YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 19, 2021

Rick De La Croix, Chief Executive Officer of Ares Distributors, Inc, believes that true and authentic luxury watches must successfully merge breathtaking aesthetics with eloquent precision in order to emerge victorious opposite the foreign and domestic assault of shiny, new imitation and less than luxurious timepieces on the market today.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 13, 2020

Amy and I, through our Anchor Point Foundation , are supporting the Grid110 – South LA program. Among other things, he told me about Grid110 and why he was helping create and lead Grid110’s new program in South LA. The post Supporting Grid110 – South LA appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Mucker Lab

AUGUST 27, 2014

At the time, LA and Santa Clara were both the epicenter of the technology industry due to the significant overlap between the aerospace/military industry (Los Angeles) and the computing business (Silicon Valley). In LA, we don’t see as many entrepreneurs with these types of backgrounds as we do in companies up north.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

AUGUST 10, 2023

The post Generative LA—Lightspeed x Scopely x Activision appeared first on Lightspeed Venture Partners.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Our event this year will feature many portfolio companies and also emerging LA tech companies such as Tinder & Whisper. The Mayor will come and talk about LA innovation. Have a quick view below for what is in store at our Upfront Summit – a little bit of LA startup energy and creativity. And maybe sleeping, too.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Launchpad LA today announces it will accept applications for its third class of Los Angeles-based tech startups. years there has been an initiative in Los Angeles called Launchpad LA. To show these companies that they can remain in LA. How has Launchpad LA done? 23 companies have gone through Launchpad LA.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2018

Bird is the natural evolution in billion-dollar++ outcomes in LA. This is why so many great LA funds like Upfront, Greycroft and B Capital Global have all backed Bird. This is why so many great LA funds like Upfront, Greycroft and B Capital Global have all backed Bird. Why scooters? Can’t people just ride bikes or walk?

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

I did speak to the LA Times for a story that appeared yesterday both because I like and trusted the journalist, Paresh Dave, to do a fair story and also because we always try to support our hometown paper The LA Times. 12m on a $60m for an early-stage business is a not a bet that most LA firms could or would take.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 23, 2016

But one tech news story stood out for me — the fact that LA-based Dollar Shave Club (DSC) was sold to Unilever for $1 billion. Another Major Win for LA Tech was originally published in Both Sides of the Table on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story. Congratulation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2013

And it’s the latest in a series of investments we’ve made in building out our practice as the LA technology market continues to grow robustly and attract entrepreneurs and investors. I’m always interested in young, talented people who want to move to LA. But the CEO in NYC and the team in LA? Not for me.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

Randy Newman said it best, “ I love LA &# (Worth a 2 minute watch for pure nostalgia. First, I’d like to quote (paraphrase) Brad Feld speaking at Twiistup in LA in 2009, “I keep hearing people in LA talking with a chip on their shoulders about building a tech business here relative to Silicon Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 27, 2013

We love all of LA and fund all regions. So when we thought to ourselves: “What should we call an LA-based venture capital fund that values transparency, easier access, multiple geographies and frank communications?” Second, we are announcing officially that we are moving our offices from Century City to Santa Monica.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 24, 2012

Dave Young (LA … DLA Piper). Scott Alderton (LA … Stubbs Alderton). Don Lee (LA … LKP). David Hernand (LA … Gibson Dunn). And over the past few years I had been egging him on from LA to get Cooley to take our market more seriously. Startup-focused. Joey Tran (SF Bay Area … Fortis).

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2021

With so many galleries and museums shut down for the foreseeable future, artists have taken it upon themselves to showcase their work al fresco, leading to a rise in street art murals across LA. The post How LA has become the model for keeping art alive during the pandemic appeared first on The Startup Magazine.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

There’s something about the silence echoing throughout a vast developed physical space such as LA that calms me down and builds up some reserves for me for the day. I was in LA all day yesterday – starting with a Fireside Chat organized by David C Murphy.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 6, 2015

Everybody now knows that LA produced SnapChat, Tinder and Maker Studios. They are getting a sense that as VR and AR become more an important part of the computing landscape that the history of film-making and camera innovations not to mention special effects and talent will continue to propel LA’s tech market growth.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 22, 2012

Founder Dating Los Angeles LA Demo Day Startups Uncensored Tech Cofounder Dating Los Angeles TechCoastAngels Online Events Venice Tech Entrepreneurs Downtown Startups LA Startup Nights Santa Barbara Startup Weekend Silicon Beach Fest Silicon Beach Startups Los Angeles Startup Weekend Hollywood Hackday Startup Weekend Los Angeles LA Tech Happy Hour (..)

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m super excited to announce that GRP Partners led the investment in Ethan Anderson’s new company MyTime (link has LA-based merchants but will give you a good feel for the product). We will stay in LA and then Southern California before branching out into our 2nd & 3rd markets. Let me not bury the lede.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

Thursday night was the unveiling of the newest batch of Launchpad LA companies. We held a 90-minute demo session where 150 of LA’s VC’s and senior technology executives watched the LPLA V2 group present in small groups of 12-15 each. The goal of Launchpad LA is to be significantly more than a series of cocktail parties.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

—– Back to Colombia: Vive La Revolución Emprendedora! My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. He’s back to Bogota, Colombia this week for round two.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 20, 2018

I told him, “why don’t you come visit me in LA. you’ve at least gotten informed about the LA market for when you do ever want to invest? the weather in LA is great this time of year!” At the very least I would build a better relationship and help other VCs in LA get to know an important potential LP. I was relieved.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 30, 2016

I knew that many LPs nationally were not yet convince about the power of the LA tech community and I figured if they could experience it for themselves they would be as convinced as I had become. And the more LP money that would pour into LA the better for the entire ecosystem. So we planned a Technology Summit.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 3, 2017

by Bob La Loggia, founder and CEO of AppointmentPlus. Bob La Loggia is the founder and CEO of AppointmentPlus , a fast-growing SaaS business based in Scottsdale, Arizona. When you’re starting a business, focus is the name of the game. Every entrepreneur knows this — at least in theory.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

I will be ordering several copies for leaders in LA and will be helping to host Brad’s visit to our community later this year. LA has the annual Monty Conference. Seattle has GeekWire , LA has SoCalTech and so on. It’s why LA is such a larger, more vibrant startup community now than it was 10 years ago.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

I had to drive 30 minutes southeast of La Jolla to find a unit and what a pain it was. Within a few weeks he was an EIR in our offices in LA working on the idea. I used storage. It was in San Diego and I had space in my apartment but I had a lot of extra stuff that was easier stored in a facility. Each time was a trip.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 22, 2013

—– Back to Colombia: Vive La Revolución Emprendedora! My co-author and business Partner Bob Dorf spends much of his time traveling the world teaching countries and companies how to run the Lean LaunchPad program. He’s back to Bogota, Colombia this week for round two.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 14, 2012

That seemed to be the mood running through the cloud at the more-than-sellout crowd at the Fairmont Miramar in Santa Monica Thursday at the first LA Demo Day. My two big data points are: What's happening in the Los Angeles Startup Events such as popular events like LA Demo Day. At the event, the enthusiasm for startups was palpable.

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ReadWriteStart

MAY 5, 2021

Là d’être bredouille, de n’avoir ni miettes ni dépouilles dû à ceux tousseux qui se la coule douce en noeud. Cool j’atteste toutefois que les deux moins deux couilles détestent la houle des textes. denses penses pas adipeux dextres qui dansent extirpant la panse et les tripes des tripeux.

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San Francisco Technical Review New York Global 122

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 9, 2013

“This is LA. In LA we have a culture where people drive fancy cars but live in small apartments and where credit card balances are larger than bank balances. I asked him what percentage of cars on his lot were done as leases. He told me that more than 50% of the cars that moved off his lot were leases. Why so many on leases?

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2012

They have very little “other business” in Austin as they would when the come to NYC, SF or LA. Launchpad LA. A few years ago I started a mentorship organization in Los Angeles called Launchpad LA now run by the uber talented Sam Teller. And as I said to my close friend Adam Lilling who helps run Launchpad LA.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2009

AITP-LA – Monthly events. In his post, he mentions the following events / event organizers, and you should visit his post for a bit more on each of them. VentureNet – Great annual event by the Technology Council. CalTech MIT Enterprise Forum – Great events on various topics – there's one this Saturday that would be great to go to.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

Then, as he told me, he "accidentally moved to LA to work on it" along with the rest of his team. They also formed a partnership with the City of LA that brought the first drive-through testing to the U.S., He found a lab in Los Angeles that was normally used for anti-doping testing, and so Tuesday morning he flew down to LA.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

Amy joined me in LA and we had dinner with Fred and Joanne Wilson and then went art shopping with Fred on Sunday. At the end of the trip, I spent two days at the Upfront Summit in LA. I have a long relationship with LA. In my first company (Feld Technologies) my first large client was in LA (Bellflower Dental Group).

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 29, 2010

We want applicants who are either in LA or have a compelling reason to be in LA. He heads their business development practice and they have been very active in incubating, investing in and helping grow LA startups. What is the future of social media, digital television or mobile computing. Yes, we require a cover letter.

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deal architect

APRIL 15, 2012

Thanks to Charles Dickens, one of the enduring images of the French Revolution is that of the ladies who sat around knitting between the public executions at the Guillotine. Over the last few years, I have been struck by how.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Back then only 15% of our dollars were invested locally whereas today 50% of our dollars are invested in LA. 10 years ago we found ourselves trying to persuade LPs and VCs that it was worth spending more time getting to know the LA market and now the most common refrain that I hear from them is “there really is something going on in LA.”

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

As the day approached I noticed that there was a conference in LA that I wanted to attend. I assume that they also had other meetings in LA but they really wanted to meet me. Their plane had to land in Las Vegas unexpectedly to refuel. It’s too close to the meeting date. Recently a team flew to meet me.

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