SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns. Next → Later today, the Startup UCLA accelerator will have its inaugural demo day. UCLA doesn’t aim to make a financial return. Being in its inaugural class, Startup UCLA is still sorting through its own identity and business model issues.

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OCTOBER 5, 2011

Investors and universities are often very eager to figure out how to tap into those universities as a source of new companies, but often find its difficult to move research from the lab to an actual company. Adi Jaffe: I'm a UCLA addiction trained psychologist, specializing in addiction. First, what is All About Addiction about?

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APRIL 23, 2013

Be among the first to hear about the company’s STEAM Carnival, and how you can support this home-grown initiative. Spotlight Companies. Valarm is an Android mobile app and integrated suite of web-based tools that will track almost anything via GPS, and remotely monitor almost any environment via built-in and external sensors.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

I consider this trip the anniversary of the company’s starting up, and made the trip 11 years in a row. I’d often say: “I created the company so no one could fire me.” I had to be successful at my new software company. It was stressful and yet so typical when running a small company. And it wasn’t easy.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Backing Southern California's next great technology companies. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. PricewaterhouseCoopers' Vision To Reality Program for Emerging Tech Companies. Los Angeles-based executive search for emerging growth companies.

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MARCH 4, 2014

Sandra Itkoff – Entrepeneur in Residence, UCLA Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer. Mike Swords – Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives and Global Partnerships, UCLA. He reminds us that there was also a time when major companies like Washington Mutual, and Linen ‘n’ Things toppled.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

We spoke with Ali Khoshgozaran , founder and CEO of the company, to learn more about the startup. Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. We''re also using web articles and other data sources, and cross referencing those with location information.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

They can discover that event in the app, or soon, on our web platform, say--hey, this looks cool, the last event has some great pictures, looks like this might be fun--and they can buy tickets. Companies like Airbnb have been super successful. They then go over to the home, and have a great dining experience.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world this year?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

They can discover that event in the app, or soon, on our web platform, say--hey, this looks cool, the last event has some great pictures, looks like this might be fun--and they can buy tickets. Companies like Airbnb have been super successful. They then go over to the home, and have a great dining experience.

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Xconomy

JUNE 30, 2016

Just a few months earlier, Hinshaw had sold his private healthcare IT consulting company, MaxIT Healthcare, to government contractor SAIC for $473 million. Balgrosky, a health information administrator and former Scripps Health chief information officer, was finishing her doctorate in health policy and management at UCLA.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

But, in running it now for the second half of January, the keyword that popped to the top was: Layoffs And this is definitely a sign of the times.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

Recently, we learned about Solarmer Energy , a spinout of UCLA, which is developing flexible solar panels, and caught up with Woolas Hsieh , President and Founder of the firm and Dina Lozofsky , VP, Corporate Development at the firm to hear more about its emerging technology. How did this go from technology in a lab at UCLA, to a company?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2011

Join us tonight live at 8pm PST from UCLA Korn Hall for Digital LA’s Branded Entertainment panel right here on TechZulu. At Agility Studios, closed Puma deal for integration into director Jon Chu’s LXD dance web series, now at Paramount Digital. Scheduled speakers include. David Beebe, ABC Digital Studio.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Ive personally been involved in the start-up world in Los Angeles for about 15 years, and have had the opportunity to work on many early-stage companies (e.g.,

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. Whatever you’re trying to brand – your company, your community or yourself – this is the first exercise I would recommend that you start with. We’ll work our asses off and build huge companies that will define the next generation of American’s lives.”

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socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2019

Parker told us about the origins of its technology, and how the company hopes to use its technology to make a big impact on fossil energy use at heavy industrial facilities. Parker Wells: We do a lot of different things, but all of them are build around one core piece of technology, which we started working on at UCLA as researchers.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. This is my third company. What's his role with the company? You don't need a CD, or hardware, it's completely web based. You also have a background as a scientist at JPL?

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

We caught up with both Anne and John to learn more about the company. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. John Singleton: In reference to contests--one thing about our technology--is we have the only system like this on the web.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

We have spoken with the firm in the past, and the company recently raised some new funding and went through some reorganization, including moving the firm to Irvine. It seemed like we had enough assets there to do something interesting with the company. Since I've come to California, I've done a number of early stage startup companies.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 We spoke with Sunil Rajaraman, CEO and co-founder of the firm, about the company. Sunil Rajaraman: We provide free, web-based screenwriting software to aspiring writers and professionals in the community. We're targeting any company producing any short form video.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" This Panel will explore issues such as: How can companies best utilize social networking media? What are the risks and rewards?

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. Both are massively funding other LA tech companies through what Fred Wilson once defined as “recycled capital.”

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

At the same time, when I saw an old colleague at an event at UCLA a few weeks back, we both were discussing how hard we felt it was to predict success in this kind of venture. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. The poor guy.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Think about how many images are on the web. He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S. The old media companies were resistant to change. Perhaps one of the reasons it took 20 years for the commercial web to monetize images is because matching images with content is a very difficult.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

I think we've done some of the really exciting companies in LA, including most recently Clicker, Machinima, BUZZmedia, and SVnetwork. A lot of people don't know it, but we also have an early growth fund, Redpoint Omega, which also gives us the flexibility to invest as little as $50,000 in a company, which we do quite often.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 27, 2010

Wednesday January 27th Korn Hall UCLA. 6:00 – 6:30 PM: Leila Janah, founder and CEO of Samasource.org – Using the Web to Change the World. 6:30-9:00 PM: New Company “Wildcard” Demos on stage. They have also released their final agenda shown below: Twiistup 007 Agenda. Thursday January 28th Skirball Center.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. Fascinating that you are going against the trend of trying to make everything a web application. Your last two positions Google Photos and United Online were really big companies.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Their roster of success includes numerous pioneering tech companies, many of which continue to be industry leaders today — Overture, BillMeLater, CitySearch, and more. Fun Fact: A team from OKCupid works out of the space, as well as a few of the best civic-focused tech companies in LA. Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 28, 2012

. “Let us come together and celebrate…” The mashup theme was reflected in the SBF programming, which included panels highlighting accelerators, VCs, startups, developers, movies, TV, music, web content, art, fashion, social good, surf & skate, and more. Thanks to students and organizer UCLA comp sci Ph.D

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Many thanks to everyone who participated in last night’s Spotlight: LA Tech at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Gold Sponsor. .

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

The final showoff's have been selected, so that brings the count to a total of 10 showoff's plus a wild card from the demo night at UCLA (full list of showoff's below). Through Demand Media, Richard is redefining the next generation of new media companies. . And now what you have all been waiting for.the TechZulu Twiistup discount.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall is garnering some excellent companies being submitted and most of which I wish could all be part of this amazing night. He has contributed to the success of dozens of companies, including the funding and strategic acquisitions of Movoxx, Tsavo and People Media. Still Time to Submit Your Company!

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2008

How did the company come about? Aaron Hawkey: Essentially, the company was built off an idea I had in college. I was an electrical engineer, and had a tough time at UCLA getting access to resources I needed. Editor's note: Shai Reshef is the firm's angel investor, and sold his last company to educational firm Kaplan).

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Many thanks to everyone who participated in last night’s Spotlight: LA Tech at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Gold Sponsor. .

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 26, 2011

We’re looking for companies with new technology to demonstrate (or better yet, those with upcoming launches they wish to promote among savvy peers). TechZulu is ramping up to do it all again with an all new group of companies and a SuperDemo. This could be your company’s chance to shine in the Spotlight. mt) Media Temple, Inc.

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