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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Of course that’s not disputable. Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. He built & IPOd Demand Media. To some extent – of course they are. The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here.

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Interview with Dave Eastman, Viterbi Startup Garage

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Those companies tend to be around for longer than one year, because of course our faculty are not working on those things full time, they're continuing to teach classes. There are 9 innovation nodes in the US associated with I-Corp, and one of those nodes is out of the Viterbi School of Engineering, with UCLA and Caltech partners in that.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. And now, of course, UberSocial, Bill’s latest project. They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand.