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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Los Angeles-based Tilofy (www.tilofy.com)--out of USC''s Viterbi Startup Garage--is doing just that, helping to highlight what is going on around you, by absorbing all of that location data out there at any particular time and place. My degree is from USC in big data. As you probably know, Viterbi is the engineering school at USC.

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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. Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC. How did the company start?

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

City Council President Eric Garcetti, to mark its entry into Los Angeles, the 16th market covered by the company. The introduction of Zipcar to the Los Angeles market would be a first for the mainline, peer-to-peer car sharing movement, which allows car owners to rent out their cars on an hour-by-hour basis to their neighbors.

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AUGUST 11, 2014

Earlier this year, researchers at USC proved the veracity of this old adage. For instance, a team comprised solely of engineers is greatly handicapped, as is a team exclusively made up of sales and marketing executives. The same foundational elements that lead to a successful marriage are precursors to startup success.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 8, 2022

In a famous Harvard study of 212 new ventures a few years ago, USC professor Noam Wasserman found that half the founders were no longer at the helm after three years, and over time 80% were forced out. The right time to jump is a function of favorable career, personal, and market circumstances. The right time to start dilemma.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

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. Today’s digital health consumer has so many choices on the market. This was run out of USC?

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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. That''s essentially how the Tricoder competition was formed--it''s time for this to happen. It was announced in the 90''s.

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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. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition.

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Journal USC News Startup 187

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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. Mike Tringe earned his BA in History and Science from Harvard, and his MFA in Film Production from USC. Who are its founders? What inspired you? How does it work?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

What we bring to the table is competitive analytics, where we consider your security adversary, and figure how they are trying to break your system, under different scenarios, and recommend a plan which optimizes your security strategy. What''s drove your decision to take this to market as a stand alone company?

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

How long have you been looking at this market? They're pretty competitive about deals. If you walk down the hallways of UCLA or USC, and ask them for the successful startups here, they can't name anyone. LA is small enough of a market that you can get a warm introduction to almost anyone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

In a famous Harvard study of 212 new ventures a few years ago, USC professor Noam Wasserman found that half the founders were no longer at the helm after three years, and over time 80% were forced out. The right time to jump is a function of favorable career, personal, and market circumstances. The right time to start dilemma.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2014

For example, Lookout is a mobile security company that was founded by three talented graduates of USC. A few years later they announced $150 million in a funding round at $1 billion+ valuation and are ramping up jobs to secure their market-leading position. No – I’m not worried about the competition.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

That technology is coming out of USC's biomedical department, which is part of its School of Engineering. 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. At USC, there's probably five or six different touchpoints.

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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

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MARCH 26, 2012

We met at USC, and we had traveled a lot with study abroad programs. Instead, we ended up at the usual floating markets, the white elephant. Aigerim Duiseneyeva: We met with Idealab through a USC Marshall competition. Aigerim Duiseneyeva: We met with Idealab through a USC Marshall competition.

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MAY 11, 2011

There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. My other, non-marketable skill included philosophy. As they improve their focus and memory, and as we find they become happier and self confident, those people actually do the marketing for us. This is my third company. How is the firm funded?

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Our continuing relationship with USC is precious in that regard. We've been able to harvest lots of scientific advances from Kevin Knight (editor's note: founder and Chief Scientist, and a researcher at USC's Information Sciences Institute), which we've been able to include in our business. We've been pretty happy.

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Software Review USC Content Tech Coast Angels 145

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

In a famous Harvard study of 212 new ventures a few years ago, USC professor Noam Wasserman found that half the founders were no longer at the helm after three years, and over time 80% were forced out. The right time to jump is a function of favorable career, personal, and market circumstances. The right time to start dilemma.

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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. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so.

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JULY 28, 2012

From visualization to conception, and actually taking the product to market, a company usually takes about 1-2 years to create. Before the pitches started, I ran into a fellow Trojan I knew who just graduated from USC, Nathan Doctor. Business Development (BD) worked on a business plan, market research and customer validation.

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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. Sherry Gunther: That's been the advantage of a maturing market space.

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JANUARY 1, 2016

But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. There are always flavors-of-the-month strategies or markets that are in favor in the tech startup world. We could all do better – I’m sure.

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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. We spoke with Phil Ressler--a former venture capitalist from Clearstone Ventures--who is now CEO of BigStage.

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