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Local Universities Get $360K From DOE For Cleantech Entrepreneurship

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According to Pasadena-based green marketplace firm OnGreen , the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), UC Los Angeles (UCLA), and University of Southern California (USC) scored a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help foster student entrepreneurs via a business plan competition run by the group called First Look West.

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New Group Looks To Bridge Gap Between Research, Companies

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The new group, The Tech CEO Network , said it is looking to help bridge between the technology present at local schools like Caltech, UCLA, USC, UC Irvine, and other universities, and actual, viable companies. Tags: startups university research mentoring network tech.

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

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What is the idea behind the Tech CEO Network? The Tech CEO Network is there to fill the gap. That's why we're hoping that bringing domain expertise and an industry network will help facilitate that process. To better understand what they're trying to do, we spoke with both Richard and John about the group.

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Accelerator Crazy In Southern California

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The group is a member of the TechStars Network, and boasts a who's who of successful local CEOs and investors. Upstart LA , started by Dan Dato and Bruce Brown, is hoping to take the TechStars and Y-Combinator model to Los Angeles, and has been in the process of lining up mentors and investors to back its incubation efforts.

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Interview with Dave Eastman, Viterbi Startup Garage

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

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Both graduates of one of the most premier science institutions in the United States: Caltech. I grew up a computer programmer, a builder of computer networks and fascinated with infrastructure so in many ways I felt like I existed at the inception of many of these great technologies. What Do We See From the Road Ahead?

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How TenOneTen Ventures Is Investing In LA's Technology Future

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Both Waxman and Elbaz are serial entrepreneurs, with many successes under their belt (Elbaz with Applied Semantics, which he sold to Google, Waxman with such companies as Firefly Networks, SpotRunner, and PeoplePC). There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. We have a lot of world class universities here.

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