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Government Funding for Your Business

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, June 28, 2011 -- Government Funding for Your Business. Learn how to gain a competitive edge in winning Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding through our workshop series. See [link] (more)

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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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X Prize Foundation Puts Up $1.4M Prize For Oil Cleanup Invention

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The X PRIZE Foundation has detailed the plans for a new competition to develop technology to clean up crude oil, on the heels of the environmental disaster caused by BP's oil spill in the Gulf. The award is being personally funded by Wendy Schmidt, the president of The Schmidt Family Foundation. READ MORE>>.

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Win an SBIR/STTR Award

SoCal Tech Calendar

Monday, June 27, 2011 -- Win an SBIR/STTR Award. Learn how to gain a competitive edge in winning Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding through our workshop series.

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Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal

Both Sides of the Table

I have conversations with entrepreneurs and other VCs on a daily basis about fund raising, the prices of deals, how much companies should raise, etc. For example: If you were to invest $41 million into a company (and one could assume that you owned between 33-50%) then the company is worth $82-123 million at funding.

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Everything You Need to Know About Hyperloop

Tech.Co

In January 2017, HTT announced that the company was opening a research facility in Tououse, France to work on prototyping. million in Series A financing from Sherpa Capital along with three other funds. The SpaceX competition succeeded in opening up the Hyperloop market to new and innovative companies. Hardt Global Mobility.

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After “Hubris” and Its HCV Collapse, Can Vertex Avoid Same Mistakes?

Xconomy

Five years ago, in November 2011, a company from Princeton, NJ, called Pharmasset shared news that would have an impact on millions of people around the world with hepatitis C. In three years, Vertex went from having a billion-dollar hepatitis C business to zero—abandoning the research completely. Yet it wasn’t a fatal blow.

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