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Two Local Tech, Investment Executives Named In College Fraud Investigation

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Two people associated with Southern California's high tech investment and startup industry have been named as part of the far reaching investigation into a college admissions scandal , which named Hollywood actresses, CEOs, coaches at USC, UCLA, and UCSD, as well as many others. According to a complaint filed by the U.S.

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Blackstone Expands Student Entrepreneurship Program To SoCal

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grant, to be given to a partnership including UCLA, UC Irvine, USC, and the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC), to connect university students with a network of venture coaches. blackstone launchpad student entrepreneurship program ucla southern california entrepreneur startup business' READ MORE>>.

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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. UCLA Anderson really seems to be a hotbed of entrepreneurs nowadays - did you know going into the MBA program you'd be starting your own company?

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Blisters and Basketball – How to Boost Excellent Execution in Your Organization

Frank Addante

I admire John Wooden, the legendary UCLA basketball coach. He spent the first day of practice each year teaching his team how to put its socks on properly. Wooden’s reasoning? If you can avoid blisters, you’ll focus more, play better, and boost your on-court performance. Wooden’s emphasis on excellent execution resonates for me.

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Interview with Jonathan Zweig, AppOnboard

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I had a programming job at UCLA at the time, working at UCLA Radiology. Bill talks about growing up at the Naval Academy with his father, who was an assistant football coach there, and saying that was the most impactful experience on his coaching career. He sold it to ArtistDirect for $42.5M I was a sponge.

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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. You will be part of a powerful support network of mentors and other NEXT attendees from over 25 cities around the world.

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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. So, we're pretty accessible to talk to.