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Enrou: Combining Causes and Commerce To Help Improve The World

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I had worked along with some of these organization son the ground, who were employing people, providing microfinancing, education, and help. Hiptico also has a Mayan education fund, a great fund they support through purchases, to help put the children of the artisans into school with scholarships. What''s your big goal now?

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TX Zhuo Talks About LA's Newest Venture Fund, Karlin Ventures

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Specifically, we look at digital media, healthcare IT, e-commerce, education technology and financial services. We don't need for you to be breakeven company, but a business with paying customers is great validation in itself. I think the right team and network are very important, as is traction, validated by customers.

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

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The firm was bootstrapped several years ago, and is profitable, and its founders are both MBAs from UCLA Anderson, where they met. Ramit Varma: Jake (Neuberg), my business partner, met at UCLA's Anderson business school. Software is set to be transformative in the space of education. How did Revolution Prep start?

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

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There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. Elizabeth Amini: My first company was in graphic design, and provide both graphics for the entertainment industry, but also buildling websites for UCLA and all kinds of places around science, astrophysics, and those types of departments. It's fun an effective.

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Interview with Wes Brodsky, SaveFans

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Educate us, and explain what's different about how you are handling ticket sales and how that's different from the many others out there? When I graduated from UCLA in 1999, I started working for an accounting firm. It is now very, very customer friendly. It's Priceline meets Stubhub. We allow buyers to make offers to sellers.

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Interview with Richard Koffler and John Morris, The Tech CEO Network

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John Morris: I think it's trying to make a decent connection with customers, and trying to assess the size and viability of the market. It's trying to determine if there is a viable way to go to market, and also deal with competitive issues. At USC, there's probably five or six different touchpoints. Thanks, and good luck! READ MORE>>.

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WESAWIT | Experience Events Through The Eyes of The Crowd

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Thibault Mathieu: Morgan and I were both in film school at UCLA. The app was mainly to educate people what was going on in the world. We were initially covering events like sports and arts festivals when we first launched a beta version of the WESAWIT app at UCLA. TB: Well we went to UCLA and loved the weather here!