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MARCH 3, 2013

Disruption of Education. He talked about how for centuries education had “no technological core” (meaning it was bound by physical locations) and thus disruption was very difficult. Today’s higher education is responding by making more courses online and available to people outside of physical boundaries. .

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Fountain Valley-based HyperX , the gaming accessories arm of Kingston Technology, is taking aim at the education market this year--saying it is offering up deals on its gaming peripherals specifically for helping students in virtual class sessions.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

president obama silicon beach startup technology high tech' Obama explained, "What we want to do is build portability into the system, and flexibility into the system, to duplicate the security you had in the previous generation.". READ MORE>>.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

Lake Forest-based Higher Ground Education, which operates a network of Montessori schools in the US and China, says it has acquired software developer Altitude Learning LMS. According to Higher Ground, it has acquired the Altitude Learning LMS technology, along with Altitude's product and engineering teams.

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MARCH 9, 2017

Los Angeles-based Local Roots Farms , a startup located at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI), says it is showing off a traveling, indoor farm at SXSW, which showcases its hydroponic technology. Local Roots says it is developing technology for its "TerraFarms" to help encourage high quality, locally-grown produce.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

Los Angeles has been in the midst of a technology boom over the last few years, with many of high profile startups growing in the area. We spoke with Bryce Maddock , founder of TaskUs, about the company and how it has been providing the manpower behind a lot of LA''s technology startups. So, what is TaskUs?

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DECEMBER 4, 2014

Los Angeles-based Vantage Media said Thursday that it is selling its Education Services Business--which sells leads to education advertisers--to Campus Explorer , as it looks to sharpen its focus on the technology behind its real time bidding (RTB) advertising platform. Financial terms of the sale were not announced.

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APRIL 17, 2019

A new, Los Angeles venture capital fund, AET Fund said on Wednesday that it has raised $50M to make investments in entertainment technology, and hired someone to head up its U.S. investment efforts. AET Fund said that so far, it has made investments in six different startups, including HypeVR, FABLE STUDIO, Tyffon Inc., and ALE Co.,

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JULY 17, 2019

Looking to boost your skills and get a job in the technology industry?

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MAY 29, 2013

A local, clean energy business plan competition started by the California Insitute of Technology (Caltech), the University of Southern California (USC), and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has awarded $160,000 in prizes in its latest competition. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

The University of California, Los Angeles is looking to an outside board to help it negotiate technology transfer and research deals with companies, according to reports. The group will tap a yet un-named group of outside experts to help technology startups coming out of UCLA to better navigate their way through commercialization efforts.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The funding was led by Owl Ventures, and also included prior investor Upfront Ventures and Thrive Capital, plus Rethink Education. Los Angeles-based Imbellus , which develops skills assessment software which it says helps organizations assess job seekers by how they think, rather than by what they know, has raised $14.5M

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JANUARY 30, 2018

El Segundo-based Mattel , and Chinese Internet technology and video game developer NetEase , said this morning that the two are in a new joint venture to public mobile games and education apps.

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DECEMBER 21, 2018

Two, Los Angeles-area nonprofits aimed at the "maker" and technology education market-- LA Makerspace and Imagination.org , said late Thursday that they have merged with the Two Bit Circus Foundation , the nonprofit created by Two Bit Circus to promote STEAM education.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Its technology play is not just related to Entity’s curriculum being focused on tech; as you might expect in an edtech startup, Entity also leans heavily on the data that it has amassed to build its strategy and its business. Entity’s own story fits into both of those story lines. But that also speaks to potential opportunities.

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APRIL 6, 2021

Los Angeles-based Carrot Group, which develops an e-sports based product to engage students in learning science, technology, engineering, arts and math (STEAM) skills, says it is in a collaboration with Lenovo to expand adoption of its product in school districts.

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MARCH 7, 2014

The new funding was led by Institutional Venture Partners, and also included GSV Capital, Rethink Education, Maveron, and Western Technology Investment. general assembly angeles venture capital learning digital school technology' IVP''s Todd Chaffee joins the company''s board. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 10, 2013

However, the whole business of those companies working with medical offices is one sorely in need of technology. We spoke with Dan Gilman , President and co-founder of the company, to learn more about the company, it''s market, and why healthcare information technology is such an interesting area for investors. What is RxVantage?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 19, 2020

Technical entrepreneurs love their technology, and often are driven to launch a startup on the assumption that everyone will buy any solution which highlights this technology. These founders all seem to be pushing their technology, rather than highlighting their solution to a painful need. Limit the features and complexity.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

intersection of technology and music. All of these startups are applying technology (software development and algorithms) to some aspect of music and the music business. The firm's apps are revolutionizing sheet music, applying modern technology to what has--until recently--been stuck in the era of pencil and paper.

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JULY 13, 2011

Today's interview is with Los Angeles-based Miso Media , a developer of iPad-based music education software, which uses note detection to help users learn guitar, ukulele, and banjo. It's a diverse group, both entertainment and technology. It's the gamification of music education. How did you find those investors?

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MAY 14, 2014

irvine university california medical school education technology lifescience health surgery' Photo of UCI assistant professor and associate dean Dr. Warren Wiechmann. Photo credit: Steve Zylius/UC Irvine. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

You get Storybots , a brand new, online service with the sensibility of JibJab's comedic content cross pollinated with kids educational entertainment.

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TechCrunch LA

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

and international cities like London, Mexico City, Seoul and Vilnius are building professional social networks for black professionals and blue collar workers, fashion labels, educational tools in augmented reality, kids entertainment, and an interactive entertainment production company. The new batch of startups coming from across the U.S.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

50:30 Will Udacity change the education system in this country? 55:45 It seems obvious that technology is the natural choice to solve the pain points in education. 1:00:00 Mark and Steve discuss the role of unions in education. 49:30 Steve: When’s the last time venture capital actually led an innovation?

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JANUARY 23, 2013

In a sign of the growth of the Silicon Beach technology world, last year, Google moved its headquarters out of a space on Arizona Avenue in Santa Monica, and into a new fancy headquarters space in Venice. We do none of our own events, none of our own education, and none of our own acceleration. What's the idea with ROC?

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

The technology team disagrees on direction and wants resolutions. He was a really nice and personable guy who had deep domain knowledge in an industry that he’d worked in for 10 years that is in need of technological advancement. Your head of sales thinks she should fire somebody. He wanted to be the guy who did it.

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JANUARY 30, 2019

The University of Southern California and 3D game development engine developer Unity Technologies are launching a brand new, online game design course , aimed at both students and "lifelong learners", to help them design and publish their own original games, the two announced on Tuesday.

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MARCH 16, 2018

LiveEdu (aka Education Ecosystem), a new startup in the blockchain area which wants to enable the live streaming of educational content, said it has raised $10M in crowdfunding, and set up its headquarters in Los Angeles. Education Ecosystem's CEO is Dr. Michael J. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 28, 2020

Los Angeles-based Two Bit Circus Foundation , the nonprofit, educational organization associated with Two Bit Circus , says it is partnering with the Annenberg Foundation 's educational division, Annenberg Learner , to provide access to more than 150 hands-on science, arts, and tech projects. READ MORE>>.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

The primary stipulation is that each Thiel Fellow must drop out of college, for at least two years, and pursue their “entrepreneurial ventures, research and self-education.”. Gates’ experiential approach to learning programming is typical of entrepreneurs, especially those with little formal education. Entrepreneurs are misfits.

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JANUARY 25, 2013

The tool, which lets users analyzing the web traffic from their promotions, lets users click into a map of where users are interacting with their promotions, and get detailed demographics data--household income, education, net worth, neighborhood data, and more--at the street level.

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APRIL 6, 2015

angeles camp code software education school hackreactor reactor hack makersquare' The two said that MakerSquare will launch its first class on June 29th. San Francisco-based Hack Reactor acquired MakerSquare in January. Hack Reactor said that MakerSquare has three founders who are University of Southern California graduates. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Nachman is the former Chief Business Officer of Velocify, and also served at Marlin Equity Partners, Phoenix Energy Technologies, McKinsey and Company, and Kidder, Peabody & Company. Vision Internet provides government website development, and says it has nearly 600 government, non-profit and education clients. READ MORE>>.

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DECEMBER 30, 2016

This holiday season, we are again sharing the reflections on 2016 from Southern California's technology ecosystem. What's your favorite technology gadget, device, or innovation you ran across this year? Finally, what do you think will have the biggest impact on the technology industry in 2017?

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DECEMBER 28, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world this year?

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Berkonomics

OCTOBER 12, 2017

They include an expense account, company car, profit sharing, 401k contributions, medical coverage for dependents, free life insurance, educational payments, extra vacation, relocation expenses, paid trips to industry association meetings, or a small override on revenue from new products developed under the candidate’s watch.

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