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BGP Forges Billion Dollar Brain Alliance in Los Angeles Startup Industry

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Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) May 23, 2013

Los Angeles’ leading tech incubator/accelerator Be Great Partners (BGP) has just announced the latest addition to their team of ten highly experienced and successful mentors: Joel Holland, Alex Zhardanovsky, Darcy Wedd, Gautam Gupta, Michael Krieger, David Santulli, Michael Orza, Alexander Debelov, Michael Mothner, Ola Danilina, Jeff Fissel, and Jeff Avallon. These professionals’ backgrounds will offer the portfolio companies under Be Great Partners great insight into their respective industries’ business development.

“We wanted to bring in a high caliber of professionals to help guide the vision, strategy, marketing, and development of our portfolio companies to build them into successful ventures,” says Lin Mao, CEO and Founder of Be Great Partners. “The team of mentors we have assembled have the potential to grow these startups to multi-million dollar companies, only furthering BGP’s mission to cultivate Los Angeles’ economic and technology sector.”

Joel Holland grew Video Blocks, the first subscription-based provider of stock video and audio, to the #4 Fastest Growing Media Company according to Inc. Magazine, making the prestigious Inc. 500 list. Holland has been named among BusinessWeek’s “Top 25 Entrepreneurs Under 25” and the United States Small Business Administration’s “Young Entrepreneur of the Year.”

Alex Zhardanovsky is an avid angel investor, having invested in over fourteen businesses and grown his past company he co-founded, Epic Advertising, to over $ 200 Million in annual sales. He is now Co-Founder of one of the fastest growing e-commerce companies, PetFlow.com, which is projected to reach over $ 50 Million in sales in its third year of operations.

A seasoned mobile executive with over sixteen years of experience, Darcy Wedd is the CEO and Founder of PayVia. Wedd holds past experience as a founding member of one of the fastest-growing carrier billing companies in North America that ultimately resulted in the creation of North America’s largest operator network billing provider.

Gautam Gupta is the Co-Founder andCEO of NatureBox, one of Be Great Partners’ newest portfolio companies’ CEO. Gupta is offering his knowledge to Be Great Partners. While a Principal at General Catalyst Partners, Gupta sourced and was involved with the investments in GoodData, PlumDistrict, BigCommerce, Shareaholic, Honest Company and FriendBuy. He has also worked at Proctor and Gamble, building his knowledge in brand strategy and consumer preferences.

Working with some of the largest wireless data communication, printer, and server synchronization clients as part of Kirton McConkie, Michael Krieger has practiced and perfected international intellectual property law. He is one of Utah’s Legal Elite and a Mountain States Super Lawyer for Intellectual Property.

Founder and Executive Director of United Planet, David Santulli is well versed in international affairs and business, having traveled to over 100 nations. He created the concept of Relational Diplomacy as a practical method to improve intercultural relations.

With BGP hosting many technological companies, Michael Orza is a key player as Founder and CEO of Webair, a service that provides businesses with viable web hosting, web development, and managed solutions for companies of all sizes. Webair is a global leader in the industry with datacenters located in New York, Los Angeles, Montreal and Amsterdam.

Demonstrating outstanding entrepreneurial understanding, Alexander Debelov, CEO of the online video advertising network Virool, was recognized as Babson College’s Most Outstanding Entrepreneurship Student, #1 place winner of John H. Muller Undergraduate Business Plan competition, and was named Top 5 College Entrepreneurs by Entrepreneur Magazine.

Leading the world’s top search engine marketing firm, Michael Mothner, CEO and Founder of Wpromote, launched a company that has been a member of the 2007, 2008, and 2009 Inc. 500/5000 list, with over 3,300% revenue growth from 2003 to 2008. Mothner was part of the “30 CEOs Under 30 To Watch” in 2007 by Inc. magazine, and the 2008 recipient of the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Entretech Award for Entrepreneurial Spirit.

Ola Danilina is the CEO and Founder of PMBC Group, a multi-tier public relations agency specializing in Corporate Communications PR and Technology PR. Whether the goal is to attract investors, excite shareholders, go public, go global, or build a brand, her company is the catalyst to a client’s public relations’ success.

Co-Founder of a software development company, Jeff Fissel serves as the Vice President of Business Development at KZO Innovations, playing a key role in select strategic accounts and corporate development activities. He is a member of the development team for the KZO technology, with his expertise in interactive streaming media technologies.

Jeff Avallon is the Co-Founder of an innovative and environmentally responsible whiteboard paint called IdeaPaint that transforms virtually any surface into a high-performance, dry erase canvas. With over 75,000 successful installations worldwide, IdeaPaint is the gold standard for dry erase performance, flexibility and environmental responsibility.

About Be Great Partners

Be Great Partners (BGP), the leading technology incubator in Los Angeles, has an active $ 6 million fund to expand LA’s startup ecosystem and bring the most talented tech startups and continued long-term job growth to Los Angeles, specifically its Miracle Mile. The company is seeking big data projects to invest an average capital ranging from $ 25,000 to $ 50,000, while providing the startups with strong mentorship, world-class facilities and a team of 25 innovative developers. Be Great Partners works directly with entrepreneurs to develop their project’s full potential.







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Industry expressed strong interest, investment institutions frequently Pharmaceutical Industry Extending an olive branch. In the recently held Shanghai Shanghai International Symposium on biotechnology and medicine, it was noted that many focus on the pharmaceutical industry, venture capital business owners optimistic about China’s development prospects, investment in China means the wind will be more Chinese characteristics. In Shenzhen, many pharmaceutical companies sought after by venture organization, is now settled that SAIF Asia Investment Fund and Shenzhen Capital Group Ltd, the two sides in the first phase of the Shenzhen Han Yu medicine to 15 million U.S. dollars investment .

Increase the amount of foreign investment

It is understood that the pharmaceutical industry was the first to introduce one of the areas of foreign investment, has about 4000 items total contract amount of more than 15 billion U.S. dollars. However, existing practical realization of investment projects in 1000-2000 amounted to 6 billion U.S. dollars.

Which foreign investment projects in China’s largest pharmaceutical settled down in Shenzhen. 2007, Sanofi? Aventis and the Shenzhen Municipal Government signed the establishment of influenza in Shenzhen Vaccine Production facility agreement, which is by far the largest foreign investment in bio-pharmaceutical projects, an investment of 700 million yuan. Sanofi Pasteur plans to start building the factory, goal for the Chinese market by 2012 production of seasonal influenza vaccine. Sanofi Pasteur to establish this new facility, the purpose is to prepare the event of a human influenza pandemic, or the World Health Organization (WHO) found that a new influenza pandemic strain of influenza during a pandemic vaccine can be produced. Plant design for the Chinese vaccine market is expected to grow leaves room for future expansion.

Experts say the trend of multinational investment in China to set up factories for the early show, from pharmaceutical production to development, distribution, from pharmaceuticals to medical services. According to the Shenzhen Development and Reform Bureau of the person in charge of the construction of Sanofi Pasteur vaccine facility in Shenzhen, is entirely different from the previous repackaging plant, which will bring all the vaccine production process are placed in Shenzhen, including raw materials procurement, production and manufacturing, production of vaccine are mainly exported to Asia, excluding Japan, is expected to reach 1 billion yuan annual output value. Sanofi Pasteur in history, this is the first in France and in vaccine production outside North America Industrial Investment, the company has become the localization of production in China’s first multinational vaccine producers. Can be said that the investment is from multinational companies to meet market demand in China and further extended to build a global production base. “

Actively involved in venture capital Although the return on investment the pharmaceutical industry

long period, high risk, but many focus on the pharmaceutical industry risk fund holders enthusiasm is unabated. Since last year, a number of pharmaceutical companies in South China investment body the wind phase, the Goldman Sachs investment Nepstar, Mindray WIIG investment, investment in the Guangzhou International Data Group, Sandia Hornsey pharmaceutical and medicine, the most recent is John SAIF Investment Yu.

Wind investment agency said, the investment return on the Chinese market than the U.S. market, in the amount of U.S. investment is often the single input high, efficiency is low, the Chinese pharmaceutical industry investment and the return of the wind pretty good. In the direction of investment, the venture investment for the company is more concerned about early. But investors pointed out that the medical information industry, investment, medical services for children and the elderly return faster, similar to the beauty of life can improve the quality of medical research and services are also popular.

In practice, venture funds in China to operate on specific projects and overseas are very different. A venture company partner, venture capital and business objectives will not change, but a number of small and medium enterprises in China for the way quicker ways to achieve goals is not clear, this is a bit worrying. The responsible person said: “We believe that existing technologies in the enterprise itself, a huge market where the key is suitable for transparent financial and human resources.”

Continuous influx of foreign capital in China at the time of the pharmaceutical industry, the capital has also been observed out how best to achieve and how to take a more diversified investment mergers and acquisitions, domestic laws and regulations and property rights trading market should be improved .

SAIF Asia Investment Fund chief Andrew Yan said in an interview, the positive role of foreign investment mainly reflected the improvement in the technical level, management improvement, product introduction, changes in corporate ownership structure and industrial structure change. He said: “We have more in business development and product development in the early stage investment, so no hurry to quit. If the exit, as A-share market re-financing capacity is rather poor, I think a more feasible approach is to bring to the overseas listed companies . ”

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