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USC Viterbi Launches Startup Accelerator

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Unified School District focused on incubating high tech businesses said it was looking to launch in the 2013-14 school year; Loyola Marymount, another educaitonal institutional here in Los Angeles, opend up its own startup incubator , and last month, Turner Broadcasting/Warner launched a media focused accelerator.

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CLU's Gerhard Apfelthaler: What I Learned In 2014

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We''re continuing to feature reflections on the last year from movers and shakers in the local high tech community, and today have thoughts from Gerhard Apfelthaler , who is Dean of California Lutheran University''s School of Management , which has been very active in Ventura County helping to promote startup and entrepreneurial activity.

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EvoNexus Open House

SoCal Tech Calendar

EvoNexus is an incubator for early stage high tech companies in the San Diego area. Friday, May 21, 2010 -- EvoNexus Open House. Overview of EvoNexus application process and facility tour.

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Interview with Matthew Jenusaitis, OCTANe

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Last year, we did fifty different educational programs, talking to on the order of 10,000 people in those fifty programs. Launchpad is a virtual incubator and accelerator, where we put companies in and give them quantitative and qualitative feedback and mentorship. Thanks for the time this morning. How has your first year been?

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

Both Sides of the Table

In California the primary school education system has cut 10 days from the school year to save jobs. Let me preface by saying I obviously have a vested interest in being wrong about tough times ahead but as the old saying goes, “hope for best, plan for the worst.”.

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Can Innovation Save Us?

Xconomy

Better edtech, perhaps in the form of next-generation MOOCs and other online training, might help people beset by the skills gap enter the high-tech workforce, which might help to slow rising inequality. But in the short term, videos and social media can also foment even more violence, as we saw in Dallas.