Corp.,

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Avalon Funding Startup San Diego 40

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2015

Yet I still get too many business plans that clearly are looking for money to do research and development (R&D) on a new and unproven technology. In this context, there are at least six stages often included in the scope of R&D to narrow your focus: Search for new technologies. Technology pilots.

Develop 102

Develop Development Product Funding 102

socalTECH

MAY 1, 2019

What we're trying to do, instead, is allow them to serve more people, and do more things by charing a lower amount, providing technology infrastructure, and modernizing their infrastructure and marketing. Here's something else that might be interesting to people here, is everyone know there are a lot of technology incubators out there.

Legalzoom 127

Legalzoom Startup Incubator Services 127

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 19, 2018

In the trade, this category of investors is called friends, family and fools (FFF), and is the primary source of funding for entrepreneurs with no prior track record in business or technology. Find private fund incubators for technology pilots. They don’t need the long research and development cycles of a new technology.

Research 57

Research Develop Development Funding 57

socalTECH

JANUARY 20, 2011

We are targeting small businesses, startups, or anyone who doesn't want to pay the $50 to $100 a month for web conferencing technology. Costin Tuculescu: I cam out of UC Irvine as a software engineer, studying computer science. I ended up building a lot of their technology, but unfortunately, they ran out of funding.

Tech Coast Angels 178

Tech Coast Angels Web Screening Pasadena Angels 178

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2019

It's an incredible mix of commercial, military, and vicil organizations to support all kind of the innovative technology that we can grow really quickly. One, is the renewed focus of the American government on space exploration and technology. Is this the usual three month format for a Techstars accelerator?

Southern California 124

Southern California Startup Entrepreneur Los Angeles 124

InfoChachkie

MAY 26, 2016

In my role as a Professor of Practice within UC Santa Barbara’s entrepreneurial Technology Management Program , I am confronted by several millennials each quarter who ask me if they should quit school to work on their ventures. I must admit, I furthered this anti-college narrative with a provocative article about college dropout successes.

Entrepreneur 150

Entrepreneur Case Study Education Seed Funding 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 8, 2015

According to a classic Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

Entrepreneur 105

Entrepreneur Startup Technical Review Equity 105

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 12, 2015

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like OpenStudy , which is a learning network enabling massively multi-player study groups. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 112

Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 112

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 14, 2014

According to a Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don''t attract investors failing within the first three years. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

Entrepreneur 113

Entrepreneur Funding Startup Technical Review 113

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 1, 2017

According to my experience and a classic Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with a majority of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. Join a startup incubator. Apply for contests and business grants. Get a loan or line-of-credit.

Develop 70

Develop Development Product Startup 70

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. A hypothetical scenario, is an entrepreneur might be looking for a couple million to commercialize some technology, which takes algae and converts it to biofuel.

Southern California 193

Southern California Startup eHarmony Sites 193

socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

Our first project was 3D imaging of the heart, so that doctors could study a pacemaker and defibrillator recall from the Alfred E. They wanted to do 3-D X-rays, but at the time, there was not technology available to do that. This is really also funded because of Mike and my other project, the 101 incubator.

Startup 262

Startup Competition Software Review UCLA 262

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

But in the end we selected David Lin , a superstar who did 4 years at the technology investment banking firm Montgomery & Co and 4 years as Director of Strategy at the comparison shopping site PriceGrabber where he dealt with many operational issues. He’s a star who has a very intuitive feel for technology and … no MBA.

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

According to a Gompers and Lerner study, the challenge is very real, with 90% of new ventures that don't attract investors failing within the first three years. This source is a major focus these days, due to government initiatives to incent research and development on alternative energy and other technologies.

Startup 123

Startup Technical Review Equity Incubator 123

socalTECH

MAY 10, 2018

The idea, is to make it accessible as a multi-disciplinary part of Tel Aviv University, so that young people, alumni, and students with ideas for a company can join the fund, not only to be funded with seed money, but also so they can be accelerated and potentially incubated before they go out.

El Segundo 100

El Segundo Southern California Startup Santa Monica 100

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Julie Edge, who received a grant from The Kauffman Foundation to conduct the first study on cofounder relationships. CoFoundersLab has gained ground quickly creating partnerships with entrepreneurial programs at Ivy League universities, top incubators and accelerators, and investors.

Entrepreneur 87

Entrepreneur Santa Monica Startup CTO Hire 87

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2016

Universities and the marketplace are spawning tools like OpenStudy , which is a learning network enabling massively multi-player study groups. The challenge is to find these just-in-time, including community and university startup incubators, accelerators, and advisors. Help entrepreneurs with constant learning. Marty Zwilling.

Entrepreneur 58

Entrepreneur Startup Education Tool 58

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

I went to school at Babson, back East, and majored in finance and entrepreneurial studies. I started in media technology, and built a number of companies, which I was able to build out and get the ball rolling, in digital, nonlinear editing and special effects technology in Hollywood. I've been doing that for 25 years.

Southern California 200

Southern California Startup Customer Custom 200

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

How to create a technology start-up inside a large organization - based on how we are doing it right. Bootstrapping marketing, Start-up, Technology. . Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Entrepreneurism / Monetization entrepreneur, Startup, Technology. . Ed Brojerdi, Spies and Assassins / MDC Partners.

Guide 69

Guide Startup Venture Capital Entrepreneur 69

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 2, 2011

Read the opening quote from his initial press release on the program … “Warning that America’s long term economic prospects are uncertain without radical innovation in technology, Peter Thiel this week launched the Thiel Fellowship to foster the next generation of tech visionaries.&#. That’s a goal I can get behind.

Education 322

Education Startup Incubator Class 322

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 29, 2012

But my take: Gaikai had superior technology & a superior business strategy. 23:00 Question from the audience: Do VCs have a preference for startups that choose to work with incubators? I saw a study out of the Kauffman foundation that said the rate of startups in LA is higher than anywhere else in the country.

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Rustic Canyon Venture Capital Southern California Userplane 279

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 30, 2010

We as a country are suffering from what is known as “ structural unemployment &# where jobs have disappeared from certain segments forever due to technological or structural obsolescence. And last quarter we now know grew at just 1.6%. Such is the case with advanced batteries. They all rely on lithium-ion batteries.

Entrepreneur 298

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Technical Review Startup 298