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Six companies started by students at the University of Southern California's Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at USC Marshall have been awarded a total of $50,000 in seed funding, after competing in the center's New Venture Seed Competition held this week. providing online tutoring.
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CleanWeb Hackathons are weekend programming competitions taking place in major cities around the globe. LA's 2012 CleanWeb Hackathon will be hosted at the USC Campus Center Forum Nov. The CleanWeb Hackathon will be coming to Los Angeles for the first time starting Friday Nov. See [link] (more)
CleanWeb Hackathons are weekend programming competitions taking place in major cities around the globe. LA's 2012 CleanWeb Hackathon will be hosted at the USC Campus Center Forum Nov. The CleanWeb Hackathon will be coming to Los Angeles for the first time starting Friday Nov. See [link] (more)
There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes. So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. You don't need a CD, or hardware, it's completely web based. We actually wrote the business plan in a business plan class at USC.
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We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. It’s hard to get people to take a risk at a startup or for a reasonable salary with all this competition. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so.
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