socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

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?

USC 236

USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

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.

Java 49

Java Google Web UCLA 49

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. 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. Buying Google keywords will be popular and expensive.

Advertising 98

Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

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. We are trying to keep it competitive.

Writing 209

Writing Hollywood Startup Sites 209

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The “ TenHands ” name emerged from the concept and philosophy of John Wooden, the UCLA basketball coach, who emphasized the value of teamwork and insisted that all ten hands (five players) touch the ball before shooting. Our client software is a true browser plug-in (no Flash) that’s based on Google’s WebRTC open source project.

Cloud Computing 65

Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

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.

Venture Capital 313

Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313