socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2014

If it seems strange to find the inventor of Bitcoin living in the San Gabriel Valley, it''s actually not all that surprising given the area is home to one of the most prominent research universities in the United States, The California Institute of Technology ; NASA''s Jet Propulsion Laboratory ; and the original Internet incubator, Idealab.

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socalTECH

JUNE 22, 2009

The company was incubated by Clearstone Ventures, which has been actively pulling together management teams and funding new startups in Los Angeles and elsewhere. Aside from Sonnad, who was at thePlatform, the company includes executives from Shopzilla, Yahoo!, and Jamdat. READ MORE>>.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo! who gladly offered to sponsor the event and provide the venue at Yahoo!’s Gone are the days of 3.4 YouTube and many others.

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socalTECH

JUNE 6, 2011

which became Softbank Marketing, selling ads for Yahoo before Yahoo had its own salesforce. There are lots of incubators here-- practically every school or municipality has some kind of incubator--but they don't have an accelerator. So I got started in the tech and internet world very early stage.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2012

Greg Cohn: I spent the last five years at Yahoo, where I was leading strategy and business development on innovation efforts, mostly related to social and developer problems. I was also very involved in the strategy on Yahoo's Brickhouse incubation effort. Were you here in LA with Yahoo?

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. I was provided with introductions to execs at Myspace, Facebook, Yahoo!, The first to respond was @robinzucker of Yahoo! who gladly offered to sponsor the event and provide the venue at Yahoo!’s Gone are the days of 3.4 YouTube and many others.

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socalTECH

APRIL 8, 2014

Plus, there are companies like Yahoo, Google, and others who have set up shop here. We''re now trying to tie into the local universities, incubators, and other centers of entrepreneurship. We''re now trying to tie into the local universities, incubators, and other centers of entrepreneurship.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Google and Yahoo aren''t going to buy them, AOL has already made its bet, and your only real path to an exit is an IPO for any kind of liquidity. The large acquirers, the Microsoft and Yahoo''s of the world, were buying 20-40 companies a year. I think the incubators have a lot to do with it. Their only option is an IPO.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

According to Josh, the experience at Penn taught him that college campuses are wonderful ecosystems for creating disruptive even naming giant firms like Facebook, Microsoft, Dell, Yahoo, Google, Warby Parker, Invite Media, Milo, and Admob all started in a dorm room. The initial batch of eight students is on. Then the loans come in.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Be Great Partners , a Los Angeles technology incubator, has recently released a report on the startup community in LA and the information shows a positive growth for startups here in LA. With Yahoo!, Los Angeles is 3 rd in the global startup ecosystem, behind Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

He heads their business development practice and they have been very active in incubating, investing in and helping grow LA startups. In the technology space we have backed Overture (acquired by Yahoo!), Wait a second, what’s this CAA logo all about? Are you merging? My friend Michael Yanover & I were speaking.

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JULY 1, 2010

Rumored to have turned down acquisition offers from Yahoo and Facebook. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. -A location based service which incorporates social and gaming elements. 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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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

People we met there were Greg Cohn, who was recently head of yahoo games. It's a casual setupit's not an incubator, it's not an accelerator, and we're not charging anyone for space. The program itself is incredibly daunting initially, but it was really valuable for us, especially as an educational experience.

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socalTECH

JULY 22, 2019

I have worked as an entrepreneur in mobile gaming and an executive in the entertainment industry, and worked at Yahoo and also as a management consulting. Before that, I was an executive at a cybersecurity company, which sold for $200M. I've done all kinds of different things across many different sectors across Southern California.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 17, 2011

He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2012

Further to the south are the legendary companies of Cisco, Apple, Intel, eBay, Yahoo!, So we’ve seen an explosion in the number of startup companies and subsequently a huge burst in the number of incubators. In fact, so many DID NOT that companies like Google & Yahoo! It is the birthplace of Hewlett Packard. And Facebook.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! Don’t think about starting an incubator until you have real operating experience otherwise you don’t really have anything to offer startups. .&# Immediately thereafter Amazon became a large business.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

where he led the incubated startup to $300m in revenues as the fastest growing Service Provider for Collaboration services to include video, web, and audio. Co-founder and COO Jack Blaeser was President of BT Conferencing Inc.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

He currently works for Founders Fund and coordinates FF Angel LLC, a seed-stage investment program; as well as fbFund REV, a micro-seed incubator program for Facebook-related startups. In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998. gigaom.com. . Paul Grahm.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 13, 2010

Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Meg Garlinghouse, Yahoo! Birds of All Feathers: Creative Industry Incubators. This panel will discuss various aspects of the recently proliferating Creative Industries Incubators. Entrepreneurism / Monetization business, creative industries, Incubators. .

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

NAME Yahoo. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo. Talent agencies CAA and WME are incubating start-ups. COMPANY FB COMPANY|FB. NAME Facebook. SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. COMPANY GOOG COMPANY|GOOG. NAME Google. SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. COMPANY YHOO COMPANY|YHOO. NAME Microsoft.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

Chris Devore & Andy Sack have created Founder’s Coop with the goal of funding, incubating & launching more early-stage ventures in Seattle. When you start a company in the Bay Area you can often get your first biz dev deal done with Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, eBay, Yahoo!

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