SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Angel City Data has deployed over 2,000 custom desktop, web and mobile software solutions for clients such as Apple, Disney, Warner Bros., Harvard, Caltech, UCLA, USC, the BBC, and NASA. The City of Burbank, in partnership with TechFire is featuring a Burbank tech success story, Angel City Data's Founder and President, David Knight.

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Burbank Angel CalTech USC 100

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC. The site started as a concept that Jeff Nobbs, my co-founder, and myself developed while we were operating a cash-back and coupon website while we were attending USC. Noah Auerhahn: We just had too much free time at USC. Noah Auerhahn: Our difference, is we're customer centric.

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USC CPC Sites Startup 207

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JULY 22, 2014

We spent a morning talking about the transition from being an engineer to being an entrepreneur, having the distinction of being the first digital health startup to emerge from USC Viterbi’s Startup Garage , and drilling down to what really matters in all of our entrepreneurial efforts – listening to consumers. This was run out of USC?

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APRIL 12, 2011

How do ideas shift from diversion to custom to belief? Friday, April 15, 2011 -- The Future of Folklore. Will Rebecca Black and the Light Saber Guy be the folktales of tomorrow? The task of a folklorist is to complicate our myths and scrutinize our stories. What do our legends tell us about ourselves? See [link] (more)

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USC Ideas Custom Customer 113

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APRIL 30, 2014

In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies. The University of Southern California is home to many innovative students and companies.

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Competition Startup USC Southern California 104

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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Los Angeles-based Alelo , a USC spinout developing foreign language and culture training tools, said this week that it has opened an office in Suffolk, Virginia. The firm said the new office was opened to better serve government customers interested in its products. The new center is in the Virginia Model and Simulation Center (VMASC).

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Training USC Los Angeles Tool 133

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APRIL 4, 2013

When we arrived at USC, we began to talk about how we struggled during the recruiting process. Our coaches did not have relationships, and I ended up walking onto the USC baseball team, and Kai ended up walking onto their club lacrosse team. Form there, we got interest from incubators, angel investors, and venture capital.

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Coach USC Statistics Startup 252

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Anna Sergeeva: After we raised a round of funding from the Tech Coast Angels and USC, we spent a few months really getting to know the events space. Anna Sergeeva: I think it's really important to listen to your customers. As entrepreneurs, you like to say you work for yourself, but you really work for your customers.

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Tech Coast Angels Organization Platform USC 191

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AUGUST 26, 2016

That allows our customers in e-commerce to be able to take a single item, or one or two from the shelf for delivery to customers. Lior Elazary: We started at USC, working on various robotics related products. Lior Elazary: We started at USC, working on various robotics related products. Where did the technology come from?

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Artificial Inteligence Commerce Startup USC 100

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MARCH 19, 2019

We started focusing on that, and at the time we were doing only phone verification, but then we started adding in data analytics because of customer demand, we added in some other things like straight messaging rather than pin codes. Stacy and Darren, our other co-founder who's not here right now, actually graduated from USC.

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Marina Del Rey Software Review Startup Incubator 113

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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. You can’t have it all, just like your startup can’t be all things to all customers.

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Startup USC Entrepreneur Equity 130

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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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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I also went to USC to get a Ph.D. Now, we're giving the solution to a lot of our customers to be able to support that growth, to support the requirements so people don't have to do that shopping themselves. How are you finding customer reception for this technology? Lior Elazary: I'm a serial entrepreneur.

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Startup Westlake Village Commerce Seed Funding 113

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Mike Tringe earned his BA in History and Science from Harvard, and his MFA in Film Production from USC. He’s worked as an English and Film teacher at the American School of Tangier, and has also assistant taught film production at USC. 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

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APRIL 21, 2009

The new content deal also came in conjunction with new features which allow users to add their own, custom backgrounds into BigStage's site. Big Stage is a spinout of technology from USC, originally developed for the CIA.

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Content Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures USC 100

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AUGUST 7, 2014

Bryce Maddock: TaskUs is the best provider in the world of customer care and back office services for emerging growth companies. Customer care, obviously, is emails, phone calls, and customer service back office services. I had worked a year in investment banking, and Jasper was out of USC. READ MORE>>.

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Startup Technology Outsource Santa Monica 231

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MARCH 14, 2011

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. What is Laughstub? Scot Richardson: In a nutshell, we're a WordPress for venues.

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Ticketmaster CTO Hire Tech Coast Angels Social Media 140

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Originally, you had a lot of government customers, and were just starting out with a few commercial customers. Our continuing relationship with USC is precious in that regard. We calibrated that to our customers own, native speakers, who scored them, so that everyone has trust in the score. What's the mix now?

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USC Software Review Content Customer 145

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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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Funding Startup Invest Commerce 253

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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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Networking Research Startup USC 215

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FEBRUARY 27, 2015

Our current customers and users had a very high desire to make it available, and so we developed the company to deliver the product. That''s what the patents and research at USC were all about, about applied Game Theory, being able to solve complex problems in a very effective and timely manner. You can''t do it in real time.

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Research Patents USC Software 100

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. You can’t have it all, just like your startup can’t be all things to all customers.

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Startup USC Statistics Entrepreneur 97

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OCTOBER 21, 2019

I had been at USC, at the Etnrepreneurship program. I was born and was raised in California, in Central California, and came down here for USC and never left. You've got some pretty high profile customershow did you get them to sign up in such a short time? How did you decide this was worth creating a company out of the idea?

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Advertising Santa Monica Startup USC 100

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MAY 11, 2011

Back to the website, describe who the demographics are of your customers? You mentioned earlier that the customers you are targeting tend to be pretty busy-- what's your strategy to get those customers to sign up and stay? We actually wrote the business plan in a business plan class at USC. It's fun an effective.

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Study Startup Design Tips 252

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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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Startup Southern California UCLA Incubator 100

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MARCH 24, 2010

Plus, we provide all of the back end fulfillment--it's soup to nuts--from manufacturing, to fulfillment, to customer service. Brandon Hance: I was actually a student athlete, a quarterback at USC, and was on a couple of the national teams. There are lots of custom merchandise sites out there--how do you compete?

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Tech Coast Angels Van Nuys Startup Web 191

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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. The girls gave their live slideshow pitches with cheeky excitement, using skits and live acting to show the need for their products.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review USC 82

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JULY 29, 2016

There's an opportunity to help entrepreneurs and startups here partner with manufacturers, and connect with customers and suppliers. In a similar way, I played that role in academia, at both USC and MIT. We found that entrepreneurs can really help drive manufacturing, and that excites me a lot.

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Startup Study Hollywood Examples 100

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

The amateur is probably our target customer, but a professional also looking to transition to digital would also be pretty interested in what we are doing. Michael Tringe: I went to USC film school, and graduated with a MFA in film production. What's your background?

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Web Content Startup Education 187

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Brandon Hance , Founder and CEO of Los Angeles based GoodThreads , went through college as a student athlete playing football for USC while studying business. Brandon and his team are always continuing to build and develop key partnerships with heavier and customized integrations. Online Awareness.

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Technology Framework USC Platform 95

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MAY 23, 2017

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. It essentially costs us $100,000 to build that unit, and we'll bring it to the customer, and show them what we have created, and ask them�how do you like this? What's the biggest challenge for you?

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Startup Southern California UCLA Technical Review 113

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. You can’t have it all, just like your startup can’t be all things to all customers.

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Entrepreneur USC Equity Statistics 57

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JULY 16, 2013

By using SteelHouse, ecommerce sites can use live data to instantly respond to a customer’s wants and needs for stronger transaction values, increased conversion rates, and an overall better customer experience. Fun Fact: Technology is in their DNA. Edutech: The Viterbi Student Institute for Innovation.

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Startup Snapchat Social Media Venice 111

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JULY 28, 2012

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. Two of the developers that were going to join me decided to continue on with their idea since they already had a team.

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Startup Technical Advisors Ideas USC 99

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MARCH 4, 2014

Between Caltech, USC, and UCLA, $1 billion has been put into research expenditures. Connecting investors to researchers, connecting double-bottom-line entrepreneurial ventures to their customers, etc. He explains that climate change has definitely driven a lot of the issues and created the need for sustainable technologies.

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UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

A great leader knows customers and has direct relationships with them. She can anticipate reactions to price increases or product changes by customers and she can sustain competitive challenges because she knows the customer will stick by her. He took a star receiver from USC in the college draft. Team Building.

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Startup Coach Course Invest 150

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MAY 15, 2009

He handles strategic partnerships and enterprise agreements with large corporate customers, as well as serving as the company's in-house general counsel. Dr. Karrer graduated from Loyola Marymount University (Valedictorian), then attended USC as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S.

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Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150