Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

I consider this trip the anniversary of the company’s starting up, and made the trip 11 years in a row. As I look back at insights I might share, I wade through the trite suggestions of ‘work hard’ and ‘treat the customer well.’ I woke up that next morning with a jolt – literally. Starting up'

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OCTOBER 6, 2017

We caught up with Lauren to hear about Hopscotch, and why teams and schools are turning to the company to power their mobile apps. Laurence Sotsky: I started the company about two and a half years ago, with the intent of connecting people to their passions. We got our start in sports, with a ton of mobile applications for sports fans.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

The benefit is unusual in what often seems to be an always-on, always-working, go-go environment in the Silicon Beach startup community. LRN--which is around the corner from UCLA--serves such customers as 3M, Dow, Johnson & Johnson, Loews, Pfizer and Siemens. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, October 27, at UCLA. If you’d like to see some of the best technologies and meet some of the brightest minds in beautiful Southern California, SIGN UP NOW. Where: UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Event Details. to 10:30 p.m. Community Sponsors.

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JANUARY 2, 2014

But, how do you start? The old way was difficult, time consuming, and often expensive; referrals, calling up lawyers, going through initial consultations. We spoke with Michael Chasin, the company''s co-founder, about the startup. You put your project up, and shortly thereafter, you get price quotes from lawyers.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Today’s startup innovators come from about six hours south of Silicon Valley. Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. philosophie has worked with some of the world’s biggest names: Google, Nissan, Nintendo, UCLA, and more. Silicon Valley?

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

TechZulu is excited to invite you to the 2014 Startup and Entrepreneurial Forecast taking place on Tuesday Jan. We will have a line up of amazing panelist who will share their insights and forecast for startup trends in 2014. The panel is comprised of Southern California’s Top VC’s, Angels, and Startup Accelerator founders.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

In the startup world, one of the most difficult journeys to market is by companies who are taking basic scientific advances and technologies originally developed at universities, and taking them all the way to use in the commercial world. Kos Galatsis: When we last talked, we had just gotten the company going and started to employ our team.

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MAY 23, 2017

Jonathan, who was Founding CEO and President of AdColony (which sold to Opera for $350 Million in June of 2014), also told us why he got back in the startup game, even though he could be just sitting on a beach in Bali after his prior success. Why launch into a new startup now? What is AppOnboard? It's been a resounding success.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

However, the recent surge in startup activity has attracted a lot more capital into the area, including a significant amount of capital from LA's latest fund: Karlin Ventures (www.karlinvc.com). TX Zhuo: I started my own business out of college, an e-commerce company. I sold it off for a really modest single digit exit.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2010

A friend calls me up from “you name it&# city: Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and says, “I’m thinking about moving to Los Angeles (or SF, NY, etc) and I’d love to start interviewing. Let’s start with the obvious. If she’s not up for transferring to UCLA – that’s fine.

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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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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Custom Insurance Programs for Technology Companies. Startups Made Simple. Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. www.pitchtheangels.com) Join Tech Coast Angels members and other start up investors at the 5th Annual Los Angeles Fast Pitch Competition. Think Glendale. Middle Market Investment Banking.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

This Thursday TechZulu and the Entrepreneurship Association at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management are pleased to bring you Spotlight: LA Tech Spring. Join us for an evening of demonstrations from vetted technology startups, followed by an inspiring keynote from Two Bit Circus Co-Founder, Brent Bushnell.

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MARCH 26, 2014

We caught up CEO and founder Dan Rodrigues to learn more. We use a recurring revenue model, where a customer pays us a few hundred dollars on average. Dan Rodrigues: The genesis for the idea actually started in my last business, between the first company I started--which was an Internet startup--and Kareo.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

Today, the conversation on Cleantech with a panel of entreprenurs, doing work as local VC’s, university, incubators, and startups. Sandra Itkoff – Entrepeneur in Residence, UCLA Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer. The floor opens up to Sandy Itkoff. Let’s Talk Money. Cleantech is About Connecting.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

The group--which was started by Richard Koffler and John Morris , two well known investors in Los Angeles--has been trying to help connect CEOs with interesting university and other technology projects. John Morris: I think it's trying to make a decent connection with customers, and trying to assess the size and viability of the market.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We went to junior high school and UCLA together. We were both in college when we came up with the idea. We were seniors at UCLA, and both of us in very different areas. We were both very good friends, living together, and we came up with the idea and thought this could go everywhere. What''s your big goal now?

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Their unique “provide value to customers first” mantra sets them apart in the digital signage industry. My favorite part of the interview with Nanxi starts right off the bat as she recalls the string of fortuitous events that brought the founding team together. Like Zach, he left UCLA to jump in with both feet.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The original notion of the company started around the idea of sender controlled communications. Within that, we started to focus early on around the opportunity of applying this in the enterprise, and subsequently, healthcare. Within that, when we started to canvas the verticals, healthcare bubbled up to the top very quickly.

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socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Anti-AgingGames (www.Anti-AgingGames.com), a new online game startup, announced a new service to help users improve their memory and concentration, as well as improve brain function. How did you end up starting the site? I ended up managing that project. This is my third company.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 27, 2013

TechZulu and The Entrepreneurship Association at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management are pleased to announce Spotlight: LA Tech Spring. TechZulu is ramping up to do it all again with an all new group of companies and a SuperDemo. This Spotlight takes place Thursday, April 25, at UCLA Korn Hall. Custom ad deals and partnerships.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

TechZulu catches up with the three to talk about WESAWIT, startups, and the LA scene. Thibault Mathieu: Morgan and I were both in film school at UCLA. We came up with an idea for an app and around that time we met with Chris. Morgan Rostagnat: It first started as a news-oriented app. What does WESAWIT do?

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2013

In 2006, Douglas Campbell started Mindshare LA out of the downtown art colony The Brewery. I was bored with bar scene, and started an informal party with talks downtown called Mindshare,” said Campbell. Campbell said the process of coming up with themes is purely organic. Tickets can purchased here.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

It's a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs. This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. I spoke about this yesterday on Fox Business News.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Their unique “provide value to customers first” mantra sets them apart in the digital signage industry. My favorite part of the interview with Nanxi starts right off the bat as she recalls the string of fortuitous events that brought the founding team together. Like Zach, he left UCLA to jump in with both feet.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2010

The firm was bootstrapped several years ago, and is profitable, and its founders are both MBAs from UCLA Anderson, where they met. How did Revolution Prep start? Ramit Varma: Jake (Neuberg), my business partner, met at UCLA's Anderson business school. We started in 2000. So, we're pretty connected with the community.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

At the same time, when I saw an old colleague at an event at UCLA a few weeks back, we both were discussing how hard we felt it was to predict success in this kind of venture. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? .

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Ive personally been involved in the start-up world in Los Angeles for about 15 years, and have had the opportunity to work on many early-stage companies (e.g., Some events, like a recent Tech Coast Angel event at UCLA are really worth it. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

For our Friday interview, we thought we'd catch up with Los Angeles-based MarketShare , the Elevation Partners-backed software provider, to hear where the firm is nowadays. Its primary goal is to focus on identifying what is truly driving demand, analytically, so that our customers can optimize their activities.

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MAY 2, 2011

What ends up happening in the secondary market, is that resellers might buy tickets for row 1 and sell them for a big percentage over face value--but, row 50 may never sell. When I graduated from UCLA in 1999, I started working for an accounting firm. It ends up, our margins went way up.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Mike has over 18 years of business development, marketing and management experience in businesses ranging from early stage start-ups to private equity and from mid-stage business to large turn-around operations. Mike continues to be actively involved with early-stage start-ups as an investor, advisor and board member.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

Tell me how you ended up at RealPractice, and a bit about the recent funding? I was interested in the opportunity, because although the firm had been around for some number of years, they had an interesting product, great customers, and the legal market is a massive market. Carey Ransom: I like to think of myself as a startup guy.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 10, 2018

On October 18 — just one week away — some of the most brilliant and innovative minds in reality creation will gather at UCLA’s Royce Hall in Los Angeles to attend TC Sessions AR/VR 2018. Creating developer platforms ranks right up there on the AR challenge-o-meter. Will Facebook’s customers buy in? Here’s a taste. Networking.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 6, 2013

It’s something of a sci-fi fantasy scenario: Driverless cars that show up at the touch of a button. Customers know what works well and are frustrated by the lack of innovation in the industry. “It’d be like a bad 80′s sci-fi where there’s a heads up display in your face, throwing nonsense at you.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

However, there's a new generation of technology driven startups who are looking to apply software and technology in a way that will change how movies are made, and marketed. What usually happens, is there's a barrage of poorly targeted ads leading up to opening weekend, and it drives downhill from there. It's all about execution.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations.

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