socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

To solve that issue, Mike, as well as a number of other entrepreneurs here in Southern California, is in the midst of organizing Students4Startups (www.students4startups.com), a group which hopes to connect graduating students in the area to local startup companies. It's not for everybody, of course.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

And of course, we’d like to thank our amazing panels of speakers for pouring their knowledge into the mental chalices of our present and virtual attendees. As a Resident Entrepreneur at UCLA’s Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer, she spends her time on working on the investment side of new, emerging technologies.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

But of course all of these things are intertwined. 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. Know what you believe is important.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

The best person I know to talk about the growing entrepreneurship culture on campuses is Alex Zhang, a student at USC and the Managing Director of the student-run incubator LavaLab. LavaLab is USC’s first product design incubator program run for students by students. Student entrepreneurs are the future.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2015

I grew up in Thousand Oaks, went to USC, and we met each other way back in the 90's. We had courses together in college, and got to know each other on a deeper intellectual level, before we got to know each other socially. Thanks for the time today, it's great to get a chance to talk with you about your company. So, what is PeerStreet?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 15, 2014

Of course this can be done and of course I am a big proponent of the rise of startup centers across the country as the Internet has moved from the “infrastructure phase” to the “application phase” dominated by the three C’s: content, communications and commerce. Chicago has made strides.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Participating in this event also included world recognized security expert and Co-founder of Fonality , Samy Kamkar , Danny Schreiber (Managing Editor of Silicon Prairie News) and Rob Jadon (serial-entrepreneur and angel investor). If Avesta sees someone drinking Coloft coffee (organic of course), he quickly asks if they’ve sold anything.

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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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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

Then, we found the most amazing data scientist, who was initially an advisor, who was the founder of the AI Journal, and was at NASA, and taught at Stanford and USC. I understand that at Stanford, one of the most popular courses is Designing Your Life. The two guys who teach this course have written a book, which is very interesting.

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