SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum. Gordon Binder, Venture Capital investor, former Chairman and CEO of Amgen, and Trustee Emeritus of both Caltech and MIT, leads the November Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum program, "Entrepreneurs in a Biotech Age." Saturday, November 12, 2016 -- Entrepreneurs in a Biotech Moment.

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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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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

socalTECH

MAY 29, 2013

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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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 30, 2012

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, February 2, at Caltech. The evening will consist of a series of live stage demonstrations guaranteed to impress and inspire new ideas among all in attendance. Where: Baxter Hall | CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. Take the next left on Holliston Avenue, into Caltech campus.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 8, 2011

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, July 14, at The California Institute of Technology (CalTech). The evening will consist of a series of live stage demonstrations guaranteed to impress and inspire new ideas among all in attendance. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2012

Hawaiian firm eHale also was given a promising idea award for integrating solar cells into indoor and outdoor, home and office furniture. The effort is part of a larger national effort by the Department of Energy (DOE) to spur businesses in clean technologies from university labs.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 14, 2012

Wednesday, June 20, 2012 -- Innovation Soiree: Caltech/MIT EF's Spring Social. Spring at Caltech signals graduation and careers being launched. And likewise the Institute's beautifully verdant campus reminds us of Caltech's unmatched output of scientific discovery and technology venture creation. See [link] (more)

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socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

As much as the idea of "Silicon Beach" wants to represent the whole of the local technology industry in Los Angeles, there are -- as one would expect in such a large metropolitan area -- many different neighborhoods and communities spread across the region, all with their own individual identities, companies, and technology focuses.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

Tuesday, September 27, 2011 -- Innovation Soiree: Caltech/MIT EF's Fall Kickoff Social. Caltech in September signals innovation in high gear as summer blends into a new academic year: beautiful minds abuzz innovating and discovering throughout a strikingly beautiful campus. Bring your business cards and your entrepreneurial spirit.

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Enterprise Forum CalTech Southern California Ideas 100

TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 19, 2018

“After working in AR on work process automation and making that information useful to humans, I became excited about the idea of designing robots that could leverage these new technologies to actually work alongside humans and the positive impact that could have on the world,” Barnehama wrote in an email. .

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 5, 2010

I love the energy of sharing ideas in a coherent flow on topics for which I’m passionate. I plan to cover the early mistakes startups make, how to maximize value for your venture, how to come up with the right idea, how to raise your initial capital, etc. with high calibre technology people will get my time.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 10, 2011

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Our program will explore how entrepreneurs can interact with utilities, government and the private sector to promote innovative ideas to cut traffic congestion, emissions and transportation. Saturday, April 16, 2011 -- Greening Your Ride: Entrepreneurial Opportunities in the Transportation Sector.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 4, 2012

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

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socalTECH

AUGUST 4, 2010

It turns out that the firm--a spinout of Caltech--came out of the exact same lab as Helixis, the molecular diagnostics firm acquired for a healthy $105M by Illumina last week. Who ever got the idea to apply semiconductor processing to diamonds, and where did this all start? It came out of a lab at Caltech, operated by Axel Scherer.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 10, 2011

Caltech/MIT enterprise Forum. Our program will explore how entrepreneurs can interact with utilities, government and the private sector to promote innovative ideas to cut traffic congestion, emissions and transportation. Saturday, April 16, 2011 -- Greening Your Ride: Entrepreneurial Opportunities in the Transportation Sector.

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Enterprise Forum CalTech Entrepreneur Ideas 100

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

That's the idea behind the technology being developed by Pasadena-based ObEN (www.oben.me), which is led by co-founde rand CEO Nikhil Jain. How did you come up with the idea for the company? We were exploring different ideas on what we wanted to do next. That's the entire premise of the idea. Where is the product now?

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socalTECH

MAY 24, 2011

Apparently, there is some magic ratio (depending on the circumstance) that any new idea will succeed. I recently had the pleasure of speaking to the Caltech Entrepreneur Club, and it got me thinking about what it means to be an entrepreneur. What does this have to do with being an entrepreneur? Quite a lot.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 3, 2010

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Venture capitalists are a traditional source of funding but there are other sources that can get your ideas and company moving forward. Saturday, January 9, 2010 -- Fun and Bucks: Harvesting Energy from Sun, Wind, Biomass and Water. California is leading the country in the cleantech revolution.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 20, 2011

TechZulu and The California Institute of Technology (Caltech) are pleased to announce Spotlight: LA Tech Winter. The Caltech Entrepreneurship Club is the hub for innovators in the Caltech community who want to learn how to make their idea a reality. Co-Host & Venue Sponsor. Community Sponsors.

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SoCal CTO

JUNE 10, 2008

The spark for this post is that I'm going to go to Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum on Saturday. So, I've got no idea who's going. I've presented there before and it's a good group. But there's no attendee list in site. I can't find them listed on any kind of social site.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2010

I recently gave talks at Caltech & Stanford. Your new idea won’t resonate with people the way “check-ins&# does because they’ve never heard of it by definition. In my view almost all ideas are derivative. Me: “OK, but what is your innovation?&#. That’s too late.

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

Those are faculty members who have a commercialization idea and want help with that. There are 9 innovation nodes in the US associated with I-Corp, and one of those nodes is out of the Viterbi School of Engineering, with UCLA and Caltech partners in that. What we do, is regional customer discovery for teams, typically academic.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

We were literally on the cusp of launching our prpoduct, and all of our work and money to date had gone into getting the innovative technology out of Caltech, exploring the marketplace, and making sure the product features matched with the demand of the market, which it clearly did. Is there a market? That's not necessarily time well spend.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The idea came about because of my work in both regions, and comparing and contrasting the two, and figuring out the game in Southern California. So, despite their rivalries and silos, people have come together, and we now have all 5 UC campuses in Southern California, plus Caltech, Harvey Mudd, USC, UC San Diego, and others involved.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

A healthy startup community needs to communicate and create new ideas together. Communication and growth will bring more capital and investors to start new businesses and ideas to create more opportunities, thus continuing the circle of startup life. LA brings forth a lot of talent from USC, UCLA, and Caltech.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2013

At SBF, a number of good ideas were floated to do just that. The idea with the most momentum was an effort to change the tax code to offer greater incentives for startups and venture funds to headquarter in L.A.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. Do you have any idea of how many investments you want to make a year? I think, if you have a no-so-great team, you can take a fantastic idea, and it won''t be successful. Do you have institutional LPs in your fund, or is this your personal capital?

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2012

Alex previously helped lead the Proto Group at Idealab, working to determine the feasibility of new business ideas. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. Take the next left on Holliston Avenue, into Caltech campus. Alex is a member of the New Venture Group at Idealab, headed by Allen Morgan. Event Details.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. He knew he was an entrepreneur because he couldn’t stop thinking about ideas. On the east coast, the response is typically all the reasons why your idea is not going to work. Positive feedback feeds the idea. We then spoke about startups.

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socalTECH

JULY 13, 2011

I was friends with two kids from Caltech, and I had brought an idea to them--which ended up totally different from what we ended up doing--and we decided to start a business together. About a week later, our CTO was in Japan, and calls me, saying he had a crazy idea for a music, app, and he'd tell me about it when he got back.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

What''s the idea behind the program? However, for students at USC, UCLA, and Caltech, that just doesn''t exist. We caught up with Steve earlier this week to learn more about the program. Steven Dietz: There is very little connection between the schools here and the technology community in the LA area.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

What is the idea behind the Tech CEO Network? John Morris: The whole idea is to help inventors, particularly but not limited to inventors at local universities, recruit qualified CEOs to their team. To better understand what they're trying to do, we spoke with both Richard and John about the group. Thanks for the time today.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

He is a unique human being with original thoughts & ideas and very limited concern for having to fit into other people’s narratives. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. I always enjoy spending time with Brad as the antidote to the eco chamber. downtown LA].

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). If you came here via a direct link you might want to check out the more detailed full version on my blog, which is here.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

What was Bill Gross’s heretical idea as portrayed to the tech elite? Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. You can hear many other amazing stories in this 1:1 interview ). What do Bill Gross and Gil Elbaz have in common that portends well for the future of LA Tech?

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Truecar 376

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2014

I would say that, if you look at Pasadena and Caltech, at JPL, at Idealab, at Innovate Pasadena, and the Design Center, and a couple of other things going, there is a lot of stuff happening in Pasadena, and sprouting out of Pasadena. They probably provide a lot of what we do, with the difference that they''ve got 24/7 management there.

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