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Southern California needs to find its hub for it to develop its own tech ecosystem

TechCrunch LA

The Alliance estimates that Southern California’s tech community could be one-third the size of Silicon Valley’s by supporting or further developing the six pillars it already has for innovation to occur. We’ve also seen a substantial inflow of venture capital from all over the world.”.

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UCLA 48hr Startup | Catch It Live On TechZulu

Tech Zulu Event

This weekend UCLA has put together 48hr Startup and TechZulu will be there to bring you all the final startup presentations live. UCLA 48hr Startup brings together people with technical, design or business background to share ideas, form teams, build products and launch startups. developing a business model. You can signup here.

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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

socalTECH

Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. That allowed me to take a summer to develop the new idea, and transform it into a business. When did you create the business?

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Local Angels Back Scripted.com

socalTECH

Scripted.com allows online publishers to hire writers to develop blog posts and Twitter posts from an online marketplace. Scripted.com also operates Scripped.com, an online marketplace for script writers, and was founded by UCLA and USC graduates in Los Angeles, and later moved to San Francisco.

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Makers Making The Sci-Fi Tricorder A Reality With VOXearch

socalTECH

We were looking at it, and saw that if we could take all these off-the-shelf sensors, and put it all together, and write some code, and make a user interface, it''s basically done. Unfortunately, UCLA''s money dried up due to legal issues. It''s assemble the parts and it looks much like a DIY project. So, it was not a good situation.

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Interview with Sunil Rajaraman, Scripped

socalTECH

to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. I went to UCLA Business School, and just graduated this past June. Are you targeting Hollywood and existing script writing software? What's Scripped?

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How to Not Suck at a Group Presentation

Both Sides of the Table

This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. So I thought I’d write a piece on how to not suck when you give a presentation. No one gives a shite about your features other than your product manager and your developers. It is not sufficient to write yourself notes and read them before hand.

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