Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2017

Leonard Kleinrock and a few of his UCLA computer lab students worked to send the first several text characters from UCLA to Stanford in 1969 over a direct line established for the test. And I’m sure they had no idea what they were fathering with that effort which eventually became ARPANET, and then of course, the Internet itself.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2017

Of course it makes sense once it’s brought to your attention and once you know about it, it’s hard to do nothing. So my wife sprung into action and contacted our nearest university, UCLA, to see whether they had a need for “care packages” for incoming students who had no parents or support system.

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Tech.Co

JUNE 17, 2015

More simply put, it’s an online portal to access university level arts and creative courses. There are also a three tiers of membership to suit specific student needs: Free: Enroll in any available course, watch video lectures, participate in forums. California Institute of the Arts. Otis College of Art and Design.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2021

You’ll find engineers out of MIT, Stanford, Harvard, UCSD, Caltech or execs out of UCLA, Spelman, NYU, etc. And of course the 7 or 8 deals would be different from the 4 or 5 you first saw and were ready to fight for. to start their next company. Venture is a numbers game. So is angel investing.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 7, 2015

LA''s General Assembly and fellow Los Angeles company.XYZ are offering up a free domain name, website hosting, and General Assembly course credits to entrants to a new design contest, which challenges web designers to create a website based on the.xyz domain extension. The contest starts on January 9th, and runs through February 15th.

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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. Sandra Itkoff – Entrepeneur in Residence, UCLA Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer. Ian Harris - VP of Partnerships, LA Cleantech Incubator.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

I never took a business course, never wrote a business plan, and never raised any outside capital. It was about the earliest days of our life together when we moved to Westwood so I could attend UCLA. I consider this trip the anniversary of the company’s starting up, and made the trip 11 years in a row.

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SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2009

Quality of Events Of course, the bigger issue with events is finding the ones where you will have a really good opportunity to network with interesting people.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Of course that’s not disputable. To some extent – of course they are. Of course most of you know SnapChat, Tinder & Whisper and many people immediately associate the success of Los Angeles under the SoLoMo banner (Social, Local, Mobile) and you wouldn’t be wrong. acquired Overture for $1.63 Structural.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

The creators of the renowned StartupWeekend — a place where random ad hoc teams work frantically for 54 hours to build a demo of a new business and then complete for fame and fortune — have picked up where StartupWeekend left off and have birthed a new course for entrepreneurs who need to level up called StartupWeekend Next.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. And of course a place of idyllic weather, culture and a lifestyle. ” And of course it’s not a true assessment. Of course if you’re already known you could put your name or location on your fund name. This is the list I would start with. downtown LA].

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We went to junior high school and UCLA together. We were seniors at UCLA, and both of us in very different areas. We''re now releasing a brand new look to our collection, with new stories and impacts and people, and of course amazing products. How did you get together with your cofounder?

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socalTECH

APRIL 13, 2021

Those companies tend to be around for longer than one year, because of course our faculty are not working on those things full time, they're continuing to teach classes. There are 9 innovation nodes in the US associated with I-Corp, and one of those nodes is out of the Viterbi School of Engineering, with UCLA and Caltech partners in that.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. The firm was bootstrapped several years ago, and is profitable, and its founders are both MBAs from UCLA Anderson, where they met. Ramit Varma: Jake (Neuberg), my business partner, met at UCLA's Anderson business school.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2012

Brian has a deep background in programming and also a law degree from UCLA. My mom really doesn't like presents, but I thought a great gift would be to plan out things we could do together over the course of a year. Elliot Darvick: Currently, Unbucket is myself and my co-founder, Brian Berman.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Some of the technical expertise resides here--we found some very brilliant acoustic engineers at UCLA who are doing a big chunk of the processing--and we in fact think we've done something sufficiently interesting that we have some patents in provisional state, and we hope to lock that down in the next year or two.

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Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

The integration of massively open online courses (MOOCs) makes strategic sense, which is likely why LinkedIn acquired Lynda for $1.5 The average cost per webinar ranges from $39-59 with longer online courses (2-8 weeks) landing somewhere between $99-799. making connections, looking for jobs, staying up on news, etc.)

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2013

It will be held on the beach of course, at the Annenberg Beach House. Robert Jadon, Director of Startup UCLA. A full day of exploring career opportunities, discovering new products and interacting with the most influential folks in the L.A technology sector. What makes it fun? Speakers will include: Avesta Rasouli, Founder of Coloft.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

Thibault Mathieu: Morgan and I were both in film school at UCLA. We were initially covering events like sports and arts festivals when we first launched a beta version of the WESAWIT app at UCLA. We were also really happy when we first launched our beta at UCLA. TB: Well we went to UCLA and loved the weather here!

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. Of course, if you can get a referral through a person I know, it''s much more helpful because I can get that person''s opinion as well. We have a lot of world class universities here. Do you have institutional LPs in your fund, or is this your personal capital?

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA). I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. The carve-outs were people who got executive MBAs (e.g.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Mike Gammarino: The approach we are going to take, is we've been working with schools here so far, USC, UCLA, and Caltech--where we want to go to career fairs, hold private events, and start interacting and building relationships with professors, career centers, students, and so forth. It's not for everybody, of course.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Wes Nichols: We probably have the greatest gathering of market scientists on the planet now, overseen by Dr. Dominique Hanssens, who is a prominent UCLA professor and specialist in the area of market response models. What is it you have figured out that allows you to do that correlation?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Her career path was pointing her toward a future in Biotech (she’d also cofounded a biotech company around the time), but one simple introduction recharted her course completely. Like Zach, he left UCLA to jump in with both feet. He’d just finished his third year and had built his own top-performing apps.).

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Her career path was pointing her toward a future in Biotech (she’d also cofounded a biotech company around the time), but one simple introduction recharted her course completely. Like Zach, he left UCLA to jump in with both feet. He’d just finished his third year and had built his own top-performing apps.).

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Of course, you should monitor social media such as Twitter, the social news sites, Facebook, etc. The Startonomics conference at UCLA Anderson business school, hosted by DealMaker Media, was a great event for the talks as well as the networking. Lou is a friend and colleague from UCLA Anderson. Tell Rod about the LA CTO Forum.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S. GumGum is led by founder and Los Angeles native wunderkind, Ophir Tanz. At the tender age of 15, Tanz teamed up with his friend Michael Schneider (the CEO of MobileRoadie ), to create the design firm Fluid Design. from Carnegie Mellon University.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Some events, like a recent Tech Coast Angel event at UCLA are really worth it. Of course, thats probably even more true in Silicon Valley. It has to be a pretty good event for it to be worth attending. But some events you dont get quality attendees and then its a drag to drive that far.

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LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

Enrou : Socially conscious marketplace started by UCLA graduates, and discovered by Troy Carter at the 30 Under 30 Summit in Philadelphia, where shoppers discover goods from all around the globe and support the people who made them through their purchases. SMASHD LABS First-Round Cohorts.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Many thanks to everyone who participated in last night’s Spotlight: LA Tech at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. Individual clips will be posted soon.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 12, 2010

The final showoff's have been selected, so that brings the count to a total of 10 showoff's plus a wild card from the demo night at UCLA (full list of showoff's below). Quilici received a PhD in computer science from UCLA, and from 1991-1999 was a faculty member at the University of Hawaii. . Founder and senior writer for GigaOm.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Many thanks to everyone who participated in last night’s Spotlight: LA Tech at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. Individual clips will be posted soon.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

If Avesta sees someone drinking Coloft coffee (organic of course), he quickly asks if they’ve sold anything. Evening guests and judges arrived including Scott Sangster (President of LA Tech Coast Angels ), Farhad Mohit (Founder of BizRate/Shopzilla and Gri.pe ) and David Carter (Entrepreneur, Investor, Mentor, advisor at UCLA/USC/Chapman).

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access. In New York you have access to fashion, media, art and of course, financial services.

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