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Top Five Mistakes Small Business Owners Are Making During Pandemic

YoungUpstarts

Failure to Access Small Business Administration (SBA) Programs. The majority of businesses owners do not full advantage of the programs the government is offering. Joseph Meuse is Founder and President of Business GPS which was founded in 2013, with offices in the Washington DC area and in Southern California.

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Launchpad LA – More Details Revealed

Both Sides of the Table

There is no cost but you must physically be based in or move to Los Angeles for the 6 months of the program. When I kicked off Launchpad LA a year ago I had a few objectives: Create an ecosystem where all Southern California VC’s had the chance to work together more actively outside of the boards on which we mutually sit.

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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

Both Sides of the Table

We sat down for an hour to talk about why what GaiKai built was able to overcome its much better funded rival and to dispel the myth that great engineering teams don’t exist in Southern California. 30:30 Mike Jones is one of the five most prolific angel investors in southern California.

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Pitch Deck Month: “What Do You Do?” Slide

View from Seed

is an education technology company that partners with top colleges & universities to bring their degree programs and credit-bearing courses online.”. He then said EXACTLY what he was going to be shipping first: A 100% online, fully-accredited Masters in Education degree with the University of Southern California.

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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

The Startup Magazine

— Sajan Pillai is the CEO and Managing Partner of Season Two Ventures, an early-stage venture fund based in Southern California. As Chairman of the Diversity Committee of STEM, Sajan introduced Step IT Up America to train and hire 5,000 women technologists, a program endorsed by political and industry leaders. ?He

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The Complete Guide To Southern California Accelerators and Incubators, Part III

socaltech.com

Southern California. High Tech News and Information for Southern California. The Complete Guide To Southern California Accelerators and Incubators, Part III. In an attempt to help people navigate the landscape of accelerators and incubators, weve come up with a (hopefully) comprehensive list of Southern.

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Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles – Cliff Allen

SoCal CTO

My first career was spent building radio and television stations, then running the programming side of those businesses. Lots of online marketing before that, but we had some great results when we were picked up by a national radio program. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to?