Ever thought about changing the world, want to get paid (jobs & startups) to do what you love... Come meet the people and companies that already are.
REGISTER & FREE STUFF:
http://planana.com/event/a/956587c
REGISTER:
http://entrepreneurrecruit.eventbrite.com/ (FOOD Provided)
A mixer for the brightest entrepreneurial minds at USC and the industries hottest companies. Talented students (all skillsets) can find rewarding jobs/positions in an entrepreneurial environment and meet equally amazing students. Come connect into the entrepreneurial scene.
This is a great way for students to find a fulfilling, high-potential positions in these companies, or meet the person you plan on starting your own company with. Even if you're not currently looking it's a great way to connect into the LA entrepreneurial scene, and find an opportunity you didn't know was out there.
OPPORTUNITIES
Serious opportunities for: engineers, business, communications, hackers, designers, marketers, sales, social medialites, artists, thinkers and anyone who’s motivated
ATTIRE
-Dress to Impress.
WHAT TO BRING:
-Yourself
- Bring proof that you are talented, samples of your work (the more tangible the better)
- A resume/personal statement (multiples, to give to companies).
Examples:
A work Portfolio, Website App, Mobile App (with device), A Prototype, An Invention, Marketing Materials, Video, Images, Design Work, Business Plan, Entrepreneurial Validation, Startup Company Samples, Pitch Deck... get creative
Website:
http://entrepreneurrecruit.com/
REPRESENTING COMPANIES DESCRIPTIONS
BetterWorks (http://betterworks.com/)
Founded by Paige Craig, Zao Yang (creator of Farmville), and George Ishii (PayPal), an online employee perk platform valued at over $100m, based in Santa Monica
ShoeDazzle (http://shoedazzle.com/)
Founded in LA by Brian Lee (LegalZoom Founder) and Kim Kardashian, they provide monthly online shoe subscriptions through their site. Over $60m in funding, and 1 million FB fans
Social Gaming Network, SGN (http://sgn.com)
SGN connects people around the world through great games. Led by Chris DeWolfe (MySpace CoFounder), they are among the largest cross-platform gaming companies.
Entrefusion (http://entrefusion.com)
We enable you to change the world with people you trust. Discover your friends hidden talents, share your projects, and connect into the startup ecosystem.
MySocialCloud (http://mysocialcloud.com)
Started by a USC student, MySocial Cloud now has a full team and high-profile investors such Richard Branson and Jerry Murdock. They provide cloud solutions to bookmarks and online passwords.
The Honest Company (http://honest.com)
Recently raising $27M and led by Brian Lee (Legalzoom, Shoedazzle), Jessica Alba and others they provide monthly subscriptions to healthy babycare products.
InTheMO (http://inthemo.com/)
Interactive think-tank, Full-service digital agency (design, web, video, more) and technology powerhouse in LA, high-growth, very creative
Lumi (http://lumi.co)
Lumi is pioneering a revolutionary print process that uses sunlight to create durable photography on textiles and natural materials.
BlockBeacon (http://BlockBeacon.com/)
Social, local, and mobile way to find great food and drinks, at amazing prices. Founding team in Santa Monica with funding and huge potential
Bryn Neil (http://BrynNeil.com/)
Entreprenuerial recruiting firm, looking for outgoing and social self-starters. Amazing upside with top-performers gaining equity interest
DocRun (http://DocRun.com/)
DocRun allows individuals and small businesses to create highly-customized legal documents INSTANTLY. Work in a fast-paced startup culture.
Wheelz (http://wheelz.com/)
Peer to peer car-sharing allows you to rent your car to others. Over $13m in funding, strong base in SF, and poised to rock LA.
OMAZE (http://omaze.co)
Online marketplace for experiences that cannot be bought with the proceeds benefiting charitable initiatives. Amazing Santa Monica team, get in on the ground floor!
Roozt (http://roozt.com/)
Started by USC alum Brent Freeman, they are an online marketplace that connects trendsetting, cause-related brands with influential Gen Y online shoppers
StartupTAP (http://startuptap.com/)
The talent agency for SoCal’s hottest tech startups
ICON Aircraft (http://iconaircraft.com/)
Premium designer of amphibious sport aircraft, personal planes of the future
Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. (http://dandb.com/)
A $200m private-equity funded startup providing business credit solutions.
EdgeCast Networks (http://edgecast.com/)
Started by tech entrepreneurs the company has close to 200 employees in Santa Monica
Nasty Gal (http://nastygal.com/)
Premier online destination for online fashion, raised $9m, and are growing at over 500% per year
Slash8 (http://slash8app.com)
Slash8 makes it extremely fast and easy to send or receive money, in person, using only smartphones; no cash, no cards, and no new hardware is required.
EXTENDED DESCRIPTION
ShoeDazzle (http://shoedazzle.com)
Southern California’s largest online shoe subscription eCommerce site Founded by visionary serial entrepreneur, Brian Lee (former Founder of LegalZoom and now The Honest Company). ShoeDazzle has seen meteoric growth and is one of the leading eCommerce companies in Los Angeles leveraging Kim Kardashian as the Chief Fashion Stylist and a team of celebrity stylists to recommend the best shoes, handbags, jewelry and more to style loving customers.
BetterWorks (http://betterworks.com)
BetterWorks is the fastest-growing cloud based, SaaS platform with the mission to “make work rewarding.” Funded by Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com) and a group of prominent early-stage investors including: SV Angel, executives at Google, Facebook and others. Incredibly experienced team of innovative founders: Paige Craig (Marine, Serial Entrepreneur, proven CEO and Angel Investor), Sizhao "Zao" Yang (Farmville, Zynga and angel investor) and George Ishii (early PayPal, Yammer & Geni.com, Kiva fellow).
Entrefusion (http://entrefusion.com)
We enable you to change the world with people you trust. Discover your friends hidden talents, share your projects, and connect into the startup ecosystem.
Through the network talented individuals across all skillsets can share their most recent work, find their entrepreneurially minded friends, and get feedback or create collaborations. It creates a visual portfolio that enables members to turn their passion into their full-time work by accelerating their own projects/ventures and connecting them with relevant startups. It is connecting the startup ecosystem to increase the speed at which we innovate.
Social Gaming Network, SGN (http://sgn.com)
SGN connects people around the world through great games. Lead by Chris DeWolfe, the cofounder of MySpace, they are one of the largest cross- platform gaming companies worldwide.
MySocialCloud (http://mysocialcloud.com)
Started by a USC student, MySocial Cloud now has a full team and high-profile investors such Richard Branson and Jerry Murdock. They provide cloud solutions to bookmarks and online passwords.
The Honest Company (http://honest.com)
Recently raised a $27M Series A led by General Catalyst Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Institutional Ventures Partners. The Honest Company (www.Honest.com), helmed by Jessica Alba, Christopher Gavigan, Brian Lee (Legalzoom, Shoedazzle), and Sean Kane, was created to ensure that parents have access to non-toxic, ecofriendly, beautiful family products that don’t break the bank. The Honest Company offers a monthly subscription service, through Honest.com, of customized product bundles including diapers, wipes, baby bath, skin care, and home cleaning products delivered directly to customer’s front doors. A percentage of sales is donated to Baby2Baby.org.
InTheMO (http://inthemo.com/)
InTheMO is an interactive think tank, full-scale production company and technology powerhouse. We develop projects from ideation through release and syndication entirely in-house: producing, shooting and editing all videos and designing and building all technologies. We have three product lines. It all began withInTheMO.com, the Company’s video-based local search business and contains one of the world’s largest libraries of high-quality local video content. InTheMO Interactive is the Company’s digital agency, where we are passionate about creating top-notch interactive experiences. We’ve worked with over 100 household brands, including Levi’s, W Hotels, Nike, Coca-Cola, Kraft, Heineken, Universal Music, Yahoo!, Armani Exchange and AEG.
Lumi (http://lumi.co)
Lumi is a small team of designers and engineers pioneering a revolutionary printing technology. Lumi's proprietary dye chemistry develops its color in sunlight, enabling simple and sustainable printing on natural materials such as cotton, leather and wood. We work closely with large fashion and home furnishing brands to design imagery and products printed with our process. We recently launched Inkodye, empowering people around the world to design their own Lumi-printed creations. Since its launch in December 2011, Inkodye has been sold in 44 countries and growing rapidly into a major retail presence.
We are looking for smart, independent thinkers who can jump in with both feet and see projects through from conception to completion. At Lumi you will be working closely with the founders of the company in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment at the heart of the Arts District in Los Angeles. Learn more about our design, engineering and marketing positions:
http://lumi.co/jobs
BlockBeacon (http://BlockBeacon.com/)
BlockBeacon is a communication platform enabling a hyper-local world of real-time commerce. For consumers, we are a real-time discovery tool that allows locals to tap into a live view of their city and discover amazing places to eat, drink, shop and play, right now. For merchants,BlockBeacon is a software platform that allows local store owners and managers to post live promotions and content directly to the BlockBeacon map on our website, mobile applications, and partner sites, reaching a truly local consumer audience that is orders of magnitude larger than the merchants potential reach on their own Social Media presences alone.
Bryn Neil (http://brynneil.com)
Bryn Neil International is a high growth technology staffing company headquartered in El Segundo, CA. We are growing extremely quickly, and are actively hiring energetic recruiters, the ideal job for an outgoing, social person. The work is fast paced and challenging, providing early client responsibility, an accelerated promotion path, a great training network, and significant financial rewards (attractive base salary, uncapped commissions, paid vacation/ sick days, healthcare and 401k). We provide equity participation for high performers, and because we only promote from within, we invest in our graduates to develop future leadership of our firm.
DocRun (http://docrun.com/)
DocRun allows individuals and small businesses to create highly-customized legal documents INSTANTLY, through our innovative artificial intelligence software. Our core purpose is to empower businesses and individuals by educating and enabling them to create proper documents without the expense of an attorney.
We’re proud of our fast-paced startup culture, and are seeking exceptional front end developers to join our world-class engineering team. We are also on the lookout for entrepreneurial-minded marketing interns to assist with exciting upcoming projects.
Wheelz (http://wheelz.com)
Wheelz is a venture-backed startup that is redefining the rules of mobility by introducing a better approach to personal transportation and car ownership. The Wheelz peer-to-peer campus car-sharing platform connects students that own cars on campus to students that would love access to a car. Car owners make extra cash each month by renting out their Wheelz by the hour or by the day, and the entire university community benefits from an alternative, sustainable transportation solution. Strategic partnerships and our innovative technology solution ensure the Wheelz experience is safe, easy and hassle-free.
OMAZE (http://omaze.co)
Omaze is an online marketplace for experiences that cannot be bought with the proceeds benefiting charitable initiatives: everything from playing 3-on-3 with Magic Johnson to hanging out in the writer’s room of Modern Family to spending a day with a Nobel Prize winning neuroscientist in the MIT robotics lab.
The experiences will be documented thru an ongoing video series that empowers the viewers to learn from the world’s most accomplished people. (Kind of like TED, but for those of us with ADD.)
Roozt (http://roozt.com/)
We are an online marketplace that connects trendsetting, cause-related brands with influential Gen Y online shoppers. Through the Roozt platform, customers can discover new brands, engage with their causes, purchase their products, and earn rewards for sharing with friends.
In a phrase, we're bringin' sexy back to giving back...
StartupTAP
We are Talent Acquisition Partners to Southern California’s high-growth, investor-backed technology and media startups. We work closely with entrepreneurs and business leaders during periods of hyper-growth to help them build and scale their companies. We help by recruiting top-caliber, startup-oriented talent across the organization.
ICON Aircraft (http://iconaircraft.com)
A consumer sport plane manufacturer founded in response to dramatic regulatory changes by the FAA. The company has received world-wide attention and numerous design awards for its innovative A5 amphibious aircraft. With over 700 advance orders and is rapidly moving towards production, ICON is looking for people to join a company with extremely high work standards, ethics and passion with a fun, entrepreneurial-minded, adrenaline fueled environment. Please view the company website to learn more:
www.iconaircraft.com.
Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. (http://dandb.com)
A $200M private-equity funded startup, led by Jeff Stibel (bio) and a very experienced, entrepreneurial executive team. Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. considers itself a 175 year-old startup. Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. is the leading provider of credit building and credibility solutions for businesses.
Nasty Gal (http://nastygal.com)
A premier online destination for high-fashion. The site is growing over 500% year over year, and rapidly building out their team based in downtown Los Angeles. Raised $9M led by Index Ventures (www.indexventures.com). The Company boasts over 200,000+ Facebook fans, 30,000+ Twitter followers, 50,000+ Instagram followers and a growing base of Pinterest users as part of their rapidly growing cult following.
EdgeCast Networks (http://edgecast.com)
The company was founded in 2006 by a group of proven technology entrepreneurs with years of experience building successful companies in the infrastructure, web services and application delivery space. EdgeCast has over 4000 global clients, been profitable since 2009 and quickly scaling with close to 200 employees in Santa Monica. Funded by Steamboat Ventures (www.steamboatvc.com) and Menlo Ventures (www.menloventures.com)
Slash8 (http://slash8app.com)
Slash8 makes it extremely fast and easy to send or receive money, in person, using only smartphones; no cash, no cards, and no new hardware is required. Dashing to the ATM or relying on IOUs will be a thing of the past.
Slash8 is also a way for businesses to accept fast payment while offering more customized features and benefits, while acquiring more useful data in less time, with lower effective fees than credit cards. Again, no new hardware is required.
Slash8 was founded by two Trojans, and we're looking for more ambitious individuals to join our team. We're recruiting hackers and hustlers who want to make real change happen. Engineering, business, marketing, and sales talent: please speak with us ASAP, as we're filling full-time, part-time, and internship opportunities now!