socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. Tom Grasty: Essentially, we started off as a graduate school project at USC. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition.

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Journal USC News Startup 187

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

At the Technovation Challenge LA Pitch Night hosted by Iridescent , we saw six teams of high school girls from various Los Angeles City Schools pitch a number of mobile app ideas to a panel of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. Seek out similar academic competitions and programs. Don’t take no for an answer. Find a hero.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review USC 82

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 21, 2014

Sifting through the crowd, it was easy to see sweatshirts with Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, USC and many other universities. On the upper lever in the bleachers, sponsors held booths to tell attendees about their products and help students with their programs. “We Walking into Pauley Pavilion, was its own experience.

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UCLA Los Angeles Snapchat USC 108

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2012

We met at USC, and we had traveled a lot with study abroad programs. Aigerim Duiseneyeva: We met with Idealab through a USC Marshall competition. We were still very early stage--an idea on a napkin--and for the past year, we've been building out our product. What's the story on how the company came about? READ MORE>>.

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Startup Idealab USC Ideas 199

socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

That technology is coming out of USC's biomedical department, which is part of its School of Engineering. It's trying to determine if there is a viable way to go to market, and also deal with competitive issues. At USC, there's probably five or six different touchpoints. Last week, John and I met with Dina Lozofsky, now at U.C.

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Networking Research Startup USC 215

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

While we have become more productive as a society, with the advent of computers aiding our work, physical inactivity has become a high risk factor in contributing to chronic illnesses. How is Movn different than your competition? HV: Our main competitive advantage is the idea of personalization.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

There's more competition, but there's a lot more available to you as a developer. Plus, exposure through USC led me to the Tech Coast Angels. Tags: entrepreneur startup kids children video videogame game content world virtual myminipeeps media masher gunther sherry. Are the tools really there now for you to be able to do that?

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Media Tech Coast Angels Social Network Content 150

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We try to hire people who we believe will be upfront and respectful of entrepreneurs and know that it’s far easier to judge ones decisions on the outside than it actually is to have to make the tough decisions inside of a startup every day. He took a star receiver from USC in the college draft. Conviction. So he picked up Murray.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

I then got my MBA at University of Chicago so I secretly pull for local entrepreneurs as long as they don’t make me visit in the Winter any more. For example, Lookout is a mobile security company that was founded by three talented graduates of USC. No – I’m not worried about the competition.

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Company Companies Startup Snapchat 369

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 313

socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2014

Last month, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti created a new program, aimed at growing, assisting and sustaining entrepreneurs in Los Angeles. The new "Entrepreneur-in-Residence" program has appointed its first, two, EIRs--Krisztina "Z" Holly and Amir Tehrani.--both Also, the U.S. That''s very much part of our DNA here in Los Angeles.

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Los Angeles Startup USC Angel 216