SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. On the one hand, an entrepreneur should not be overly paranoid and should know the ropes that VCs and other professional investors generally will not sign NDAs to see the concept or a prototype--and even if they did, it would not provide much protection.

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2011

He presented the idea at the TED conference in the mid 90′s and was literally boo’d while he was on stage. He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. Overture (Goto.com).

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 9, 2012

He has it on stage, too, at conferences. Many through history became entrepreneurs precisely because they were unemployable. Wasn’t when Dave started championing it and making it a tenet of his incubator class. I don’t know an entrepreneur or a VC who wouldn’t cut him in on any deal.” My pal Dave has blogger Tourette’s.

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socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2014

For example, we had a keynote from Patrick Soon-Shiong, who talked about his new health incubator, and Frank Addante, at Rubicon Project, talking his ad-tech services. What is the biggest thing you''ve learned about the startup business from running these conferences? Most technology conferences are lucky if they even have ten percent.

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socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2014

In a world with a rash of startup incubators and accelerators, super angels, crowdfunding sites, and more, what''s the relevance of organized angel investments groups? Terry Kay: We have always been about helping the entrepreneurs succeed, first, and then, we figure out how we get our fair share from that success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 18, 2015

If you think you are the perfect fit for the entrepreneur lifestyle, but you’re not yet sure if you’re ready to start your own, then I recommend that you take a job with an existing startup first to validate the culture realities against your dream. Hang out where entrepreneurs meet. Explore investor websites and conferences.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

Thus entrepreneurs began building prototypes and designing new products without the traditional huge investment. Here are some key positives from an entrepreneur perspective: Shorten the time and cost from idea to prototype. Very young entrepreneurs get to “touch and feel” the results, and can experiment to their heart’s content.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Thus entrepreneurs were able to build prototypes and design new products without the traditional huge prototyping cost. They have also become great networking events for meeting other like-minded entrepreneurs. Here are some key positives from an entrepreneur perspective: Shorten the time and cost from idea to prototype.

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Tech.Co

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Here at TechCo, we’ve done plenty of lists rounding up the most impressive incubators, accelerators, and coworking spaces in plenty of major cities and across a variety of sectors, from the best healthcare accelerators to a collection of the top women-only coworking spaces. Social Impact Incubator. Brooklyn Foodworks.

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. We will collaborate on ideas and projects and we created the Superfriends together, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. Lewis and I became friends fast (both from Ohio).

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Eric Greenspan

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Mike will be using a desk at Make It Work to incubate his new company. We created Superfriends, a group of local entrepreneurs that will gather to share ideas and help each other grow personally and professionally. About a month ago, I met @lewishowes at the Perfect Pitch conference in LA. We are expecting a full house!

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

A few weeks ago, Rahul Sonnad --a serial entrepreneur who is best known for founding and selling thePlatform to Comcast--alternately confused and dazzled attendees at Twiistup, the Los Angeles tech conference, with a fake-stilted-Indian-immigrant and ukulele-singing-and-dancing studded pitch for his firm, Geodelic (www.geodelic.com).

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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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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. Passionate Entrepreneurs & Ambassadors. You need to have passionate tech entrepreneurs who want to build businesses locally.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 3, 2023

One of the reasons that now is the time to be an entrepreneur is the explosion of startup assistance organizations, usually called incubators or accelerators. Shared business support services, including telephone answering, conference rooms, teleconferencing, administrative support, and a business mailing address.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. But my thing has always been supporting startups and entrepreneurs at an early stage. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Why Every Entrepreneur Should Write and 9 Tips To Get Started - OnStartups , September 27, 2010 "The best part of blogging is the people you will meet"- Hugh MacLeod repeating wisdom from Loic Lemeur to me at the Big Pink at 2 am in South Beach after the Future of Web Apps 2008. Some have made the model work. and chartbeat.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 3, 2012

For those who may think Las Vegas is just the home of Zappos, Conferences, and day/night entertainment, well you are right. However, there is a whole new breed of entrepreneurs and startups starting to emerge from the #VegasTech scene. TechZulu had the honor of being invited out to the Tracky Launch event last week. Sarah Evans PR.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 9, 2014

If you think you are the perfect fit for the entrepreneur lifestyle, but you’re not yet sure if you’re ready to start your own, then I recommend that you take a job with an existing startup first to validate the culture realities against your dream. Hang out where entrepreneurs meet. Explore investor websites and conferences.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

They are used by almost all the entrepreneurs I met with and have gained some serious traction in the marketplace. Almost, two years since the inception, he has built up a team and product making a name for himself as one of the city’s most promising entrepreneurs. I met the team briefly while on the facility tour with Nasser.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2012

Almost everyone has had some situation where you wanted to give someone a phone number, but only temporarily--think Craigslist, or maybe at that bar or business conference, where you want to hand out a number, but only have it work for a short while. I was also very involved in the strategy on Yahoo's Brickhouse incubation effort.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The challenge is when and how to make the switch to the entrepreneur lifestyle. As a mentor to young aspiring entrepreneurs , I often get asked for tips on a strategy to get started. Sources should include local startup incubators, blog owners, and government support organizations, such as SCORE.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Big crowd of entrepreneurs, professors, students, and established professionals. I wanted to connect LA’s incredible entrepreneurs with the larger business community and with the resources of USC.”. The conference itself was focused on innovation, technology, and startups. The conference was filled with a several panels.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

As a business advisor, I listen to many of you entrepreneurs talking about achieving your dreams, but too few of you have structured that dream, and can express it in a set of specific goals, with a timeline for getting there. Building a business is not a solo operation. Register what you learn each day, and update the plan.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Every year, at the end of the year, we share some reflections on the past year from our readers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, sponsors, and others in the local technology community. Dynamic entrepreneurs attract talent and outside capital, both vital resources to every startup. The LA technology scene has officially arrived!

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 30, 2011

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded, advised, invested and sold numerous businesses, including application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media, Movoxx, PeopleMedia, Brizzly and Myspace. Scott Sangster , President at Tech Coast Angels (Los Angeles)/CEO at OrganicStartup.

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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.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

From apps to hardware, to KickStarter successes and international startups, we’re inching closer to finding out who will take home the title of Startup of the Year competition at our annual Celebrate Conference in October. Among the dozens of participants that applied for the online competitions, only a few progressed into the semifinals.

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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. Stacy Stubblefield: We were part of the incubator, so we had some other contracted employees who were working and helping us develop the product.

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socalTECH

JULY 24, 2018

Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) and the California Clean Energy Fund (CalCEF) recently announced the California Climate Cup ([link] a new startup competition tied into the upcoming Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco in September. What's LACI currently working on, outside of this initiative?

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 21, 2014

Introducing Bitcoinference | A Decentralized Conference , hosted by illustrious startup accelerator, 500 Startups. A profile of the state of the Bitcoin industry and its presence of female entrepreneurs. A clear distinction our female entrepreneurs have made here has been their active decisions to hit the ground running.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

This one-day conference has been created and produced by David Beebe Projects led by Emmy winning Digital Entertainment Executive and Producer, David Beebe himself. “The one-day event will bring together leading executives, entrepreneurs and professionals to celebrate this diverse L.A. ” Collaboration was also key.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Siemer & Associates runs its annual conference next week to delve into the same topics. I think the incubators have a lot to do with it. an incubator in Singapore, and we do a dozen or so investments a year. What''s the current environment for M&A and IPOs, in general? We don''t worry about that anymore. Now we have it.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 7, 2010

For those who may not know of DEMO , it is a jammed packed twice a year 2 day conference filled with 6 minute on stage pitches, a demo pit, networking events, and not to mention one of the longest running emerging tech conferences. Sure to attend will be local VC's, entrepreneurs and DEMO alumni. 13-15 in Silicon Valley.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2017

This technology is not only spawning a new generation of entrepreneurs, but is also changing the educational landscape, all the way down to early grade school. In my view as an advisor to new ventures, the Maker Movement is an integral part of a new age of the entrepreneur. Provides networking with cofounders and strategic partners.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 17, 2012

They are used by almost all the entrepreneurs I met with and have gained some serious traction in the marketplace. Almost, two years since the inception, he has built up a team and product making a name for himself as one of the city’s most promising entrepreneurs. I met the team briefly while on the facility tour with Nasser.

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