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DECEMBER 10, 2012

She’s worked for L’Oreal, Accenture, Virgin Mobile & BSkyB (one of the leading media companies in the UK). You won’t really have a mentor unless lightening strikes. But if you seek one out, most talented employees would gladly become your informal mentor. It becomes more administrative than constructive.

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JUNE 1, 2012

Are users willing to check into local businesses with another, mobile check-in product? For local businesses, we're also giving them free mobile web sites, and working on other relationships. The big thing for us has been those connections to investors and mentors. The feedback, mentors, and connections are amazing.

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JANUARY 30, 2013

StartEngine provides $20,000 to $100,000 in funding to promising startups, and also offers up mentoring, office space, and help in getting those startups to the next stage. The eight startups are pitching their investors to startups at CrossCampus in Santa Monica this afternoon.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Touted as both the first and largest of its kind in Europe, the more than 300 attendees will go through a weeklong boot camp where they will network with other entrepreneurs and pitch to more than fifty business mentors and investors.

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JULY 7, 2014

Disney is providing $120,000 in investment capital to startups to help them develop their ideas, and also provide mentoring from Disney executives. READ MORE>>. disney startup accelerator walt angeles entertainment consumer funding venture capital techstars'

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JUNE 20, 2012

There is a large menu of startup accelerators in the Los Angeles, but one of more established efforts in the area is LaunchpadLA ([link] The effort actually started as an informal mentoring program, but has grown and expanded to follow the accelerator model. We're really excited for the next steps. Sam Teller: Great question.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

LaunchpadLA, which is among a number of startup accelerators which have emerged over the past few years and turned Los Angeles into one of the hottest startup markets in the nation, offers up $100,000 in an investment, free office space for four months, and access to mentors. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To learn more about how women are looking to change the investment climate--and get involved in investing themselves--we caught up with one of the Pipeline Fellowship''s local mentors, the CEO of Beyond Capital Fund (www.beyondcapitalfund.org), Eva Helene Yazhari , who is here in Los Angeles. It''s really a fantastic way to get mobilized.

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APRIL 8, 2013

What''s the idea behind the incubator--which gives its startups $20,000 in capital, education, mentoring, working space, and more--and how is it tied to USC? We have a top 10 engineering school, a top computer science department, and research going on in everything from big data, mobile platforms, artificial intelligence, B2B, B2C.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

The accelerator said that the demo day is a culmination of its latest three month program, which included ten new companies in mentoring, collaboration, funding, and access to its network of investors and entrepreneurs. MuckerLab's prior class included such hot Los Angeles startups as SurfAir, Retention Science, Wallaby, and InstaCanvas.

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JUNE 14, 2013

Adding one more startup incubator/accelerator to the long list in Los Angeles, Bixel Exchange launched Thursday, to offer up mentoring and classes to local startups. According to the Bixel Exchange, the new technology center will provide mentors and advisors, informatoin and educaiton, and connections to the local community.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Seth’s interest in helping others grew out of his lack of having a mentor. He was drawn to Stanford by the people ecosystem- access to professors and mentors. Mark then talked about Crittercism, a mobile feedback solution. Again, he stressed the importance of good mentors. What is your mobile strategy?

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MAY 24, 2017

Los Angeles-based mobile location data provider Factual announced on Wednesday that it has named Brian Czarny as its new SVP of Marketing. Czarny is also a mentor at Techstars. The hire comes just a few weeks after TeleSign was acquired by BICS in a $230M deal.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2012

They've provided a completely free facility, furniture, Internet access, mentoring, sponsorship--all of those things are provided for free. It's a slightly different formula from the first location, as it is focused on early stage mobile apps and Internet. That's through the generosity of the Irvine Company. So, that't the foundation.

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JANUARY 7, 2013

In the latest roundup of fundings (big few weeks for San Diego, apparently): PatientSafe Solutions ($20M, San Diego, mobile health). How to find a startup mentor. Broadcom Powering New Mac Wireless. Surf Air Gets First Aircraft. Solarflare ($22M, San Diego, high speed networking). Ignyta ($6M, San Diego, personalized medicine).

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 6, 2012

On July 27, 2012 the AT&T Developer Program and Apigee produced the Mobile App Hackathon in Los Angeles, California. There were people walking around the room with orange ties called Senseis that were there specifically to mentor and support developers with programming issues. appeared first on TechZulu.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

My partner & mentor Yves Sisteron ( You can get to know Yves in this YouTube video ) has been active at HDI for years (as has our CFO, Dana Kibler ). Our investments focus heavily on the financial services industry, digital media, mobile applications & infrastructure, SaaS / Cloud and retail innovation.

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OCTOBER 22, 2009

And you can always bring on a senior person as a mentor / coach to help guide you personally to become a better sales leader until you’re ready for somebody more senior on your team. Life’s too short – find somebody geographically desirable or totally mobile. Now was time to bring in some process.

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JULY 13, 2020

Mentors that are part of the accelerator also include another LA area investor and startup veteran, Brian Norgard (former exec at Tinder); the company also said it has assembled a group of designers focused on branding, mobile, web, and other areas to help companies in the accelerator. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

Our mobile phones are capable of doing almost anything these days. To pay for convenience and to value how mobile can shape your every day. Where do you see the mobile landscape going in the future? I think mobile is going to be part of our lives forever. Google Glass, you can call a mobile, wearable hardware.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I acted as the occasional mentor, advisor and coach to Ethan. And in a world where we increasingly log in to personal web time at late hours or on our mobile phones that’s no longer good enough. The company was called Red Beacon. I was standing with him when he won the TechCrunch 50 award.

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JULY 27, 2016

Tamkin is also a mentor at the Techstars Mobility startup accelerator. READ MORE>>.

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JULY 11, 2016

The Walt Disney Company has named its next class of startup participating in the Disney Accelerator , the startup accelerator and mentoring company held on the company's Burbank campus.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

Topics of discussion will be Saas, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2012, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building sensible businesses. He sits on several boards and is involved in the virtual worlds, gaming, mobile, media, and healthcare markets.

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OCTOBER 11, 2017

The startups presented both to a group of venture and angel investors in the morning, as well as to a theater packed with a broader audience of mentors, startups, and community groups in the afternoon. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

We were also about to build a really solid mentor network in a short period of time, pulling in about 250 CEO's and CTOs, from all backgrounds and locations. Following that, I think mobile advertisement technologies. This year, we were lucky enough to find 40 great startups to invest in, growing StartEngine immensely.

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AUGUST 5, 2014

The startups included SideVision , an ecommerce software platform; Portal Entertainment a content development company; Bubbl , a developer of mobile and web-based video editing tools; Wisemetrics , social content publishing; Incoming Media , push notification for video; and Toggle , a developer of HDMI dongles for streaming UltraViolet content.

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OCTOBER 27, 2011

K5Launch (www.k5launch.com) is modeled after the successful Y-Combinator and TechStars acceleration programs, and invests equity, provides mentors, and runs a three month program to get very early stage startups off the ground. All of our mentors are investors as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

I don’t feel like canceling LinkedIn just because occasionally a well-meaning but slightly not-clued-in person from a faraway place wants me to be their personal mentor, answer 3-questions for their high-school entrepreneurship project or take a sales pitch for their recruiting services. I get a lot of those, too. For whatever reason?—?random

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MARCH 11, 2016

Venice, California-based Rally Networks , a startup which uses free charging stations in public locations to help spread the word about mobile apps, has been selected for the new Virgin Media Accelerator that is launching in London. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Ever have an idea for a great mobile startup but get stuck with just a dream because you have no skills to design or develop it and no money to pay to get it done? With the help of your team, you flush out your ideas on the business model canvas and mentors will guide you through the process.

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AUGUST 24, 2015

The Dodgers Accelerator is investing $120,000 in funding in each of the startups, which all will be part of a coworking space in LA, and also gain access to the Dodgers organization, mentors, and more. The accelerator begins today, and runs through a Demo Day in November at Dodger Stadium. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Every entrepreneur and every business I meet in my consulting and mentoring role has great intentions of bringing real innovation to the market, yet I find that most ideas are merely small extensions to existing solutions. Both fail to look first at what customers really need, and are willing to pay for.

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MAY 19, 2016

We believe that it is incrementally harder to differentiate on simple Internet products or mobile apps and while great companies are built doing this, our goal as a fund is to try and fund things that can be 100x returns if they work. We’re not Pollyannaish about this. In short, we’re after venture returns.

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MAY 7, 2018

According to the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority , the new "Innovation Lab" is an accelerator for innovative products and ideas in the airport industry, and will be run by Detecon Inc, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom (the owner of T-Mobile).

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MAY 7, 2018

According to the San Diego County Regional Airport Authority , the new "Innovation Lab" is an accelerator for innovative products and ideas in the airport industry, and will be run by Detecon Inc, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom (the owner of T-Mobile).

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JANUARY 6, 2014

I admit that I haven’t yet read it but I’ve had numerous discussions with Brad over the years about board structure & conduct and consider him a mentor on the topic. I should note that my friend Brad Feld has written a new book on the subject that I would recommend if you want the bible on the topic. In the Early Days.

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