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NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Tuesday, November 24, 2009 -- New Space Era: Global Competition, Transition to Private Projects and Space Tourism. This month's topic is "New Space Era: Global Competition, Transition to Private Projects and Space Tourism." Dr. Tsuyoshi Saotome (Ph.D. Tsuyoshi Saotome (Ph.D. Email stephen_tanaka@jetro.go.jp.

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Competition UCLA Email Los Angeles 100

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MARCH 1, 2013

With software developed, tested and turned in, the results of UCLA Anderson School of Management’s DEV Contest were announced on Sunday afternoon to a room full of smiling faces. Obviously these folks were serious about winning this competition, and had no time to worry about who the guy taking pictures with his iPhone.

UCLA 96

UCLA Ideas Yahoo Competition 96

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APRIL 20, 2018

The Los Angeles Business Council and the UCLA Lukin Center for Innovation says that the West Coast region's GDP growth rate "significantly exceeded" that of the rest of the nation--rising 32.1 According to the LABC and the UCLA study, the figures undercuts the argument that the U.S. percent, 26.5 percent and 34.6 percent.

UCLA 100

UCLA Study Los Angeles Competition 100

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

Two, Southern California companies have made the semi-finalist list for the much-watch Cisco Innovation Grand Challenge competition, which promises to give out $150,000 to a company developing the "next best thing" in the Internet-of-Things area. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California UCLA Competition San Diego 100

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OCTOBER 15, 2015

Two, Southern California companies have made the semi-finalist list for the much-watch Cisco Innovation Grand Challenge competition, which promises to give out $150,000 to a company developing the "next best thing" in the Internet-of-Things area. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California UCLA San Diego Competition 100

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MARCH 31, 2014

It isn’t the biggest secret that the University of Southern California (USC) Trojans and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Bruins aren’t the best of friends, especially on the football field. The pitch competition was split into two categories, a technology and nontechnology section.

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Startup USC UCLA Southern California 101

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

According to Pasadena-based green marketplace firm OnGreen , the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), UC Los Angeles (UCLA), and University of Southern California (USC) scored a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help foster student entrepreneurs via a business plan competition run by the group called First Look West.

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CalTech UCLA Southern California Pasadena 165

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Students from USC, UCLA, and Cal Tech will be attending Startup Equinox to form teams and compete in local startup and innovation competitions, such as MEPC, FLoW, the New Venture Seed Competition, LA Cleanweb Hackathon, and more.!! Participation in a competition is not a prerequisite for attending Startup Equinox.

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Startup USC UCLA Competition 113

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MAY 11, 2012

A group of university students from across the region were awarded a total of $200,000 in prize money via a business plan competition for clean technology businesses being driven by the California Institute of Technology and other local institutions, The First Look West regional business plan competition being run by the California Institute of Technology, (..)

Technology 184

Technology CalTech Tech Coast Angels Startup 184

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AUGUST 9, 2022

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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Help Startup UCLA Tool 195

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JANUARY 24, 2011

The firm was actually spawned out of a UCLA MBA business plan competition. Auditude is venture backed by Granite Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, Greylock Partners, and Redpoint Ventures; the appointment of Helfand came in conjunction with a new, $11M Series B funding round for Auditude.

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Woodland Hills Redpoint UCLA Advertising 177

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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. So, it was not a good situation.

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Startup Competition Software Review UCLA 262

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NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Car sharing startups have become immensely popular in areas such as Boston and San Francisco, with heavy competition between Zipcar, Relayrides, and Getaround. It also looks as if ZipCar apparently has been quitely running programs on the USC and UCLA campuses, limited to faculty, staff, and students.

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Los Angeles Angel Southern California Startup 213

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Wednesday, February 24, 2010 -- The Tech Coast Angels 5th Annual Fast Pitch Competition will take place on February 24th at UCLA Anderson School of Management.

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Tech Coast Angels Angel UCLA Tips 100

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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?

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USC Southern California Organization UCLA 236

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We went to junior high school and UCLA together. We were seniors at UCLA, and both of us in very different areas. Ann Wang: Thanks to the recent Forbes competition, and a lot of momentum from that, we actually are opening up a round for seed funding in the next month or two. How did you get together with your cofounder?

Commerce 140

Commerce Help UCLA Organization 140

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AUGUST 18, 2009

Recently, we learned about Solarmer Energy , a spinout of UCLA, which is developing flexible solar panels, and caught up with Woolas Hsieh , President and Founder of the firm and Dina Lozofsky , VP, Corporate Development at the firm to hear more about its emerging technology. How did this go from technology in a lab at UCLA, to a company?

UCLA 159

UCLA Technical Review El Monte Startup 159

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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. We want UCLA to be the top tech school that comes to mind.” And they did a good job with it.

UCLA 108

UCLA Los Angeles Snapchat USC 108

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Investors are very focused on diligence, on business models that make sense, and those companies that have a definite competitive advantage and defensibility to what they're doing. For example, our LA network is having the Fast Pitch on the 24th at UCLA. Before, when things were frothy, people were not as discerning as we are now.

Tech Coast Angels 231

Tech Coast Angels Technical Review Angel Southern California 231

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DECEMBER 26, 2019

We went out on a limb in a competitive category with Wheels, and we did it because we believed in the founders. in Business and Economics from the UCLA. Personal mobility and transportation innovation are absolutely massive issues for citiesespecially Los Angelesand we watch the categories closely. Brett received a B.A.

Southern California 100

Southern California News Platform Class 100

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. www.pitchtheangels.com) Join Tech Coast Angels members and other start up investors at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Fast Pitch Competition. Yarnell Design (www.masonyarnell.com/tech). Brilliant web and iPhone app design. Advertisers. Don't miss it!

Southern California 113

Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

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. TX Zhuo: I like the LA community a lot. Among investors, everyone is friendly, and more willing to co-invest. Valuation here are much more attractive too.

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Funding Startup Invest Commerce 253

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

Thibault Mathieu: Morgan and I were both in film school at UCLA. We were initially covering events like sports and arts festivals when we first launched a beta version of the WESAWIT app at UCLA. We were also really happy when we first launched our beta at UCLA. TB: Well we went to UCLA and loved the weather here!

Social Media 94

Social Media Startup Media UCLA 94

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MAY 11, 2011

There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. Elizabeth Amini: My first company was in graphic design, and provide both graphics for the entertainment industry, but also buildling websites for UCLA and all kinds of places around science, astrophysics, and those types of departments.

Study 252

Study Startup Design Tips 252

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MAY 2, 2011

When I graduated from UCLA in 1999, I started working for an accounting firm. Wes Brodsky: One of the benefits of having competition, is that the Stubhubs, Tickets.com, and Razorgator's have all solved that problem. We allow buyers to make offers to sellers. How did you get into this business? It looks the same in ticketing.

Ticketmaster 253

Ticketmaster Pricing Sales Startup 253

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MAY 2, 2013

There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. Although they might have more people in the field up in the Bay Area, there''s more competition for those people. We have a lot of world class universities here. I was just at USC yesterday, and they''re really focused on great things in science in engineering.

Invest 159

Invest Technology Startup Venture Capital 159

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JANUARY 2, 2014

We also have a couple of grad school interns from LMU, UCLA, and elsewhere. We''re talking about an industry which is very competitive, first, and two, one that people overwhelmingly try to avoid. It took us about six to eight months to build our first version, which we launch in July.

Help 240

Help Startup CTO Hire Pricing 240

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

It's trying to determine if there is a viable way to go to market, and also deal with competitive issues. When you think about it, working with the universities, it's not just talking with UCLA; it's talking with their engineering school, their medical school, their office of intellectual property.

Networking 215

Networking Research Startup USC 215

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

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. Targeting images and adding video content is a nice premium alternative to the traditional buys that are extremely competitive.

Advertising 98

Advertising Santa Monica Startup Content 98

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JANUARY 14, 2011

Wes Nichols: We probably have the greatest gathering of market scientists on the planet now, overseen by Dr. Dominique Hanssens, who is a prominent UCLA professor and specialist in the area of market response models. What is it you have figured out that allows you to do that correlation?

Social Media 235

Social Media Demand Activity Marketing 235

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

The firm was bootstrapped several years ago, and is profitable, and its founders are both MBAs from UCLA Anderson, where they met. Ramit Varma: Jake (Neuberg), my business partner, met at UCLA's Anderson business school. To hear about the company, we spoke with Ramit Varma , co-founder of the company. How did Revolution Prep start?

Software Review 178

Software Review Technical Review Education Startup 178

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.

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Java Google Web UCLA 49

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DECEMBER 17, 2008

We are trying to keep it competitive. I went to UCLA, and majored in English, and then worked in Hollywood for ten years, for companies such as CAA, Paramount, and Judd Apatow. What are your backgrounds, and how did you decide to start WordHustler? Anne Walls: Our backgrounds are different, and complementary.

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. How unique are you from the competition if you have any? What is TenHands and why the name?

Cloud Computing 65

Cloud Computing Software Platform Startup 65

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. It is the second largest city in the country with (18 million inhabitants) (vs. million in SF Bay Area ). Funding is different outside of Silicon Valley.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313