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Pepperdine Most Fundable Companies Showcase 2020.

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Thursday, October 15, 2020 -- Pepperdine Most Fundable Companies Showcase 2020. Now in its third year, the Most Fundable Companies competition has grown to over 4,500 companies, and for the first time attracted startups from all 50 U.S.

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Insights: VCs Planting the Seeds for a Cleantech Bumper Crop in L.A.

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John Paglia , an associate professor of finance and senior researcher of the Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project. Los Angeles boasts 543,835 privately held companies -- among the largest concentrations of small businesses in the world, according to the National Association of Women Business Owners. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Rich Branning, Sweep

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Rich Branning is the CEO and co-founder of Sweep (www.sweepcrew.com), a company that handles logistics, maintenance, and other heavy lifting required for on-demand scooter companies like Bird, Lime, and others. I'm originally from Palo Alto, but I graduated from Pepperdine in 2012. That has been a vastly neglected talking point.

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Watch an Ad, Help a Nonprofit Out

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These alternative platforms have, in turn, grabbed the attention of entrepreneurs who recognize the market vertical isn’t shrinking anytime soon. Not only that, they’ve started launching their own companies and platforms that tout innovative ways to help millenials get in on the action. Most recently, I came across Givvr.

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Interview: Jason Nazar of Docstoc

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." 6) You are the only person I have ever met who was Class President of both their undergraduate (UC Santa Barbara) and their graduate (Pepperdine) schools. It’s a lot of the same skills as running a company. " 5) At Pepperdine you earned a joint MBA/JD degree. "Yes (laughs)! It was an amazing experience.

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

I recently got together with Aaron Shechet and an early stage startup to discuss the direction the company might want to take. I then went to Pepperdine University School of Law and graduated in 2006 with a Certificate from the Geoffrey H. We also represent a few larger companies with international issues.

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How Cloudvirga Wants To Disrupt The Slow, Antiquated Mortgage Industry

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We spoke with Kyle Kamrooz , co-founder and COO of the company, about what the startup is doing. I started young, buildilng on my father's lending company. I have built large fulfillment companies and lenders. He's my mentor, and I've known him since I was nineteen years old, when he was an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine.

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