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PitchFest 2011

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, November 17, 2011 -- Business Plan Competition and Dinner Be a VC! Join SDVG at the annual PitchFest Business Plan Competition to take part in funding promising Southern California companies. To apply, visit the PitchFest 2011 page. Based on your vote, SDVG will present the winners with a check that night!

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Conejo Robotics at the 2011 FRC

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, April 13, 2011 -- Conejo Robotics at the 2011 FRC. The Conejo Robotics Club discusses their entry and the results in the 2011 FIRST Robotics Competition Wed. IEEE Buenaventura Section. eve, 16 April. See [link] (more)

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USC Team Heads To Rice Business Plan Competition

socalTECH

A student team from the University of Southern California is one of forty two teams heading to the 2011 Rice University Business Plan Competition in April. Rice named the teams it had selected this week, who are competing for $1M in prizes.

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Interview with Fariborz Maseeh, Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition

socalTECH

Last week, the University of Southern California 's Viterbi School of Engineering announced that it had established a new, business plan competition, the Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition ([link] specifically aimed at students in the engineering school. Why a business plan competition, and why in engineering school?

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

.” * I first wrote about the changes to the Venture Capital ecosystem 10 years ago and this still serves as a good primer of how we arrived at 2011, a decade on from the Web 1.0 The market today would barely be recognizable by a time traveler from 2011. dot-com bonanza. Ten years on much has changed.

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XPRIZE Foundation Rolls Out New, $1M Moonshot Award

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based XPRIZE , the nonprofit which manages and operates competitions intended to spur significant advances in technology, says it has rolled out a new, $1 million award, which it calls the Moonshot Award. SpaceIL originally began development of its lunar lander as part of the Google Lunar XPRIZE effort. READ MORE>>.

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Sell at the top? Avoid the race to zero!

Berkonomics

Competitors, seeing a successful development of a niche, flock into the competitive void with products or services built with a fresh view of the current environment. LivingSocial took in $583 million in capital in 2010 and 2011 with little left in time to show for the investment and tremendous dilution to the founders.

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