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Caltech, UCLA, UCSD Rank Highly On Tech Transfer Ranking

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The California Insitute of Technology (Caltech), the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of San Diego (UCSD) have all ranked very highly on a new ranking of universities for their technology transfer efforts, issued by The Milken Insitute , the Santa Monica-based thinktank.

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Four Founders of Hot Startups With Links To Southern California

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Anyone who has been in the technology industry for awhile has heard that oft repeated myth , that most startup founders in Silicon Valley are from Stanford. Here are four startup founders, who are among the hottest companies in the technology world, who got their start in Southern California. Aaron Levie. CEO and co-founder of Box.

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HelloTech Expands Tech Support Service To San Diego

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HelloTech taps a work force of college students, who provide in-person technical support to users, with everything from computers to home automation technology. HelloTech says its workforce has come from such local schools as UCLA, USC, along with community colleges and trade schools.

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

TechCrunch LA

Recognizing the tens of billions of dollars that the Southern Californian region leaves on the table, because it hasn’t taken its rightful place in the American technology industry, a new group called the Alliance for Southern California Innovation has just released a report to analyze how SoCal can work to assume its pole position.

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On Funding?—?The Denominator Effect

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Let’s assume that you’re a reasonably well-connected person, you have a strong network of friends & colleagues who work in the technology sector and you have many friends who are investors either professionally or as individuals. You’ll find engineers out of MIT, Stanford, Harvard, UCSD, Caltech or execs out of UCLA, Spelman, NYU, etc.

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Four Founders of Hot Startup With Links To Southern California

socalTECH

Anyone who has been in the technology indusry for awhile has heard that oft repeated myth , that most startup founders in Silicon Valley are from Stanford. Here are four startup founders, who are among the hottest companies in the technology world, who got their start in Southern California. Aaron Levie. CEO and co-founder of Box.

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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

SoCal CTO

VentureNet – Great annual event by the Technology Council. They put on great events. CalTech MIT Enterprise Forum – Great events on various topics – there's one this Saturday that would be great to go to. You can use keywords like: Events in Los Angeles or Southern California Events or even Santa Monica Events.