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Accelerator Crazy In Southern California

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LA Cleantech Incubator , officially launched last week, and was created by Los Angeles Cleantech Alliance, a group supported by Mayor's Office, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Community Redevelopment Agency for Los Angeles, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, UCLA, USC, CalTech, and Arts Center College of Design.

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Paving The Way For Future Women Entrepreneurs | Technovation LA Pitch Night

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Entrepreneurship : Through working with their mentors, each team acted as a startup, conducting market research for their pitch presentations. 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.

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Behind the Scenes: Troy Carter’s SMASHD LABS with Suzy Ryoo

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Trakfire : a platform that enables its community to curate the best music from emerging artists, the third company founded founded by 19 year old USC Iovine Young Academy sophomore Arjun Mehta. Each mentor spoke for nearly an hour to the entire group, answered questions, and sat with each company for one-on-one mentoring.

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CreatorUp Links You With Top Filmakers & YouTube Creators To Make Awesome Web Series

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Mike Tringe earned his BA in History and Science from Harvard, and his MFA in Film Production from USC. He’s worked as an English and Film teacher at the American School of Tangier, and has also assistant taught film production at USC. Sara Akhteh received her BA in Film Theory from UCSC and her MFA from USC in Production.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

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With 10,000 square feet designed to inspire innovation, Amplify LA is the ultimate start-up accelerator and entrepreneurial campus — all to bring together the brightest, most enthusiastic technology minds into an environment that provides solutions, support, and collaboration. Entertainment Tech: Atom Factory.

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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

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We also had awesome group of mentors that included: David Waxman (Co-founder of PeoplePC, Spot Runner and Firefly Network), Paige Craig (CEO of BetterWorks ), Josh MacAdam (Co-founder/CTO at Ming.ly 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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How Amavitae Wants To Help Youth Find A Career They'll Love

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We came together with the idea of designing something that specifically addresses the skills and opportunity gap in our country. Deborah Ramo: It's interesting, but my background is actually in the entertainment world. Eventually, the idea was that the entertainment industry's workforce would reflect our audience.

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