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SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Hsieh--who holds the majority shares in Temple City-based Fulgent--is being honored by USC for the 10th anniversary of his gift to USC in the next few weeks. Hsieh--who holds the majority shares in Temple City-based Fulgent--is being honored by USC for the 10th anniversary of his gift to USC in the next few weeks.

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socalTECH

MARCH 6, 2012

El Segundo-based Fetch Technologies , the developer of data aggregation and analysis software which was a spinout of USC's Information Sciences Institute, has been sold to New Jersey-based Connotate. According to Connotate, former Fetch CEO Ryan Mullholland becomes President of the firm with the acquisition.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Hsieh gave $35M to the University of Southern California in 2006, which renamed its Electrical Engineering Department as the USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering. Hsieh is a serial entrepreneur and billionaire, who founded and sold Cogent Systems to 3M. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy and Darren, our other co-founder who's not here right now, actually graduated from USC. We were really focused on customer acquisition. What were you doing before? Ryan Disraeli: I was actually in school at the time. What were you majoring in? Ryan Disraeli: I was studying business with an emphasis on entrepreneurship.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

The universities are now more focused on the innovation economy, with schools like USC, UCLA, Caltech, the Claremont Colleges all bringing good people to LA. They're acquisitive, have cashed up, and lots of them are now looking at repatriating money to the US. They are very acquisitive. That will cause a real boom in M&A.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Amazon's acquisition of Whole Foods this year is just another very visible step in their expansion. Z is known for curating and hosting the first ever TEDx (TEDxUSC) in 2009 and founding two innovation centers at MIT and USC. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Mike Tringe earned his BA in History and Science from Harvard, and his MFA in Film Production from USC. He’s worked as an English and Film teacher at the American School of Tangier, and has also assistant taught film production at USC. Sara Akhteh received her BA in Film Theory from UCSC and her MFA from USC in Production.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2010

Having followed the firm since its early days as a spinout of USC, we thought we'd talk with CEO Mark Tapling to get the back story behind the acquisition, and where the firm is going form here. What's the story behind the acquisition? Tags: translation language acquisition merger interview weaver tapling mark.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Recently, USC's film school started a comedic content major. Daniel Altman: For us, it's about user acquisition, and working on the technology. We've got a professor at UC Boulder, a neuroscientist at Dartmouth, and Robert Mankoff, the cartoon editor at the New York, who had been developing his own sophisticated tools behind cartoons.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions. Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom. He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA. and negotiated the company’s successful acquisition by Logitech, Inc.,

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Our continuing relationship with USC is precious in that regard. We've been able to harvest lots of scientific advances from Kevin Knight (editor's note: founder and Chief Scientist, and a researcher at USC's Information Sciences Institute), which we've been able to include in our business.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. What Do We See From the Road Ahead? The infrastructure phase of the Internet is over.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

We had our fourth anniversary in May, and we passed out checks from the Helixis acquisition to our LPs, which was a pleasant delight. We're starting to see some very innovative product ideas out of places like Caltech, USC, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and the like. Interesting. So what's going on with the fund nowadays? Is there a market?

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

We haven’t had any capital to really test customer acquisition strategies. ML: I do mentor and advise a lot of young entrepreneurs, especially from USC since I went to that school. We are actually hitting numbers that we promised to hit. We are totally bootstrapped, so I don’t have a lot of marketing dollars to spend.

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SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

A SoCal native and graduate of both UCLA and USC, Richard Rosenblatt led the growth of MySpace from an unknown to a household name. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media.

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