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Could you be the next Ford, Jobs or Musk?

Berkonomics

Leonard Kleinrock and a few of his UCLA computer lab students worked to send the first several text characters from UCLA to Stanford in 1969 over a direct line established for the test. How many entrepreneurs used that new Internet infrastructure to create an expansive vision of what could be? Commissioner of Patents in 1899.

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Could you be the next Ford, Jobs or Musk?

Berkonomics

Leonard Kleinrock and a few of his UCLA computer lab students worked to send the first several text characters from UCLA to Stanford in 1969 over a direct line established for the test. How many entrepreneurs used that new Internet infrastructure to create an expansive vision of what could be? Commissioner of Patents in 1899.

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

TechCrunch LA

Founded by Steve Poizner last year to accelerate the growth of a startup entrepreneurial ecosystem in Southern California, The Alliance is building a network of investors, entrepreneurs and universities to provide ballast in the south to the dominance of the Northern California tech industry.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. LA in fact has more entrepreneurs as a percentage of its population than anywhere else in the country.

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The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns

SoCal Delicious

The Startup UCLA Accelerator Is About Entrepreneurship Not Investment Returns. Next → Later today, the Startup UCLA accelerator will have its inaugural demo day. UCLA doesn’t aim to make a financial return. Being in its inaugural class, Startup UCLA is still sorting through its own identity and business model issues.

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Reflections on 2018: Kelly Perdew, Moonshots Capital

socalTECH

Editor's note: As we head into the new year, we've been featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. He later earned his JD/MBA degrees from UCLA. You'll be able to browse all of those contributions here.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

socalTECH

What we have done for the user, is used a patent pending algorithm to sift through north of a million data points a day, and thousands of conversations per second, to help organize and cluster highlights. An example of that is the UCLA flood. So, he launched Watsup, and the first thing it showed was a highlight of the UCLA flooding.

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