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Local Clean Energy Business Plan Contest Awards $160,000

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A local, clean energy business plan competition started by the California Insitute of Technology (Caltech), the University of Southern California (USC), and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has awarded $160,000 in prizes in its latest competition. READ MORE>>.

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How TenOneTen Ventures Is Investing In LA's Technology Future

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Despite a growing technology industry here in Southern California, local investors and entrepreneurs tell us there''s still a shortage of local, venture capital. Healthcare is a really obvious vertical, where there is data inefficiency and a tremendous amount of opportunity, but there''s also education, human capital and talent.

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Interview with Richard Koffler and John Morris, The Tech CEO Network

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It's trying to determine if there is a viable way to go to market, and also deal with competitive issues. Ultimately, once those issues are validated, it's how to go about building the product, recruiting talent, and enough capital to make it into a business. At USC, there's probably five or six different touchpoints. READ MORE>>.

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Catch #Mindshare50 Talks Live on TechZulu

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Neuroscientist at Caltech, UCLA’s Department of Neurosurgery, and NYUMoran is interested in attention, emotions regulations, and dreams. He can also spin fire while balancing on a circus ball and whistlin – but not just any whistling, eric finished in the top 10 at the world’s whistling competition in Louisburg, North Carolina.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. He was a life-long entrepreneur and the first business he created out of college (actually, he founded it while he was at Caltech) was a company that manufactured high quality audio speakers. He sold so many that after Caltech he decided to open a retail store.