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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

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Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. There were lots of people very intent on the execution of the product, really looking into the details of design and flow. It has been really amazing.

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StartupWeekend Next Teaches Teams How to Level Up

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SWNext Los Angeles has teamed up with Cross Campus to host the 5-week class that will be led by the founder and CEO of QuantSoft, Wilton Risenhoover, who also teaches entrepreneurship at UCLA Extension. This class is designed to help entrepreneurs understand where they are going wrong.”. The Flipped Classroom Approach.

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Incubating LA's Biotech Future, With Richard Koffler, Greenwings Biomedical

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It consisted of what today would be called an accelerator, which involves sprinkling a few dollars and coaching on other people. Three years ago, I started the first of three companies in a portfolio out of the UCLA health system, VAL9000. It was a failure. I think it''s very difficult to find success on that model.

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

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Myself, I am now working with a medical ultrasound technology firm, working directly with the researcher and a design firm. When you think about it, working with the universities, it's not just talking with UCLA; it's talking with their engineering school, their medical school, their office of intellectual property.

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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

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ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Companies represented include: Disney, Warner Bros.,