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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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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. Rich Branning: We started Sweep in the Fall of 2017, when Travis first dropped scooters at the First Street Promenade.

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General Assembly,XYZ Tie On Registry Website Design Contest

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LA''s General Assembly and fellow Los Angeles company.XYZ are offering up a free domain name, website hosting, and General Assembly course credits to entrants to a new design contest, which challenges web designers to create a website based on the.xyz domain extension. The contest starts on January 9th, and runs through February 15th.

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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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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

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I recently got together with Aaron Shechet and an early stage startup to discuss the direction the company might want to take. I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. While at UC Santa Barbara, I started a café which served over 1100 dorm residents.

Startup 150
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Interview: Jason Nazar of Docstoc

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"We provide the best quality and widest selection of documents to help you start, grow and manage your small business and professional life. " 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. ." "Yes (laughs)!

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How Google's Old Offices Are Becoming A Tech Hub, with ROC's Walter Grieves

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However, it appears the spirit of innovation and technology didn't leave Google's old space: instead, that office has become Real Office Centers (realofficecenters.com), an office center which on a recent Friday looked to have become somewhat of a hub for Silicon Beach's startup and investors. It's up to the community.

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