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Beauty Noted, Founded By USC Student, Gets $2.2M In Funding

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Beauty Noted , an online beauty and cosmetics social discovery site founded by USC student Sarah Kortschak, said Tuesday that it has raised $2.2M The startup--which is based in San Francisco--said the funding came from Kortschak Investments, as well as IDG Ventures and Crosslink capital. in a funding round. READ MORE>>.

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Dreaming of Mars, the startup Relativity Space gets its first launch site on Earth

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The two had met in college at USC in their jet propulsion lab. billion since its founding and initial capitalization by Elon Musk); and United Launch Alliance, the joint venture between the defense contracting giants Lockheed Martin Space Systems and Boeing Defense. space and missile defense program. space and missile defense program.

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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

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For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. For people who haven't heard of ExtraBux, what is the site all about? Noah, thanks for the interview.

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ScoreBig.com Gets $10M Investment

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The site''s current offers in Los Angeles include Dodgers, Angels, LA Kings, USC Trojans, and other discounted sports tickets, in addition to concerts and theater events. ScoreBig.com''s other investors include Bain Capital Ventures and U.S. Kanner is a veteran of the sports market. Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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CircuitHub, With Roots At UCLA, Launches Hub For Hardware Designers

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The firm--co-founded and headed by UCLA Visiting Scholar Jon Friedman--has created an online site which lets hardware designers tap into the data sheets, symbols, components, and footprints of electronic components, for free, either by downloading or by connecting a Dropbox account.

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Streamlining The Sports Recruiting Process with FieldLevel

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We''re not the company which tells athletes to jump on our site, and we''ll spam you to schools and find you a place. When we arrived at USC, we began to talk about how we struggled during the recruiting process. Form there, we got interest from incubators, angel investors, and venture capital.

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How NinjaThat Taps The Power Of Students For Business Tasks, with Atif Siddiqi

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As a designer, I can post a mission, and you can check out my portfolio of work, which is then completed and hosted on the site. You provide payment when the mission is complete, and the payment is handled through the site. I went to USC, and was doing grad school and my MBA when I met Atish.

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