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Boulevard books $70M to help beauty and wellness salons with their bookings

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The pair posed as UCLA students doing research, Danna said, going from salon to salon asking questions about what worked and what did not with scheduling in their workplaces. They decided that this would be what they would tackle and build as a business. Things then took an investigative, plainclothes turn.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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Ali Khoshgozaran: Before we started the company, me and my partner had participated in the USC Viterbi startup competition. About 100 teams participated in that competition, and 10 teams were selected to be part of USC''s Viterbi Startup Garage program. An example of that is the UCLA flood. How did Tilofy come about?

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Interview with Wes Nichols, MarketShare

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For example, if you see a TV spot for Toyota, and then Google it, or you see a display ad on CNN and then open up a tab in your browser, talk about it on Facebook, or even walk into the dealership, we're able to quantify, very specifically, what combination of what kinds of media drove that sale and how that activity interacted with each other.

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Would you like to make Chrome your default Mac browser?

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Although the Internet was invented years before on the campus of UCLA, It wasn’t until Christmas day 1990 that Tim Berners-Lee , completed the first browser for the world wide web (on a NeXT computer). Gates and his very competitive team at Microsoft built a very good browser and gave it away free with their operating system.

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How TenOneTen Ventures Is Investing In LA's Technology Future

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Both Waxman and Elbaz are serial entrepreneurs, with many successes under their belt (Elbaz with Applied Semantics, which he sold to Google, Waxman with such companies as Firefly Networks, SpotRunner, and PeoplePC). There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. We have a lot of world class universities here.

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

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He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S. Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market. Buying Google keywords will be popular and expensive. from Carnegie Mellon University. GumGum has two clients, the ad agencies/brands and the publishers.

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LawKick: A Modern Way To Find Legal Help

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As part of that, we started asking professors for recommendations on who we could talk to, and we found out they only knew one person, or told us to check out a magazine, or Google this and that. We also have a couple of grad school interns from LMU, UCLA, and elsewhere.

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