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Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Transportation

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Saturday, November 16, 2019 -- Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum - Transportation. Emerging Opportunities in Urban Mobility and the Business Models It Will Enable. The ways that people and products move around cities worldwide are rapidly changing.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. He built & IPOd Demand Media. LA in fact has more entrepreneurs as a percentage of its population than anywhere else in the country.

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

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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. Too many entrepreneurs focus on dilution. They would launch quickly and test whether or not there is any demand.

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Catching Up With Mike Giardello, President of Innovate Pasadena

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We had a great launch and have seen great success, which has validated the fact that there is a lot of pent up demand for an organization here. There are always the hard core entrepreneurs, who will do anything they have to do get it done, and they'll work in the basement, they'll literally use their car as their office, wherever.

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Technology Startups go to the Movies

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Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum. Theatrical release competes with broadcast and cable television and streaming video on demand. Saturday, February 25, 2017 -- Technology Startups go to the Movies: Opportunities and Hurdles for Selling New Technologies into the Motion Picture Industry!

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Interview with Marc Averitt and Sharon Stevenson, Okapi Ventures

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In light of the recent success, we sat down with Marc Averitt and Sharon Stevenson to talk about the recent exit, where they are with their fund nowadays, and what advice they have for entrepreneurs. We're starting to see some very innovative product ideas out of places like Caltech, USC, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and the like.

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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At the Twiistup panel last week, there was a debate over whether big companies could be created here, which is ridiculous--Demand Media is the latest example there, we've got Cornerstone OnDemand coming out soon, and there is no question there are market leading, large revenue companies coming out of Southern California. That's part one.

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