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Interview with Bruce Huang, UCLA Silicon Beach Innovation Lab

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The UCLA Extension recently launched a program called the Silicon Beach Innovation Lab , aimed at that gap. We caught up with Founding Director Bruce Huang , to learn more about what the UCLA Extension is trying to do with its program. What is the UCLA Silicon Beach Innovation Lab? However, it's very difficult.

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Stage 32: An Education Hub For Entertainment Industry Creatives

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by providing cutting-edge online education to a global population of people looking to make it in the ever-evolving entertainment industry. There’s a community feel even to our education. And the ability to bring education to the world has been our intention from day one.”. Educating the next generation of media talent.

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It’s Never too Late to Tap Into Your Creativity

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There’s a team of Los Angeles entrepreneurs who would agree with me on that, and they launched their platform Kadenze to help people tap their creativity. It’s also open to learners from anywhere in the world, giving unprecedented access to educational resources some may never have dreamed they’d be able to attain. Ajay Kapur, Ph.D,

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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

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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. I developed the idea over the summer, articulated the vision, drew out the site, and then teamed up with other students at UCLA and started developing KarmaGoat.

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Reflections On 2017: Peter Cowen, Sutton Capital Partners

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Our annual conferencefocused on educating our community on growing valuable tech enterprises-- set a record with over 500 attendees and our best attendee feedback to date. I continue to be surprised by some clever SoCal entrepreneurs who are creating out-of-the box companies that are opportunistic and reflect our markets ingenuity.

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Interview with Adi Jaffe, All About Addiction

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To understand how one local company is making that transition, we talked with Los Angeles-based All About Addiction (www.allaboutaddiction.com), a company that grew out of Adi Jaffe's work at UCLA as a trained psychologist. Adi Jaffe: I'm a UCLA addiction trained psychologist, specializing in addiction. Adi Jaffe: It is tough.

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Local Universities Get $360K From DOE For Cleantech Entrepreneurship

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According to Pasadena-based green marketplace firm OnGreen , the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), UC Los Angeles (UCLA), and University of Southern California (USC) scored a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help foster student entrepreneurs via a business plan competition run by the group called First Look West.

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