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Blackstone Expands Student Entrepreneurship Program To SoCal

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Private equity investment firm Blackstone said Friday that it is expanding its university entrepreneurship program, Blackstone LaunchPad , to Southern California. blackstone launchpad student entrepreneurship program ucla southern california entrepreneur startup business' Blackstone said it is supplying a $3.5M READ MORE>>.

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How TaskUs Is Powering LA's Technology Startup Boom

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I had worked a year in investment banking, and Jasper was out of USC. The two of us really wanted to be entrepreneurs. In 2008, we started to throw around ideas, and eventually settled on this one. We were really stubborn entrepreneurs, and worked at it for three years, because we were really determined to make it work.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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We will also have some of the top companies present that each of the panelist has invested in. Our Panelist Include: Brock Pierce - Starting & Investing in Bitcoin, Games, and Gambling Businesses. Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency.

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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

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We got a relatively large client in 2008, after three years of chugging along, and that's when we knew that was the business we should be focusing on. Stacy and Darren, our other co-founder who's not here right now, actually graduated from USC. Did you take investment initially? What were you doing before?