socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

A new competition--part of the Startup America effort launched by the Obama Administration, and spearheaded locally by Caltech, USC, and UCLA--said today that it is looking to award $200,000 in prize money to university students with clean energy business ideas. The competition is being funded via $360,000 grant from the U.S.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2011

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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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

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. For example, our LA network is having the Fast Pitch on the 24th at UCLA. Before, when things were frothy, people were not as discerning as we are now.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

It's trying to determine if there is a viable way to go to market, and also deal with competitive issues. When you think about it, working with the universities, it's not just talking with UCLA; it's talking with their engineering school, their medical school, their office of intellectual property. Where is this talent coming from?

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. I''m pretty active in all of them as a mentor, and I''m at least a frequent visitors to all of the local accelerators. Although they might have more people in the field up in the Bay Area, there''s more competition for those people.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2013

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. Targeting images and adding video content is a nice premium alternative to the traditional buys that are extremely competitive.

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