socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Fariborz Maseeh, in an interview with socalTECH, said that the business plan competition will be open to any undergraduate, graduate student, or faculty or related staff at the engineering school, and is aimed at prompting engineering students to take their ideas to market.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2013

9 Ways socalTECH Can Help You With Your New Year's Resolutions. How to find a startup mentor. Acquisition of note: Nexsan Acquired For $120M, by Imation. TapIt Media acquired for $23M by Phunware. In our features section: Interview with Blair Harrison of Frequency. Southern California's Most Popular Tech Stories.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Today, we share the thoughts of Greg Monterrosa ,a startup community leader who is currently Startup Weekend organizer, facilitator, and mentor and was a former Founder of MyLLC.com and Hub101. It takes a community of supporters, connectors, mentors, and doers to make it happen. What was the biggest news for you/your company this year?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

According to Lehmbeck, in an interview with socalTECH, the company's software takes key specifications from products such as televisions and other consumer electronics, and applies them to ads automatically, so that instead of just advertising a big screen television an ad might contain key terms and information about those products.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Cadence, Intel, IBM, Freescale, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, LSI, X-Fab, and many other leading-edge. PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwc.com).

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2015

According to the firm, the new fellowship program will help mentor vice president level managers of growing LA startup, to help those leaders grow. The company said it will help mentor those leaders in areas such as business development, marketing, engineering, and product management. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

The Los Angeles chapter of the Founder Insitute , the startup incubation program run locally by Ken Rutkowski, is gearing up for its Spring Semester, saying that it has added a number of new mentors for the semester. Other mentors to the effort include Elon Musk (Tesla/SpaceX), Kelly Perdew (Fastpoint Games), Michael Robertson (MP3.com),

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Million Women Mentors has a network of both women and men, helping underrepresented women pursue careers in STEM and STEM related fields. We are seeing the Million Women Mentor's movement using POD to stay connected, and to help them find people with similar interests and passions. I have a STEM degree, a Ph.D.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

month program involving workshops, guidance from experts, and mentoring from each startup's specific industry sector. The accelerator said the startups include three companies based in Long Beach, which will participate in a 3.5 The names of the startups were not announced.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 21, 2011

A University of Southern California professor with a specialty in robotics is one of eleven individuals being honored by President Obama next week, as part of the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. According to the White House, Obama will be awarding Maja J.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2019

Eli sat down with us to share some of the knowledge he's gained over many years in the industry helping and mentoring startups. Our video interview today is with a long time advisor to startups in the Los Angeles area, Eli Eisenberg , founder of Straight Line Management. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 6, 2019

In addition to the funding and equipment, Sony said it helps connect winners with a group of female mentors. The competition is in its second year. Last year, Sony said it selected five women for its program. The program is a "virtual" program, rather than a physical location. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth (www.sycr.com) Sponsoring socalTECH's Orange County High Tech Report. Sponsoring socalTECH's Executive Moves section. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies. Stubbs Alderton Markiles, LLP (www.biztechlaw.com). Technology. NeoHire (www.neohire.comk).

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socalTECH

APRIL 15, 2010

Los Angeles-based Launchpad LA , the startup mentoring effort spearheaded by GRP Partners' Mark Suster, is announcing this afternoon that it has selected 10 startups for the second season of the program. Tags: incubation mentoring startup launchpadla. READ MORE>>.

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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.

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socalTECH

JUNE 28, 2021

Belkin said that students at Portal Schools will be embedded in the Belkin campus, and will gain access to internships and on-site mentoring with Belkin teams in various divisions including engineering, industrial design, creative design, product management, marketing, communications, sales, and more.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

The Founders Institute Los Angeles , the local branch of the Founders Insitute mentoring program, is seeing unusual interest from women for the upcoming semester of the program, according to local organizer Ken Rutkowski. Rutkowski attributed the high interest from women to the number of women mentors signed up for the program.

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MARCH 5, 2012

If you use the mentor-driven model that we pioneered at TechStars, you get entrepreneurs who are deeply connected with the broader entrepreneurial landscape. Many experienced entrepreneurs choose to go through an accelerator because of the network effect and the dynamics of the mentor help that they get.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2020

The Preccelerator offers up both physical space along Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade, as well as access to legal and other services, mentors, and programs. LAVA has not yet announced its plans after the departure of Lanzi. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

Launchpad LA offers up a $100,000 investment, free office space in Santa Monica, mentoring and access to resources, and much more to companies. The accelerator is one of the earliest in Los Angeles, having originally started as a mentoring group headed by blogger and venture investor Mark Suster of Upfront Ventures (formerly GRP Partners).

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socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2010

Launchpad LA , the business incubation and mentoring effort started by GRP's Mark Suster , said today that it has opened up applications for its second class of companies. The effort's mentors include Mike Jones, Keith Richman, and Adam Bain. Tags: mentoring incubation startup launchpad launchpadla.

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MARCH 1, 2016

According to Startup Next, it helps startups prepare for accelerators and seed investment, using mentors and other founders to help startups with pitches, and puts them through a series of weekly seminars around pitching their company, market sizing, finding product/market/fit, and other topis.

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2017

The LACI said the new program will help connect entrepreneurs with mentors, help companies with testing and prototyping failities, workshops and training, referrals for flexible office spae, and more. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2018

Mental health of startup founders--once a taboo subject--has been boosted by efforts by such startup community mentors as Brad Feld of Techstars. Techstars is one of the groups which has been helping to address the often overwhelming pressures of the startup life. READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 16, 2019

Mellis also is a mentor and investor with Techstars, and had been CFO and VP of Corporate Finance and Business Intelligence at Greendot. HyreCar said Mellis takes over for Anshu (Andy) Banshal, who the company says has left its board to "pursue a new start-up opportunity". Mellis is founder and managing director of IGA Capital.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 8, 2019

Techstars operates startup accelerator programs, generally geared around three month periods where startups get help with shaping up their business model, working on honing product-market-fit, connecting with mentors, and otherwise moving those startups closer to funding or launch. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 7, 2013

The Founder Institute says its mentors in San Diego include such local execs as Brian Dear of Eventful, Joe Bezdek of DivX, Jon Carder of MOGL, and Jimmy Hendricks and Patrick Dillon of Deal Current. READ MORE>>.

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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.

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2017

Czarny is also a mentor at Techstars. Czarny was most recently SVP of Marketing at Telesign, and also has served as VP of Marketing and Product at Symplified, in addition to stints at Webroot and MessageLabs. The hire comes just a few weeks after TeleSign was acquired by BICS in a $230M deal. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The San Diego arm of the Founder Institute , the entrepreneurship mentoring effort started by Adeo Ressi, said Friday that it has graduated 12 companies from its Fall 2009 San Diego semester. Tags: founder institute entrepreneurship mentoring entrepreneur startup adeo ressi diego. Names of the other companies were not announced.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2013

StartEngine announced the new location in an invitation to an opening event January 15th for its mentors and companies. StartEngine said the new office is a split-level loft, with access to such locations as the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and a few metro stops from Pasadena.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

According to Koffler and Morris, the new group--which also includes a network of other members--is hoping to help bridge the gap between research projects, technology, and inventors and commercially viable companies, by connecting researchers with mentors, CEOs, and other resources.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 26, 2017

Each of the companies receives $120,000 in seed funding, plus access to mentors, including Cedars-Sinai physicians, researchers and executives. The new startups include Cerebro Solutions , ENSO , FIGS , Frame Health , HealthcareTTU , HealthTensor , Noteworth , and ReferralMD. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Marks said that Start Engine will accept thirty startups per session, which will receive office space, legal counse, optional inestment, and opportunity to participate in weekly dinners, educational semiconductors, mentoring, and more.

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socalTECH

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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socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2011

The accelerator said that it is aiming at helping entrepreneurs--particularly in the social and mobile technology space--in Los Angeles, San Diego, and Orange County with pre-seed funding and mentoring.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

According to Disney, it will provide $120,000 in investment capital to startups to help them develp their ideas, and also provide mentoring from Disney executives. Walt Disney Company said Wednesday that it is launching a new, Los Angeles based startup accelerator, focused on.

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