socalTECH

AUGUST 26, 2014

The National Science Foundation is planning to create a new, innovation center in Los Angeles, in conjunction with the University of Southern California , the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) , and the University of California Los Angeles , the NSF said this morning. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 18, 2019

Leonard Kleinrock is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. After we typed the first two letters from our computer room at UCLA, namely, “Lo” for “Login,” the network crashed. On the other hand, it has led to excess and control in a number of domains.

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socalTECH

MAY 29, 2013

A local, clean energy business plan competition started by the California Insitute of Technology (Caltech), the University of Southern California (USC), and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has awarded $160,000 in prizes in its latest competition. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 13, 2016

CENIC (Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California) runs the California Research and Education Network (CalREN) , which connects such institutions as Caltech, UCLA, USC, Cal State LA, and the Los Angeles Community Colleges, as well as K-20 students and educators.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

A new competition--part of the Startup America effort launched by the Obama Administration, and spearheaded locally by Caltech, USC, and UCLA--said today that it is looking to award $200,000 in prize money to university students with clean energy business ideas. DOE, being managed by OnGreen, UCLA, USC, and Caltech. READ MORE>>.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 17, 2015

Specifically, it was built with the express goal of bringing to life an online learning platform purpose-built for the arts and creative technologies. It’s also open to learners from anywhere in the world, giving unprecedented access to educational resources some may never have dreamed they’d be able to attain. Ajay Kapur, Ph.D,

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software that particularly caught your eye in 2017? READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

Despite a growing technology industry here in Southern California, local investors and entrepreneurs tell us there''s still a shortage of local, venture capital. In particular, funding for companies developing deep technology--software and cloud, as opposed to content and media--seems to be lacking.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2013

In a sign of the growth of the Silicon Beach technology world, last year, Google moved its headquarters out of a space on Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, and into a new fancy headquarters space in Venice. We do none of our own events, none of our own education, and none of our own acceleration. What's the idea with ROC?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Three local universities, plus a Pasadena-based startup, have received a $360,000 grant to promote student entrepreneurship in clean technology. Department of Energy to help foster student entrepreneurs via a business plan competition run by the group called First Look West. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

One of Southern California's biggest assets are the number of world class, local universities researching and developing technology and knowledge across a large number of disciplines. Adi Jaffe: I'm a UCLA addiction trained psychologist, specializing in addiction. How is this related to the work you were doing at UCLA?

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socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. I developed the idea over the summer, articulated the vision, drew out the site, and then teamed up with other students at UCLA and started developing KarmaGoat.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 20, 2011

LA Cleantech Incubator , officially launched last week, and was created by Los Angeles Cleantech Alliance, a group supported by Mayor's Office, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Community Redevelopment Agency for Los Angeles, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, UCLA, USC, CalTech, and Arts Center College of Design.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

Join us for an evening of demonstrations from vetted technology startups, followed by an inspiring keynote from Two Bit Circus Co-Founder, Brent Bushnell. Two Bit Circus combines engineering, education, and amusement to create physical marvels fueled by technology. It’s a gallery of great entrepreneurship.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

That's the idea behind the technology being developed by Pasadena-based ObEN (www.oben.me), which is led by co-founde rand CEO Nikhil Jain. The goal has to make the technology really accessible using the power of the smartphone, and bringing people into AR and VR as no one has done before in such a way. That was how it started out.

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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. We're looking for inventors interested in commercializing and spinning out their technology into a company. Thanks for the time today.

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socalTECH

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. On the SAT/ACT side, in classroom tutoring, we have used our technology to automate the back office.

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LATechDigest

MAY 30, 2016

Students & Educators — Win $25k in THE MAYOR’S CUP ( link ). Thnx for sharing ur experience w/us @acrowder33 @VNTANAlive @CrossCampusLA @InnovatPasadena #technology #startup pic.twitter.com/W3j07hqzNt. UCLA ANDERSON Hosted a VR / VC Event. Congrats to UCLA Computer Science Grad JUSTINE BATEMAN !

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

According to Mike, startups have an uphill battle recruiting from college campuses, including fighting over the best students with big name technology firm. Mike Gammarino: I'm an entrepreneur who has been working in technology since I graduated. I'm actually an industrial engineer by education.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Specifically, we look at digital media, healthcare IT, e-commerce, education technology and financial services. If you walk down the hallways of UCLA or USC, and ask them for the successful startups here, they can't name anyone. We focus on a lot of sectors, but the geography is more important to us than the industry.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

Educate us, and explain what's different about how you are handling ticket sales and how that's different from the many others out there? When I graduated from UCLA in 1999, I started working for an accounting firm. We're also building out our platform, leveraging new technology like mobile and social technology.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

An innovator in technology, especially monetization. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. ” To me, LA will always be a creative hub for TV, film, music, video games and now technology. NYC has gotten a lead on us in the perception of creating a next generation technology hub and with good reason.

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AeA Los Angeles Council

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

The AeA is putting on an event 03/20/08 from 5:30pm to 8:00pm designed to educate & engage high technology companies on the existing & emerging issues in "going green."

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

And I realized that technology was bringing us closer. After a short stint at a community college for some credits I needed, I was accepted to UCLA. That’s why I’m so interested in technology. Early on at UCLA I decided that I wanted to work on the political side of technology. MM: What happened next?

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

This second annual fest brings together technology leaders, startup CEOs, investors, Hollywood studio executives, entrepreneurs, developers, students and more to celebrate LA’s dynamic technology industries with panels, workshops, hackathon, mixers, and a start-up showcase spotlighting 40 local startups.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

Thibault Mathieu: Morgan and I were both in film school at UCLA. The app was mainly to educate people what was going on in the world. We were initially covering events like sports and arts festivals when we first launched a beta version of the WESAWIT app at UCLA. TB: Well we went to UCLA and loved the weather here!

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. He was raised and educated in London. He is known for being able to monetize the social web.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA). But in the end we selected David Lin , a superstar who did 4 years at the technology investment banking firm Montgomery & Co and 4 years as Director of Strategy at the comparison shopping site PriceGrabber where he dealt with many operational issues.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Alex serves on the Board of Directors for Logsdon School, a non-profit school providing educational services to students with special needs. If you’d like to see some of the best technologies and meet some of the brightest minds in beautiful Southern California, SIGN UP NOW. To explore how new technologies impact society.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

We're always interested in how technology is influencing the business of Hollywood, and recently ran across Los Angeles-based Scripped. I went to UCLA Business School, and just graduated this past June. Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 A large portion of our users are students.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. Los Angeles offers a great deal, both in terms of business opportunities and lifestyle awesomeness.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 31, 2010

This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. Talk us through how the person using your product is benefiting through your technology. Don’t confuse this with a tour-de-force education on the finer details of how your company operations. They simply need to know: who has a problem?

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