TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Founded by Steve Poizner last year to accelerate the growth of a startup entrepreneurial ecosystem in Southern California, The Alliance is building a network of investors, entrepreneurs and universities to provide ballast in the south to the dominance of the Northern California tech industry.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

There's a tightness which is squeezing the lifeblood from the entrepreneurs, even as it remains an amazing place. We have every major research university in Southern California in the Alliance now, and that was extremely hard to do. There's not much of a track record of universities and research institutions working together.

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Southern California Venture Capital Startup Entrepreneur 170

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, July 14, at The California Institute of Technology (CalTech). Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. The Caltech Entrepreneurship Club is the hub for innovators in the Caltech community who want to learn how to make their idea a reality. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m.

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CalTech Technical Review Company Companies 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 15, 2011

The 10th Annual Techweek will be hosted once again at the award-winning Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County - California's largest high tech business incubator located in Altadena (near Caltech, JPL and other major research institutions). See [link] (more)

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Los Angeles Altadena Technology Angel 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The 10th Annual Techweek will be hosted once again at the award-winning Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County - California's largest high tech business incubator located in Altadena (near Caltech, JPL and other major research institutions). See [link] (more)

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Los Angeles Altadena Angel Technology 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The 10th Annual Techweek will be hosted once again at the award-winning Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County - California's largest high tech business incubator located in Altadena (near Caltech, JPL and other major research institutions). See [link] (more)

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Los Angeles Altadena Technology Angel 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. This data is being assembled into massive data sets and used by scientists, researchers, companies and the government to develop new products, predict epidemics, understand consumer behavior and formulate public policies. Entrepreneurs are pursuing these ?Big s raining data. Actually, it?s

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Enterprise Forum Miramar CalTech IBM 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 14, 2011

The 10th Annual Techweek will be hosted once again at the award-winning Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County - California's largest high tech business incubator located in Altadena (near Caltech, JPL and other major research institutions). See [link] (more)

Los Angeles 100

Los Angeles Altadena Angel Technology 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 13, 2011

The 10th Annual Techweek will be hosted once again at the award-winning Business Technology Center of Los Angeles County - California's largest high tech business incubator located in Altadena (near Caltech, JPL and other major research institutions). See [link] (more)

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Los Angeles Altadena Angel Technology 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 6, 2010

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Please join the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum for their annual software program this year focusing on Cloud Computing. Please join the Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum for their annual software program this year focusing on Cloud Computing. See [link] (more).

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Startup Enterprise Forum Cloud Computing CalTech 100

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

One of those high profile neighborhoods here is Pasadena, home of Idealab, Caltech, OpenX, and many other high tech companies and institutions. Because of that, I formally reached out to Caltech, Idealab, the Art Center College of Design, and all the CEOs I knew running tech companies out here. We were at ground zero.

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Pasadena CalTech Santa Monica Technical Review 242

SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 4, 2012

Entrepreneurs identify problems and find ways to solve them. Saturday, March 10, 2012 -- Social Entrepreneurship: Venturing from the Bottom Up. In a typical business, the idea is to do that and make some money. What happens, though, when the problems are big and have social aspects that dont have an obvious revenue source?

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CalTech Research Design Organization 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

DECEMBER 2, 2009

Getting research out of the university lab and into a growing business poses a unique set of challenges - especially when the scientist is assumed to be the entrepreneur. Not only are the founders deeply invested in the research, but their chosen profession is academia rather than the business world. LAVA Breakfast Meeting.

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Pepperdine LAVA Mission Ventures CalTech 100

Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 7, 2011

Based on my own experience and feedback from friends, every investor is approached by at least ten entrepreneurs with a “hot idea” for a new business, for every one who has a real “plan” for a new business. In fact, you can find websites full of ideas, like these “ Free Innovative Ideas ,” by serial entrepreneur Kim E.

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Ideas Entrepreneur Summary Startup 104

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Saturday, December 6, 2008 -- "Building a Virtually Integrated Life Sciences Company" Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. The traditional business model dominating the pharmaceutical industry for over 100 years is rapidly eroding under new drivers for innovation and increasing financial pressures.

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Enterprise Forum Company Companies CalTech 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

We've initially focused on university-based research groups, and as we've gotten up and running, we've found that there's no need to limit it to just universities. If an existing company is not interested in licensing, and a researcher is not an entrepreneurial spirit, those projects go no where. Where is this talent coming from?

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Networking Research Startup USC 215

SoCal Tech Calendar

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

Saturday, February 12, 2011 -- Synthetic Biology Today and Tomorrow: The Way Entrepreneurs and Visionaries Want the World to Be. Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. The program will highlight how the leading edge of research will turn into entrepreneurial opportunities that will transform medicine. See [link] (more)

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Enterprise Forum CalTech Research Entrepreneur 100

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 20, 2011

Howard Morgan earned a PhD in Operations Research/Computer Science in 1968. He then went on to teach Computer Science at Cornell, Caltech, and University of Pennsylvania. Through his research he helped bring ARPANET to Philadelphia in 1973. Office Hours – Two or three partners post a sign-up sheet to meet with entrepreneurs.

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Capital Venture Capital Startup Technical Review 284

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

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. However, we have broad groups of entrepreneurs and types of technology, which makes it challenging to develop programming around that fits everyone.

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Pasadena Orange County Idealab CalTech 100

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

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. which have lots of interest, government dollars, and smart minds researching products around them. Nice chatting with you today!

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Startup Southern California Ideas Research 185

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

Despite a growing technology industry here in Southern California, local investors and entrepreneurs tell us there''s still a shortage of local, venture capital. There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. There''s a lot of great research and people coming out of those institutions, and creating new companies here.

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Invest Technology Startup Venture Capital 159

Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 3, 2013

Based on my own experience and feedback from friends, every investor is approached by at least ten entrepreneurs with a “hot idea” for a new business, for every one who has a real “plan” for a new business. In fact, you can find websites full of ideas, like these “ Free Innovative Ideas ,” by serial entrepreneur Kim E. Marty Zwilling.

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Ideas Startup Summary CalTech 106

socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

The NSF determined eight to ten years ago that the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants they were funding to academic teams, to commercialize technology, they were losing, because not many academics had the background to understand how to go out and source customers, and did not know how to run a startup.

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Marina Del Rey Startup USC Incubator 150

Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 2, 2012

Based on my own experience and feedback from friends, every investor is approached by at least ten entrepreneurs with a “hot idea” for a new business, for every one who has a real “plan” for a new business. In fact, you can find websites full of ideas, like these “ Free Innovative Ideas ,” by serial entrepreneur Kim E.

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Ideas Summary Startup CalTech 97

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

Those will be supplied to big companies, to research and development labs, and university folks, to get them working with our technology, which we think will change the landscape. How did a startup like yours go from that research to a product without millions and millions invested in semiconductor infrastructure?

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Startup Southern California UCLA Incubator 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

Mike Swords – Executive Director of Strategic Research Initiatives and Global Partnerships, UCLA. As a Resident Entrepreneur at UCLA’s Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer, she spends her time on working on the investment side of new, emerging technologies. Let’s Talk Money. Cleantech is About Connecting.

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UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 14, 2009

In most cases if you can’t get a prototype done you’re probably not an entrepreneur. Go research it. Professional angels / former entrepreneurs / seed funds – In Silicon Valley there are people like Ron Conway, Jeff Clavier, Mike Maples and many more. But for most businesses it is. That’s OK.

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Angel Funding Venture Capital Startup 291

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 10, 2012

Here are just a few: Nolan Bushnell , a seasoned entrepreneur who founded both Atari, Inc. Neuroscientist at Caltech, UCLA’s Department of Neurosurgery, and NYUMoran is interested in attention, emotions regulations, and dreams. for ourselves, our culture, and our planet. and the Chuck E Cheese’s Pizza-Time Theater chain. 12pm: BODY.

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Technical Advisors Design Education Study 89

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

Entrepreneur. Entrepreneurs. MYTH 4: Research institutions are stronger in NorCal. Arguably the greatest research and development nexus in the United States rests in the area spanning San Diego to Los Angeles. Cloud storage. Enterprise. Acquisition. Venture capital. Developers. Infographics. Management. Electric cars.

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Southern California PHP Technical Review Orange County 57