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Anonymous Social Media App Nets $550,000

L.A. Business Journal

Founders Bootcamp is a venture studio focused solely on high school entrepreneurs and run out of the UCLA Anderson School of Management’s Cross-Campus space. Santa Monica-based Trill Project, founded by four high-schoolers who want to make social media safer, received on Aug. 15 a total $550,000 in a seed round led by Founders Bootcamp.

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UCLA Looks To Tap Social Networks In Teen Health Effort

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The UCLA School of Public Health is looking to tap into the power of social networks, in an attempt to encourage adolescents from 13 to 17 to take better care of their health. UCLA and Health Net said the effort is being funded by a $1.1M Tags: ucla.

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Abraxis Founder Pledges $100M To Reopoen MLK Jr. Hospital

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Soon-Shiong has an estimated net worth of over $5.5 billion, and is executive director of the UCLA Wireless Health Institute and a visiting professor at the school.

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Tracing the ARPANET Roots of the Internet’s Cybersecurity Crisis

Xconomy

Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. ] [ Editor’s note: This is part of a series examining the internet’s first 50 years and predicting the next half century. The internet nearly came with built-in caller ID.

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Special Report 2069: Predicting the Internet’s Next 50 Years

Xconomy

Join Xconomy and World Frontiers Forum on July 16 for Net@50 , an event exploring the internet’s past and future. [ Editor’s note: This is part of a series examining the internet’s first 50 years and predicting the next half century.

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Catching Up With Mike Giardello, President of Innovate Pasadena

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There are also many from USC and UCLA. I think it's healthy to have companies moving in and out of the area, as long as we have net ins into the ecosystem. We've had substantial net growth over the last several years. The important thing to realize, is we are not just an isolated island.

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

Both Sides of the Table

But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. As a result we have a large number of locally employed engineers with video experience that will fuel the next boom of the Internet (Americans watch 5.3 What Do We See From the Road Ahead? The infrastructure phase of the Internet is over.