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The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns

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The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns. Next → Later today, the Startup UCLA accelerator will have its inaugural demo day. UCLA doesn’t aim to make a financial return. Being in its inaugural class, Startup UCLA is still sorting through its own identity and business model issues.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

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That includes Notre Dame, Oregon, UCLA, and others. For example, we're the official mobile app of UCLA, even though behind the scenes is actually Hopscotch. Why are these colleges using you, rather than investing in their own custom applications? Depending on who you are, and where you are, we can deliver different advertising.

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Online and Mobile Video

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The UCLA Anderson School of Management and the German American Business Association (GABA), invite you to an exciting panel discussion with top digital media executives and venture capitalists followed by a reception at the UCLA Faculty Center. Tuesday, June 30, 2009 -- Online and Mobile Video. See [link].

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Interview with Jonathan Zweig, AppOnboard

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Usually, it's someone with just curiosity about the app, and the advertisers will pay several dollars for that download, only to have the user just delete the app, without having ever played it or even gotten through a tutorial. I had a programming job at UCLA at the time, working at UCLA Radiology. I was a sponge.

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Unbucket: Planning Your Life With Friends, with Elliot Darvick

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Brian has a deep background in programming and also a law degree from UCLA. For all of the online advertising out there, there are few places you can advertise against a stated interest, which we think is the most valuable signal of all. Instead, what we'll be doing is building an advertising marketplace on stated intention.

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Thanks to our sponsors!

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Middle Market Investment Banking. Advertisers. Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. Costello and Sons Insurance Brokers (www.costelloandsons.com). Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Deloitte (www.deloitte.com/us/technology). Gemini Partners (www.geminipartners.net). Startups Made Simple.

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Interview with Wes Nichols, MarketShare

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We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Advertisers are known for their creative focus, not focus on analytics.