Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 21, 2014

Los Angeles is the only place in the US with a collegiate hackathon, an event where programmers spend hours together programming and building, of that scale and the LA Hacks team from UCLA made sure it was awesome. Sifting through the crowd, it was easy to see sweatshirts with Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, USC and many other universities.

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UCLA Los Angeles Snapchat USC 108

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

At the Technovation Challenge LA Pitch Night hosted by Iridescent , we saw six teams of high school girls from various Los Angeles City Schools pitch a number of mobile app ideas to a panel of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. Seek out similar academic competitions and programs. Don’t take no for an answer.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review USC 82

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

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. We grew out of an interesting use case.

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Journal USC News Startup 187

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

The group--which was started by Richard Koffler and John Morris , two well known investors in Los Angeles--has been trying to help connect CEOs with interesting university and other technology projects. That technology is coming out of USC's biomedical department, which is part of its School of Engineering. READ MORE>>.

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Networking Research Startup USC 215

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2012

The Los Angeles startup is looking to help connect travelers with local guides and hosts. We met at USC, and we had traveled a lot with study abroad programs. Aigerim Duiseneyeva: We met with Idealab through a USC Marshall competition. That's what TripTrotting (www.triptrotting.com) is hoping to fix.

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Startup Idealab USC Ideas 199

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

There's more competition, but there's a lot more available to you as a developer. Sherry Gunther: One of my very first investors is a member of the Tech Coast Angels, as was an investor that came on fairly recently. Plus, exposure through USC led me to the Tech Coast Angels. I found the process incredibly great.

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Media Tech Coast Angels Social Network Content 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. She can anticipate reactions to price increases or product changes by customers and she can sustain competitive challenges because she knows the customer will stick by her. He took a star receiver from USC in the college draft.

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Startup Coach Course Invest 150

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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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313