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Local Universities Get $360K From DOE For Cleantech Entrepreneurship

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According to Pasadena-based green marketplace firm OnGreen , the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), UC Los Angeles (UCLA), and University of Southern California (USC) scored a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help foster student entrepreneurs via a business plan competition run by the group called First Look West.

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

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What is the idea behind the Tech CEO Network? The Tech CEO Network is there to fill the gap. It's trying to determine if there is a viable way to go to market, and also deal with competitive issues. That's why we're hoping that bringing domain expertise and an industry network will help facilitate that process.

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Interview with Mike Napoli, Tech Coast Angels

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Investors are very focused on diligence, on business models that make sense, and those companies that have a definite competitive advantage and defensibility to what they're doing. We're always happy to talk to people, and all of our networks have open networking events in a variety of locations.

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How TenOneTen Ventures Is Investing In LA's Technology Future

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Both Waxman and Elbaz are serial entrepreneurs, with many successes under their belt (Elbaz with Applied Semantics, which he sold to Google, Waxman with such companies as Firefly Networks, SpotRunner, and PeoplePC). There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. We have a lot of world class universities here.

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

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He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S. Though competitors have sprung up, Tanz welcomes the competition to help define the market. Creating very natural and appealing social engagement opportunity, as well as video without the television network costs. Engagement rate is at 0.5%