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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns. Next → Later today, the Startup UCLA accelerator will have its inaugural demo day. UCLA doesn’t aim to make a financial return. Being in its inaugural class, Startup UCLA is still sorting through its own identity and business model issues.

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JANUARY 28, 2013

NextBus supplies its systems to Los Angeles, Toronto, San Francisco, Washington DC, and Boston, in additoin to other customers like UCLA and MIT. Cubic is a diversified provider of defense, transportation, and RFID products with more than 7,800 employees. The firm's headquarters are in San Diego. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 28, 2017

We are seeing SaaS companies more and more are competing against other SaaS companies and experiencing more churn, price resistance and customer demand for customization. Peter has also been on the Faculty of UCLA Anderson for the past 10 years. He has a BA from University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from UCLA Anderson.

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

That includes Notre Dame, Oregon, UCLA, and others. We're the official mobile app for whatever our customer is. For example, we're the official mobile app of UCLA, even though behind the scenes is actually Hopscotch. Previous to this, I ran a custom, mobile application development shop. What do your apps do?

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JUNE 28, 2018

Founded by a former Pixar and DreamWorks animator, Rex Grignon, Nimble launched in 2014 and has raised just under $10 million from investors including the UCLA VC Fund and New Enterprise Associates, according to Crunchbase. “That worldwide reach is very important,” Grignon said.

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MARCH 27, 2013

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, April 25, at UCLA Korn Hall. CallFire provides Voice and SMS Solutions to over 40,000 customers including political groups, non-profits, insurance agents, small business owners, and marketers. The Entrepreneur Association is the largest student association at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

AppMyForm, an environmentally conscious new service offered by RGBmobile, enables any paper form to easily be converted into a customized Mobile Content Capture app, digital record and process launch mechanism. This Spotlight takes place Thursday, April 25, at UCLA Korn Hall. Custom ad deals and partnerships.

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AUGUST 9, 2012

Wednesday, August 15, 2012 -- OCAMA Signature Speaker Series - Peter Kraus, UCLA Anderson School of Business. Topic: "Word of Mouth in the Modern World - Selling in a Tempest" Times of adversity create the greatest opportunities.

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APRIL 13, 2021

The NSF determined eight to ten years ago that the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants they were funding to academic teams, to commercialize technology, they were losing, because not many academics had the background to understand how to go out and source customers, and did not know how to run a startup.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Thursday, November 13, 2008 -- "How to Engineer Tissues and Organs" Dr. Bill Tawil, UCLA Scientists are learning how to grow tissues in the lab and make customized replacement organs. See [link] (more).

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AUGUST 31, 2010

The German American Business Association (GABA) and Epic States, invite you to an exciting workshop and panel discussion focusing on the social media industry followed by a reception at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. For businesses, blogs and online video have become central to marketing to, and engaging with, customers and partners.

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MARCH 4, 2014

Sandra Itkoff – Entrepeneur in Residence, UCLA Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer. Mike Swords – Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives and Global Partnerships, UCLA. The work he performs is a mixture of research and enterprise, with UCLA being a hotbed petri dish of industry.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

With customer acquisition costs (CAC) rising significantly across most products, one company experimented with a few low-cost initiatives. Peter founded the annual Recurring Revenue Conference one of SoCals leading tech events and is a senior lecturer at UCLA Anderson School of Management. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2014

As I look back at insights I might share, I wade through the trite suggestions of ‘work hard’ and ‘treat the customer well.’ It was about the earliest days of our life together when we moved to Westwood so I could attend UCLA. I never took a business course, never wrote a business plan, and never raised any outside capital.

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Startup Software Review UCLA Sales 204

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JANUARY 23, 2009

Atiz said its customers include UCLA, and the Los Angeles Public Library, among others. The firm is taking aim at the increasing interest of libraries to digitize their book collections; among the higher profile efforts in this area are Google's online Book Search offering. Pricing on the firm's new product was not released.

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MAY 23, 2017

I had a programming job at UCLA at the time, working at UCLA Radiology. What we do, is we build a full-fidelity demo for a customer. We will take that to a customer, and show them what we have. He sold it to ArtistDirect for $42.5M I was renting a spare bedroom from him throughout that whole process for him.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2013

SWNext Los Angeles has teamed up with Cross Campus to host the 5-week class that will be led by the founder and CEO of QuantSoft, Wilton Risenhoover, who also teaches entrepreneurship at UCLA Extension. Customer Development. What you will get at NEXT: You will be taught the what, how, and why of the customer development process.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

One of the companies on that journey is Los Angeles-based Carbonics (www.carbonics.com), which is taking technology developed in the labs of USC and UCLA, and bringing it to use in the wireless semiconductor market. The company's CEO, Kos Galatsis , spoke to us a few years ago at the very beginning of their journey.

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APRIL 12, 2013

Starting off in Santa Monica at ROC for a fireside chat with CBS Interactive, then heading to Westwood at UCLA for Spotlight: LA Tech, and ending at NextSpace / Amplify LA in Venice for TechZulu Final Friday. This Spotlight takes place Thursday, April 25, at UCLA Korn Hall. Custom advertising deals and partnerships.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

We don't need for you to be breakeven company, but a business with paying customers is great validation in itself. I think the right team and network are very important, as is traction, validated by customers. If you walk down the hallways of UCLA or USC, and ask them for the successful startups here, they can't name anyone.

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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. We''ll be pushing that and showing proof of our campaigns leading into the holidays, engaging our current customer base, and we''ll have a pretty big launch of Enrou on the national level during the Spring of 2015.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

It's a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA.

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Twiistup GRP Partners Tips UCLA 124

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. The City of Glendale (www.thinkglendale.com). Need office or Tech Space? Think Glendale. Costello and Sons Insurance Brokers (www.costelloandsons.com). Technology. Advertisers.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

Will Facebook’s customers buy in? Speaking of Facebook’ s future, Ficus Kirkpatrick leads the company’s camera team, and he’ll talk about the company’s entry into AR — by augmenting customers’ smartphone cameras. She’ll discuss how the company plans to help Facebook kickstart its VR future. But where will Facebook’s AR journey lead?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Their unique “provide value to customers first” mantra sets them apart in the digital signage industry. An inadvertant bump led on the crowded Southwest flight prompted a conversation between Spitulski and Zhu, and by flight’s end, Zach had agreed to leave UCLA to join the startup. Focus on Value, Not Advertising.

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MARCH 1, 2013

My co-founder and CTO, Steven Corwin, is a graduate of UCLA's Electrical Engineering program, and built our program and lead the development of our technology platform. Your customer aren't used to using this kind of data to drive their marketing--how are they reacting to the analytics you can provide? Where's the service now?

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OCTOBER 24, 2013

How difficult has it been to get your customers to understand the exposure with SMS? Some of the first customers we had were in obstetrics. An example of this is you might be a physician at Cedars, but also be a physician at UCLA and a physician at St John''s. Healthcare looks a lot like an overlapping Venn diagram.

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Yammer Startup Mobile Organization 229

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JANUARY 14, 2011

Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities. Do your customers understand the need for your product, and has that been an issue? First off, for those not familiar with Marketshare -- what is it that you do?

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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!

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MARCH 26, 2014

We use a recurring revenue model, where a customer pays us a few hundred dollars on average. We were small, and had about ten engineers, providing customer solutions for businesses in Southern California. We went to college together at UCLA, and he was one of the early guys at Scour. doctors in small offices.

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APRIL 25, 2013

Campbell can custom tailor an experience around client and partner goals, and with bigger budgets from sponsorships, Mindshare can create even more epic events. The recent partnership with UCLA is what initially brought Mindshare to the Westside. as Mindshare plans to branch out.

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MAY 11, 2011

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. Back to the website, describe who the demographics are of your customers? It's fun an effective.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

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. It's really trying to make sense of who is the customer, how do we get to them, how big is the market. At USC, there's probably five or six different touchpoints.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Their unique “provide value to customers first” mantra sets them apart in the digital signage industry. An inadvertant bump led on the crowded Southwest flight prompted a conversation between Spitulski and Zhu, and by flight’s end, Zach had agreed to leave UCLA to join the startup. Focus on Value, Not Advertising.

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Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 81

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MAY 2, 2011

When I graduated from UCLA in 1999, I started working for an accounting firm. It is now very, very customer friendly. We allow buyers to make offers to sellers. How did you get into this business? Wes Brodsky: When I was in high school, I used to wait in line for a big ticket broker here in Los Angeles.

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DECEMBER 6, 2013

Customers know what works well and are frustrated by the lack of innovation in the industry. There’s a strong need to customize UI and car companies are realizing their $700 navigation systems just aren’t going to sell as well as a free app from Google. “Customers will govern that”, according to Jim.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

We also have a couple of grad school interns from LMU, UCLA, and elsewhere. Michael Chasin: The most challenging part of any startup is getting in front of people, and finding customers. It took us about six to eight months to build our first version, which we launch in July. It turns out lawyers are pretty easy to find.

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