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MAY 10, 2017

Social games developer Zynga has funded a new effort to increase the diversity in the video game development industry, through a partnership with the University of Southern California , Zynga said on Tuesday.

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MAY 2, 2014

In a bid to boost the Los Angeles economy and create new jobs in the city, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Friday that he has created a new "Entrepreneur-in-Residence" program, which will help the city in developing initiatives and policies aimed at growing, assisting and sustaining entrepreneurs in Los Angeles.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

USC hosted its first Startup Weekend from September 23rd to 25th and it rocked! We had MBAs, undergrads, engineers, designers, and visitors from all throughout the LA tech scene participate in the event. Overall it was a successful weekend and we are looking forward to having it at USC again. 70+ students. 8 business ideas.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

It’s a 54 hour frenzy, bringing together business people, developers and designers in one room to compete for awesome prizes! All day Saturday, developers and designers will work on executing the vision while business developers conduct market validation, research and a business model. THIS IS STARTUP!!!!

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MAY 11, 2011

The firm notably has Atari founder Nolan Bushnell as an advisor and serving as its chief game designer. So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. So Nolan is behind the design of the games? My other, non-marketable skill included philosophy.

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JULY 1, 2013

I then started another project, based on an invention out of the USC biomedical engineering department, a company developing an ultrasound device used for cardiac monitoring. Finally, I started a third project out of the USC Keck School of Medicine, using software to optimize drug dosages for individuals.

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APRIL 17, 2019

The Alhambra's major tenants include the County of Los Angeles, USC Keck School of Medicine, and Eastern Los Angeles Regional Center (ELARC). The Alhambra is "LEED Gold" certified, the second highest certification level for the LEED energy and environmental design certification for buildings.

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JUNE 20, 2014

While we happen to be located here, we have panels throughout today and tomorrow, talking about where in LA should I build my startup -- we have people from Hollywood, Pasadena, USC, talking about those neighborhoods. I get excited when people connect, and I really get excited when someone gets a job referral, or someone finds a designer.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Los Angeles-based Alelo , the USC spinout which is developing language learning systems based on video games, disclosed this week that the firm has been selected as a prime contractor by the U.S. Alelo said that it was selected by the U.S. Size of the deal and other details were not released.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

As we have developed over the last few years, we've started running our own events, and tried out our own connect weekend in 2014, and that went to a full week the next year. However, we have broad groups of entrepreneurs and types of technology, which makes it challenging to develop programming around that fits everyone.

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APRIL 30, 2014

In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies. The University of Southern California is home to many innovative students and companies.

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TechCrunch LA

JANUARY 17, 2019

The two had met in college at USC in their jet propulsion lab. From the site, Relativity will be able to launch its first designed rocket, the Terran 1, which is the only fully 3D-printed rocket in the world. “It’s always been the case that we’re developing our own metal 3D printing technology. .

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 23, 2018

Electronauts is designed to deliver a social experience, in which players can create music for their surroundings. The new title is immersive, but designed to be played in a social setting, like a party. Electronauts is an impressive title from the California VR studio that also developed the addictive first-person shooter, Raw Data.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 30, 2013

SoCal Code Camp is at it again, getting together an amazing pool of experts to speak in front of fellow developers and developers-in-training here in Los Angeles. The event runs for two days from November 9 th to 10 th on the USC campus. Confirmed speakers include developers from Twitter, Microsoft, and Google.

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JULY 16, 2013

Andy Wilson: Innovate Pasadena is a grassroots effort to engage a cross section of the innovation, design, and entrepreneurship community in this part of Los Angeles, here in Greater Pasadena. We caught up with Andy Wilson , who is behind the effort, to hear about why he thinks Pasadena needs its own technology identity.

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MAY 15, 2009

Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. A 12 - year veteran of the online world, he has worked in sales, business development and content partnership functions for Yahoo!, Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius.

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JULY 28, 2012

The team needed would consist of at least 1 non-technical business person (me) and 2 or more technical people—designer and developer. I was only able to create a team with non-technical business people and a designer. Before the pitches started, I ran into a fellow Trojan I knew who just graduated from USC, Nathan Doctor.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. What inspired you?

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Our interview today is with Alan Horsager , the CEO of Pasadena-based Episona (www.episona.com), an angel backed startup which has already developed and has been offering up an epigenetic test for male fertility. Where was the technology for this developed? I also have a visiting appointment at USC.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

User-Centered Design : Not only did they develop and program what they could, they also worked as a group to determine the design and user-experience aspects of their mobile apps. The eventual goal, the opportunity to get their app professionally developed to be sold in the Android marketplace. And the winners?

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Brandon Hance , Founder and CEO of Los Angeles based GoodThreads , went through college as a student athlete playing football for USC while studying business. Seeing all the different t-shirts at the walk, and knowing the hassle put into each one from creation to design and distribution, Brandon saw an opportunity.

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JULY 29, 2016

He's able to turn around a design in two or three weeks, rather than waiting with no idea when it will come off a container ship from Asia. In a similar way, I played that role in academia, at both USC and MIT. Because of that, the Mayor now has a Deputy Mayor of Economic Development, to focus on manufacturing.

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JULY 16, 2013

Product Development: philosophie. Whether the end goal is a functional business app or a mobile-friendly website, philosophie’s modern, open-source approach to development is sure to get the job done. Part accelerator, part lab, and part café, Hub LA is a diverse community working for social good. Incubator: Amplify LA.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

LA is the largest metropolitan area in the US for people employed in art, design and media and the local creative economy of LA generates more than $140 billion in economic output – more than the GDP of many countries. In fact, 1 in 7 or nearly 15% of Angelinos are employed in a creative field. What Do We See From the Road Ahead?

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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. What is LavaLab/what is the vision? It’s a typical “Aha!”

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2014

The real estate impact of this activity can probably be traced to the 2011 arrival of Google in the Frank Gehry-designed “binoculars” building on Main Street in Santa Monica. In part because there is not much developable or rentable space left in that city, the Santa Monica firms tend to be smaller.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

This second annual fest brings together technology leaders, startup CEOs, investors, Hollywood studio executives, entrepreneurs, developers, students and more to celebrate LA’s dynamic technology industries with panels, workshops, hackathon, mixers, and a start-up showcase spotlighting 40 local startups.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. Many companies are developing second screen technology, but few have come close to what Coincident.TV WOW, right?

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socalTECH

MAY 8, 2017

What we are doing has the potential to allow companies to develop more, novel treatments, for conditions, more effectively. When you think about the traditional clinical research opportunities, they are at the UCLAs and USCs of the world, the major research institutions. One of the major barriers to finding patients is geography.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Technology and IP law are at the forefront of the movie, and themes include common issues in startups regarding cash flow, IP rights, tech development, product design and distribution of equity. She has guest lectured on cyberlaw at USC's Annenberg School of Journalism. Christina holds a B.A.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

App developers are coming up with new ideas daily to make our lives easier. One guy was a designer, two guys were Ruby engineers, and I included – not an engineer. I think design forward companies, we can get a little more attention and more referral traffic from that fact that we focus on aesthetics. ML: I do.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2012

The idea came to John Kolker at USC 1 year ago, then through start engine him and his partner were able to make their idea come to life. Her idea won the AT&T Hackathon “It Can Wait” campaign last month and now the development is in the works with her team. You can also “mark your territory” and share your adventures.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Social Media and Urban Development in Hollywood. Keynote: Jeff Cole, USC Annenberg School Center For The Digital Future. Here you can find local and online/local hybrid classes for topics like UX Design & Programming or Social Media Law among other classes. 2:00-2:30 pm. Keynote: Mark Horvath, Founder of Invisible People.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Adam Bell (@datatv) - Web Design and Branding with an attitude! Clinton Schaff (@clintschaff) - USC Online Communities Industry Faculty. Cynthia Lou (@CynthiaAnnLou) - Designer, Writer, Web & Brand Strategist. Khayyam Wakil (@iamkhayyam) - Strategist, Designer, Wordsmith, Comedian. Adam Zbar (@Tap11) - CEO, Tap11.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2013

We sat down with Roland Trimmel, the head of operations for Re-Compose, (the developers of Liquid Notes) to talk music, technology, and business. If you look back, the original founder, Stephan studied at the USC Foreign School of Music, so there is a long standing connection with LA. Thanks for joining us Roland.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

and Founder at AuctionWagon), Ian Hunter (Co-founder/CTO at Zaarly), Grant Nestor (Community Manager at Factual ), Rahim Sonawalla (Developer Evangelist at Twilio ) and Rob Zazueta (Vertical Response). Guests, visitors and teams mingled away enjoying appetizers and snacks along with this LASW’s 3rd keg. Rob Maigret. Scott Sangster.

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MAY 14, 2021

USC Games, the program at the University of Southern California focused on teaching students how to create videogames and to enter the videogame industry, says it has launched a new endowment, the Gerald A. Lawson Endowment Fund, which will support Back and Indigenous students in game design and engineering. Lawson died in 2011.

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