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Bridging The Gap Between Students And Startups, With TechLA

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Steve is helping to spearhead the efforts of TechLA Internships (techla.internships.com), an online site which lists local internships at high tech companies for college students. However, for students at USC, UCLA, and Caltech, that just doesn''t exist. That''s also true of UCLA. I think it''s also a little bit cultural.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3

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Pausing To Reflect: Veteran’s Day | Interview with Veteran and Tech Enthusiast Dustan Batton

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That’s about all I can tell you about the program, but I spent six months in tech school where I received classroom training in electrical theory and hands-on field training and learned two different system platforms we used at the time. Early on at UCLA I decided that I wanted to work on the political side of technology.