Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Because the event was scheduled during Trojan Family Weekend, a weekend where parents and family from all over the nation come visit the USC campus, the event was filled with curious family members. This event was a competition, and judges began making their rounds around noon. Grief Center Market Traction Award ($2500): BriskRabbit.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

We talked with Noah about how the company grew out of a business plan competition at the University of Southern California, his recent funding from the Maverick Angels, as well as how the firm hopes to stand out among a crowded list of comparison shopping sites. How did the company start? Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC.

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USC CPC Sites Startup 207

InfoChachkie

AUGUST 11, 2014

Balance is also an extremely important factor among a founding startup team. Just like starting a company as a sole founder, it is possible to excel without a partner, it''s just a lot harder. Outside of the startup world, there is a partnership which has served humankind well since the beginning of time  marriage.

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Startup Santa Barbara Competition Journal 257

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

Most entrepreneurs struggle with many startup founders quandaries in building their business, and these key dilemmas are probably the biggest source of pain and failure for the entrepreneur lifestyle. People may jump into the lifestyle to be their own boss, achieve great wealth, start a new trend, or all the above.

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Startup USC Entrepreneur Statistics 97

socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

A number of teams have recently been looking to turn that vision into reality, as a result of the Qualcomm Tricorder Prize , a $10M competition being run by the X Prize Foundation to create a real life Tricorder. Mike Outmesguine: We''re one of about thirty teams left in the challenge, out of more than 300 that signed up last August.

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Startup Competition Software Review UCLA 262

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

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2012

For those who haven’t heard of what Startup Weekend is all about, it’s building a company on STEROIDS! From visualization to conception, and actually taking the product to market, a company usually takes about 1-2 years to create. Friday Night, people started trickling in at Coloft at 6pm. I was #33 to go up and pitch my idea.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

However, the recent surge in startup activity has attracted a lot more capital into the area, including a significant amount of capital from LA's latest fund: Karlin Ventures (www.karlinvc.com). How long have you been looking at this market? TX Zhuo: I started my own business out of college, an e-commerce company.

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Funding Startup Invest Commerce 253

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.

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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. However, we felt the pain that everywhere you go, particularly on tours, you end up ushered around places by people who are always trying to sell you things.

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Startup Idealab USC Ideas 199

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

SoCal startup Moving Analytics is tackling this global problem. Through simple design, extensive sensing mechanism research, and behavioral science principles, Moving Analytics is carving out its own innovative niche in a heavily competitive space by providing a simple solution for highly sedentary people. A walking interview?

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USC Southern California Activity Study 104

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. TechZulu caught up with the founder Mike Tringe and this is what he told us. Sara Akhteh received her BA in Film Theory from UCSC and her MFA from USC in Production.

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Web USC Course Guide 93

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Anti-AgingGames (www.Anti-AgingGames.com), a new online game startup, announced a new service to help users improve their memory and concentration, as well as improve brain function. There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. How did you end up starting the site?

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Study Startup Design Tips 252

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Los Angeles startup-- ArmorWay (www.armorwaycom)--is trying to take what has mostly been an esoteric computer science research area, and is now looking to make it applicable in real life. It was started at the University of Southern California in 2006-2007. We''re now scaling it up, and we''ve also filed seven patents in that process.

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Research Patents USC Software 100

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Having time to think about “leadership” at most startups feels like a luxury. The reality of most startups is about survival. If people don’t know the mission there is no way to achieve the objective and you end up with a team pulling in 100 different directions – even if only by small amounts.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

It's been awhile since we last caught up with Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), a venture-backed firm which develops language translation software, so we sat down the other day with Mark Tapling , the President and CEO of the firm, to hear more about where the company is nowadays--plus its strategy for growth and an exit.

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Software Review USC Content Tech Coast Angels 145

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

Their slideshow presentations addressed a number of questions about their products including target demographics, customer needs, marketing avenues, financial/revenue streams, leading competitors, and etc. Seek out similar academic competitions and programs. Don’t take no for an answer. Find a hero.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review USC 82

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

Most entrepreneurs struggle with many startup founders dilemmas in building their business, and these key dilemmas are probably the biggest source of pain and failure for the entrepreneur lifestyle. People may jump into the lifestyle to be their own boss, achieve great wealth, start a new trend, or all the above.

Entrepreneur 57

Entrepreneur USC Statistics Equity 57

Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Of course this can be done and of course I am a big proponent of the rise of startup centers across the country as the Internet has moved from the “infrastructure phase” to the “application phase” dominated by the three C’s: content, communications and commerce. ” But I think this misses the point.

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Company Companies Startup Snapchat 369

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Pasadena-based BigStage (www.bigstage.com) is one of those rare companies that has taken technology developed from university research, and is now bringing that technology to the commercial market. There's been an unusually complex amount of engineering, compared to a web media startup, but that's a good thing.

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Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

We spoke with Sherry Gunther, CEO and founder of the firm, earlier this week to get a better look at the company and the dynamics behind the virtual world market nowadays--as well as why Sherry decided to make the jump from the world of entertainment media to online. Why start another one? Can I be an editor? Can I be a tutor?

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Media Tech Coast Angels Social Network Content 150

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access. I’ve talked with many great NYC startups facing the same problem.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313