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Blackstone Expands Student Entrepreneurship Program To SoCal

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grant, to be given to a partnership including UCLA, UC Irvine, USC, and the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC), to connect university students with a network of venture coaches. blackstone launchpad student entrepreneurship program ucla southern california entrepreneur startup business' READ MORE>>.

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Entrepreneur of the Year - Marshall School of Business

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Thursday, October 30, 2008 -- USC Entrepreneur of the Year - Marshall School of Business. Richard Rosenblatt, Demand Media, shares his journey with a time for QandA. Email claudia.morataya@marshall.usc.edu.

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Social Innovation Fast Pitch and Showcase

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008 -- Social Innovation Fast Pitch and Showcase. Los Angeles Social Venture Partners, the Social Enterprise Institute, and the USC Stevens Institute for Innovation.

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Streamlining The Sports Recruiting Process with FieldLevel

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When we arrived at USC, we began to talk about how we struggled during the recruiting process. Our coaches did not have relationships, and I ended up walking onto the USC baseball team, and Kai ended up walking onto their club lacrosse team. How''d you get over that hurdle? We actually sat with tons of junior college baseball coaches.

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Green Building

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Saturday, November 8, 2008 -- "Green Building: Where are Spaces for Entrepreneurship in Green Building?" The opportunities for entrepreneurs are here now and more are coming, but what are they? Green Building Council-Los Angeles Chapter; Roberto Alvarez, Light Prescription Innovators; Dr. Yan Xiao, USC; Eric L. Williams, Ph.

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Interview with Tom Grasty, Stroome

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Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. Tom Grasty: Essentially, we started off as a graduate school project at USC. It ran in April of 2008. READ MORE>>.

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How TaskUs Is Powering LA's Technology Startup Boom

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I had worked a year in investment banking, and Jasper was out of USC. The two of us really wanted to be entrepreneurs. In 2008, we started to throw around ideas, and eventually settled on this one. We were really stubborn entrepreneurs, and worked at it for three years, because we were really determined to make it work.

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