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Five Area Firms Get DOE Funds for Concentrating Solar Power Research

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Five, Southern California firms are among companies who are splitting up $62M in government funding for the research, development, and demonstration of concentrating solar power systems, according to an announcement by the U.S. Southern California is a major beneficiary of the DOE grants, with Pasadena-based eSolar received $10.8M

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Weekend Workshop: Entrepreneurial Thinking + UX Design

SoCal Tech Calendar

Saturday, October 13, 2012 -- Weekend Workshop: Entrepreneurial Thinking + UX Design. Join us for a weekend workshop focused on entrepreneurial thinking and best practices in UX design and development. presented by General Assembly + Launchpad LA. See [link].

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March Capital Partners' Jim Armstrong On A New, $240M Venture Fund

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I think there are a lot of opportunities across all of these areas of technology, especially as it relates to Southern California. We know you invest globally, but are there specific kinds of companies you hope to focus on here in Southern California? Southern California, in particular, has a lot of talent in ad tech.

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Science37: Using Technology To Enable Remote, Clinical Trials, with Belinda Tan

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It's really hard to do the study which requires you to drive weekly to a clinic, find parking, deal with traffic, and wait in a waiting room. Belinda Tan: Most of our trials are Phase 2 and Phase 3 studies. We're now starting to plan to open this to Phase 4 studies. All of these barriers are very hard barriers to overcome.

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Moving Analytics | Sitting Kills, Moving Heals

Tech Zulu Event

SoCal startup Moving Analytics is tackling this global problem. Through simple design, extensive sensing mechanism research, and behavioral science principles, Moving Analytics is carving out its own innovative niche in a heavily competitive space by providing a simple solution for highly sedentary people. This was run out of USC?

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

He’s done several startups and is a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (which is where I met him originally). I have a few meetings with the team, perhaps about the website design, radio show structure, an event we are working on, a sponsorship (perhaps the uniforms for our youth basketball team).

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Interview with Alan Horsager, Episona

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We chatted with Alan about the company, the process of taking a new, genetic test to market, and his experience taking research from the University of Southern California and University of Utah and commercializing that research. Alan Horsager: This was developed at the University of Utah and the University of Southern California.

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