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JumpStartFund Names Hyperloop Effort

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JumpStartFund--which is based in El Segundo--said its community has voted to name the company Hyperloop Transportation Technologies , and also has tapped into ANSYS, GloCal Network Corporation, and UCLA"s Architecture and Urban Design program SUPRASTUDIO to work on the effort. READ MORE>>.

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MyLife Moves To Westwood

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Los Angeles-based MyLife.com , the online, unified social networking service headed by Jeff Tinsley, said today that it has moved to a new, corporate headquarters in Westwood. The new headquarters are among a cluster of technology companies who are just around the corner from UCLA. READ MORE>>.

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Accelerator Crazy In Southern California

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In just the last few weeks, at least five different incubation/acceleration efforts have booted up in the region. The group is a member of the TechStars Network, and boasts a who's who of successful local CEOs and investors. What's the latest craze in startups in Southern Califonia? It looks to be startup accelerators.

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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

TechCrunch LA

Founded by Steve Poizner last year to accelerate the growth of a startup entrepreneurial ecosystem in Southern California, The Alliance is building a network of investors, entrepreneurs and universities to provide ballast in the south to the dominance of the Northern California tech industry.

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Interview with Dave Eastman, Viterbi Startup Garage

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For today's interview, we spoke to Dave Eastman, the Director of the Viterbi Startup Garage, a startup incubator that is run by the University of Southern California, out of its location in Marina Del Rey. How are you different from other startup incubators, etc? It's not entirely exclusive, however.

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New Group Looks To Bridge Gap Between Research, Companies

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The new group, The Tech CEO Network , said it is looking to help bridge between the technology present at local schools like Caltech, UCLA, USC, UC Irvine, and other universities, and actual, viable companies. Tags: startups university research mentoring network tech.

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New Bootstrap Fund Pulls Itself Up in World of Health IT Deals

Xconomy

Healthtech entrepreneur Parker Hinshaw and his wife Jean Balgrosky said they intended to take a step back when they founded Bootstrap Incubation near San Diego in the fall of 2012. We started the incubator with the idea of helping people with ideas, and making some investments,” he said. Jean Balgrosky.