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

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Our research revealed a saturation level causing unprecedented challenges, starting with exorbitant housing prices and runaway operating costs that accelerate a startup’s “burn rate”—its monthly spending. Suster has also noted for years that the region produces more technology doctorates than any other geography in the United States.

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Makers Making The Sci-Fi Tricorder A Reality With VOXearch

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Unfortunately, those providers decided the gold leads were expensive, and decided to use a Chinese vendor which would provide them at half price. Mann, to his credit, with his multi-billion dollar foundation, he offered to find out what was going on, offering $100 million to UCLA to find out what was going on.

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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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I then became and EIR at UC San Diego, and joined EvoNexus, the not-for-profit incubator run by the Irvine Company. Just think what you could do if you had the top technologists from Caltech, UCLA, and the whole list presenting their major research to a room full of entrepreneurs looking for their next startup. It's a great place.

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Challenge of Predicting Winners

SoCal CTO

At the same time, when I saw an old colleague at an event at UCLA a few weeks back, we both were discussing how hard we felt it was to predict success in this kind of venture. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. The poor guy. What a bad $200M decision. Why did YouTube win?

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA). I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. I tell people regularly that I only invest in companies where the DNA is software.

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Innovation and Geography

SoCal CTO

Some events, like a recent Tech Coast Angel event at UCLA are really worth it. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -. Evening events in Orange County require about 2 hours of round trip drive time. It has to be a pretty good event for it to be worth attending.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

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OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Where: UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Price: $15 (Early Bird). Dinesh earned his B.S. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m.