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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. There is a mentor program that accompanies the class.

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Interview with Mike Napoli, Tech Coast Angels

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For example, our LA network is having the Fast Pitch on the 24th at UCLA. We're beginning to engage them more in mentoring and coaching, and we've been known to make very, very early stage seed investments to help companies finish up their plans or prototypes, and inch them along a little more.

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

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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. Where is this talent coming from? We've assigned each member of the group to monitor and maintain connectivity with the various constituents.