Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

Most entrepreneurs struggle with many startup founders dilemmas in building their business, and these key dilemmas are probably the biggest source of pain and failure for the entrepreneur lifestyle. No one wants to put in money until you have a product, and you need money to build the product.

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MARCH 31, 2014

It isn’t the biggest secret that the University of Southern California (USC) Trojans and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Bruins aren’t the best of friends, especially on the football field. On Sunday, March 2 nd at USC, these rivals took their battle to a new platform: startups.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC. The site started as a concept that Jeff Nobbs, my co-founder, and myself developed while we were operating a cash-back and coupon website while we were attending USC. Noah Auerhahn: We just had too much free time at USC. How did the company start?

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JULY 22, 2014

While we have become more productive as a society, with the advent of computers aiding our work, physical inactivity has become a high risk factor in contributing to chronic illnesses. It is built out of 5 years of research at USC. This was run out of USC? It could be a lot worse than just comfort.

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JUNE 2, 2014

Last month, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti created a new program, aimed at growing, assisting and sustaining entrepreneurs in Los Angeles. The new "Entrepreneur-in-Residence" program has appointed its first, two, EIRs--Krisztina "Z" Holly and Amir Tehrani.--both Also, the U.S. That''s very much part of our DNA here in Los Angeles.

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APRIL 4, 2013

When we arrived at USC, we began to talk about how we struggled during the recruiting process. Our coaches did not have relationships, and I ended up walking onto the USC baseball team, and Kai ended up walking onto their club lacrosse team. We took that feedback, and developed it into a really streamlined, minimal viable product.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. Tom Grasty: Essentially, we started off as a graduate school project at USC. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

Most entrepreneurs struggle with many startup founders quandaries in building their business, and these key dilemmas are probably the biggest source of pain and failure for the entrepreneur lifestyle. No one wants to put in money until you have a product, and you need money to build the product.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

Eighteen months ago, when MAKE IT IN LA's launch from Mayor's Garcetti's office was featured in a White House press release, we announced an audacious goal of reaching 1,000 entrepreneurs with our programming by the end of this year. We also started offering Factory Tour Workshops to entrepreneurs, with nearly 100 applying for the pilots.

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DECEMBER 30, 2010

We asked the same five 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 two weeks. At Archer we are focused on working with southern California's best entrepreneurs at the earliest stages to build disruptive new businesses.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

At the Technovation Challenge LA Pitch Night hosted by Iridescent , we saw six teams of high school girls from various Los Angeles City Schools pitch a number of mobile app ideas to a panel of venture capitalists and entrepreneurs.

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JULY 1, 2013

The incubator-- Greenwings Biomedical (www.greenwingsbiomedical.com), is led by Richard Koffler , a serial entrepreneur and angel investor in Los Angeles. I then started another project, based on an invention out of the USC biomedical engineering department, a company developing an ultrasound device used for cardiac monitoring.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Anna Sergeeva: After we raised a round of funding from the Tech Coast Angels and USC, we spent a few months really getting to know the events space. Anna Sergeeva: We see that consumer product goods companies, anyone trying to reach people, use the platform. How did you decide to switch over what you were doing and launch Planana?

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JULY 29, 2016

Z also has recently launched a new podcast series , where she talks to entrepreneurs here at the intersection of entrepreneurship and manufacturing. Z Holly: It started with my role as Entrepreneur-In-Residence for the city and Mayor Garcetti. We found that entrepreneurs can really help drive manufacturing, and that excites me a lot.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map. Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Miller was even honored as an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011. Follow PandoDaily: Search.

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AUGUST 7, 2014

We''ll also fill in product descriptions, filling in the copy you see associated with products on those sites. I had worked a year in investment banking, and Jasper was out of USC. The two of us really wanted to be entrepreneurs. angeles startup taskus outsourcing phillippines growth bryce maddock entrepreneur'

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

That technology is coming out of USC's biomedical department, which is part of its School of Engineering. Ultimately, once those issues are validated, it's how to go about building the product, recruiting talent, and enough capital to make it into a business. At USC, there's probably five or six different touchpoints.

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LATechDigest

MAY 13, 2016

Trakfire : a platform that enables its community to curate the best music from emerging artists, the third company founded founded by 19 year old USC Iovine Young Academy sophomore Arjun Mehta. SMASHD LABS First-Round Cohorts. All this is by design, per the vision of Atom Factory founder Troy Carter.

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DECEMBER 5, 2013

Wednesday November 20 th , 2013 was a special day for the technology entrepreneurs at the University of Southern California. The USC Entrepreneur Club and the Kairos Society brought Howard Marks , a successful entrepreneur and founder and CEO of StartEngine , on campus to speak about his past experiences.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 21, 2014

Sifting through the crowd, it was easy to see sweatshirts with Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, USC and many other universities. On the upper lever in the bleachers, sponsors held booths to tell attendees about their products and help students with their programs. “We Walking into Pauley Pavilion, was its own experience.

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MARCH 26, 2012

We met at USC, and we had traveled a lot with study abroad programs. Aigerim Duiseneyeva: We met with Idealab through a USC Marshall competition. We were still very early stage--an idea on a napkin--and for the past year, we've been building out our product. What's the story on how the company came about? READ MORE>>.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. If you want to hire very experienced product managers there are less of these than I would like. So it’s always a trade-off.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Where is the product now? Nikhil Jain: We plan on doing our product launch in Q2 of 2017. A lot of our partners liked that, because the product we are making with them is going to available to the mass market, in an easy-to-use manner. That's the entire premise of the idea. It's not accessible to consumers at this time.

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AUGUST 24, 2010

In light of the recent success, we sat down with Marc Averitt and Sharon Stevenson to talk about the recent exit, where they are with their fund nowadays, and what advice they have for entrepreneurs. The deal was at the end of April, but it wasn't announced until the end of July, when Illumina wanted to announce the launch of their product.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Internally, we look very similar to a tech company, in that we have a development team, go-to-market team, and product people, and the ultimate goal of what we want to accomplish is to create companies that can run independently, with their own management teams. We created a product that would allow you to print barcodes.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

One of the companies on that journey is Los Angeles-based Carbonics (www.carbonics.com), which is taking technology developed in the labs of USC and UCLA, and bringing it to use in the wireless semiconductor market. Remind our readers, for those who aren't familiar with your company, what your products are all about?

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OCTOBER 25, 2013

The wide range of startups is great and creates more opportunities for new talent and entrepreneurs to join the Los Angeles area. Pasadena another growing startup community, has startups focusing mainly on business products and services and sciences. LA brings forth a lot of talent from USC, UCLA, and Caltech. With Yahoo!

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MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy and Darren, our other co-founder who's not here right now, actually graduated from USC. It's not about what product we are selling, is what are your problems and can our product solve those problems, or is there something else where we can augment what we already have. What were you doing before? What were you majoring in?

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JUNE 28, 2012

Panels were based at hubs including Leadership, Branding / Advertising, Social Media, Entrepreneurs, Community and more. RT @OEInnovation #SBF why I live in #LA: intersection of #beach #tech #entrepreneur #entertainment. & ShipMate (UCLA) took second place and Where My Dogs At (USC) placed third. Photo by TechZulu).

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NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Brandon Hance , Founder and CEO of Los Angeles based GoodThreads , went through college as a student athlete playing football for USC while studying business. Soon into college he realized that a career as a professional athlete is not what he wanted and instead quickly caught the entrepreneur/startup bug.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency. He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA. Extensive experience as an executive, entrepreneur and as an investor. We will also have some of the top companies present that each of the panelist has invested in.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2015

The best person I know to talk about the growing entrepreneurship culture on campuses is Alex Zhang, a student at USC and the Managing Director of the student-run incubator LavaLab. LavaLab is USC’s first product design incubator program run for students by students. Student entrepreneurs are the future.

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MARCH 4, 2014

Though production does yield carbon output, Tom believes in the long run, just being able to carry vast amounts of data in electronic form has allowed hundreds of thousands of acres (of forest) to remain intact – as well as all costs associated. Some things you might not consider on a regular basis: Lithium ion battery production.

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OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. ScreenSync TV is just one product offering in the amazing portfolio of products Coincident has created.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

ML: Being an entrepreneur, especially with very little resources is like a rollercoaster. ML: I do mentor and advise a lot of young entrepreneurs, especially from USC since I went to that school. Build a minimum viable product and test it out in the market. People give you a better feel if your product has legs.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The show focuses on legal issues surrounding startups, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and emerging technology. Guest: interview with a special guest, ranging from world-reknowned business entrepreneurs to leaders in technology law and policy. She has guest lectured on cyberlaw at USC's Annenberg School of Journalism.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

I grew up in Thousand Oaks, went to USC, and we met each other way back in the 90's. I worked on several products, and launched many things. Thanks for the time today, it's great to get a chance to talk with you about your company. Brew Johnson: It's exciting to be building this business in LA. So, what is PeerStreet?

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