L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 20, 2018

Founders Bootcamp is a venture studio focused solely on high school entrepreneurs and run out of the UCLA Anderson School of Management’s Cross-Campus space. Santa Monica-based Trill Project, founded by four high-schoolers who want to make social media safer, received on Aug.

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Eric Greenspan

MAY 19, 2015

Years ago I began doing a presentation called Think Big for area high schools and colleges which included The Ten Commandments for Entrepreneurs. Since, I’ve presented at USC Marshall School of Business and UCLA Anderson School for 8 years consecutively, and countless times at other universities and colleges. Trust your gut.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2012

This weekend UCLA has put together 48hr Startup and TechZulu will be there to bring you all the final startup presentations live. UCLA 48hr Startup brings together people with technical, design or business background to share ideas, form teams, build products and launch startups. The top team receives prizes.

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UCLA Startup Ideas Mentor 87

SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 1, 2010

Friday, May 7, 2010 -- UCLA Entrepreneurs Conference. Now in its 25th year, this conference is UCLA Anderson's largest and highest-profile student-organized event. The Sky is No Limit" embraces the concept that even in an uncertain business environment, there is always room for the next great idea. See [link] (more).

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Conference Entrepreneur UCLA Organization 100

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

grant, to be given to a partnership including UCLA, UC Irvine, USC, and the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC), to connect university students with a network of venture coaches. blackstone launchpad student entrepreneurship program ucla southern california entrepreneur startup business' READ MORE>>.

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Southern California SoCal UCLA USC 182

Berkonomics

JUNE 1, 2023

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? ARPANET becomes the Internet.

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Artificial Inteligence UCLA Web Patents 156

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 15, 2019

Thursday, January 17, 2019 -- CES 2019 at UCLA Anderson. This event aims to bring successful entrepreneurs and executives and a glimpse off the latest innovations and their potential impact. Technology based disruptions are affecting almost every sector today including transportation, healthcare, financial services and retail.

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Invest UCLA Research Organization 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 12, 2010

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 -- Practical Advice for Entrepreneurs and Start-ups. Society of Postdoctoral Scholars at UCLA. Information about the Tech Coast Angels Mentorship Program. See [link] (more).

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Startup Tech Coast Angels Entrepreneur UCLA 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

JANUARY 20, 2019

Caltech Entrepreneurs Forum. Entrepreneurs are pursuing these Big Data opportunities in what is becoming the 21st century equivalent of the gold rush. Our speakers will share their views on the opportunities and challenges entrepreneurs face in building these new ventures, and give a clearer view of what's coming our way.

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CalTech UCLA Research Email 100

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. I think there is also no denying the role that Richard Rosenblatt has played in building the LA tech ecosystem and spawning great entrepreneurs who followed in his footsteps. “There’s something going on in LA.”

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Truecar 376

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 22, 2017

This technology preview is geared for Serial Entrepreneurs, Angel Investors, and Venture Capital Investors. Over 40 presentations from our region's most prominent research institutions: Caltech, USC, UCLA, UCSB, UCI, Childrens Hospital LA, University of Hawaii, Arizona State University, LA BioMed, and CalState LA!

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LAVA UCI CalTech USC 100

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2013

UCLA’s EA fast-pitch Conference is being held at UCLA tomorrow, with fast-pitch Semi Finals and the Final Round. Robert Jadon, Director of Startup UCLA. Every person listed above is an acknowledged and distinguished investment professional and entrepreneur. and Matt Richter-Sand, founder of N/X Fitness.

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Competition UCLA Entrepreneur Conference 82

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2018

The Alliance says it is holding two events--one in Silicon Valley at the Computer History Museum, and another at UCLA--which will feature Southern California "thought-leaders" and technology and life sciences innovators, to try to connect them with investors and serial entrepreneurs from around the state and country.

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Southern California Study Cornerstone OnDemand SoCal 149

Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2017

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?

Artificial Inteligence 256

Artificial Inteligence UCLA Web Patents 256

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, October 27, at UCLA. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Where: UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095.

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UCLA Company Companies Idealab 102

Tech Zulu Event

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. Cent (2 nd place Tech), a company from UCLA that allows easy use of crypto currencies.

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Startup USC UCLA Southern California 101

SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 22, 2017

This technology preview is geared for Serial Entrepreneurs, Angel Investors, and Venture Capital Investors. Join us at Cal State Los Angeles for a full day of innovations and technologies presented by the region's finest researchers and inventors!

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LAVA UCI CalTech UCLA 100

SoCal Tech Calendar

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Harvard, Caltech, UCLA, USC, the BBC, and NASA. Join us as David shares his founder success journey as an entrepreneur with advice for other founders, and his thoughts on what's next in the world of enterprise technology.

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Burbank Angel CalTech USC 100

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2012

NanoH2O, whose technology is based on research originally developed at UCLA, uses thin-film nanocomposite membrane technology for seawater desalination. NanoH2O is led by serial entrepreneur Jeff Green. NanoH2O said it has now raised $75M in equity, and more than $100M total in equity and debt.

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El Segundo Funding UCLA Equity 237

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

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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UCLA Invest Startup Class 47

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. On the one hand, an entrepreneur should not be overly paranoid and should know the ropes that VCs and other professional investors generally will not sign NDAs to see the concept or a prototype--and even if they did, it would not provide much protection.

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Product Entrepreneur Social Media Google 150

socalTECH

JUNE 13, 2011

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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UCLA Startup Ideas Help 256

SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 22, 2011

NextGen Hollywood hosted at UCLA will focus on themes of Hollywood and Technology. NextGen Hollywood brings together current rockstar and aspiring entrepreneurs, technologists, producers, and actors. Join us for a full day in Los Angeles at UCLA to learn from the very best! Thursday, July 28, 2011 -- NEXTGEN 2011.

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UCLA Hollywood Los Angeles Entrepreneur 100

socalTECH

JUNE 23, 2017

The new group says it will develop initiatives that encourage tech entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and top talent to locate to and stay in Southern California, complementing and extending the success of Silicon Valley and the Bay Area. Bill Maris recently opened up Section 32 as a new, $150M investment fund in San Diego.

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Southern California San Diego Riverside Santa Barbara 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Fellowship Program to connect the city's many new graduates with local businesses and entrepreneurs, and new efforts to help entrepreneurs find resources like accelerators, commercial real estate, and more. What's the best way to encourage development of the technology industry in Los Angeles?

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Los Angeles Technology Culver City Angel 242

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

His startup, Culver City-based Hyphos , just launched an early beta access at UCLA--his alma mater, and that of a number of his co-founders--this week, so we thought we'd learn more about what drove him to quit his job, and start the company. We noticed you have lots of UCLA folks involved in the business--what's the link to UCLA?

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UCLA Startup Culver City Social Network 187

socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2011

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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CalTech UCLA Southern California Pasadena 165

SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 9, 2009

Panel" Scripped.com and the UCLA Anderson School of Management Entrepreneurs Association. Students from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and UCLA Film School will be present. Other LA-Area media entrepreneurs will also be invited to the event. Wednesday, April 15, 2009 -- "Hollywood 2.0

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Hollywood UCLA Entrepreneur Media 113

TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

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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Southern California Dollar Shave Club SoCal Develop 224

socalTECH

OCTOBER 5, 2011

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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UCLA Research Tech Coast Angels Offshore 204

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Business Insider tells the story of Vergence Labs , founded by Erick Miller and Jonathan Rodriguez, and their roots at UCLA and Stanford. Venice-based Snapchat 's newest product--Snap-recording sunglasses--is the result of the work of another, Los Angeles startup--Vergence Labs--which was quietly acquired by Snapchat back in 2014.

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Snapchat UCLA Startup Venice 100

socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2016

Los Angeles-based HelloTech , the on-demand, in-home technical services company founded by serial entrepreneur and tech investor Richard Wolpert, said it is expanding into San Diego, and has begun offering up its services in the city. The company now offers up its services in Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego.

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San Diego Orange County Services UCSD 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 23, 2020

I have been able to work closer with my entrepreneurs, as well as closer with other incubators and accelerators than would have been the case. Caltech and UCLA are now equidistant from CU Boulder and MIT, and that has been a surprising benefit. What was the biggest lesson you learned this year?

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Capital Technical Review Southern California CalTech 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 28, 2017

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. Peter has also been on the Faculty of UCLA Anderson for the past 10 years. He has a BA from University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from UCLA Anderson. READ MORE>>.

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Capital Southern California SaaS SoCal 124

socalTECH

JUNE 21, 2018

That was the question at the SoCal First Look Showcase , run by the Alliance for SoCal Innovation and the Los Angeles Venture Association at UCLA on Wednesday.

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Southern California SoCal Dollar Shave Club Cornerstone OnDemand 113

Tech.Co

JUNE 27, 2017

This RED Talk will discuss: How Tracy made the transition from artist, to entrepreneur, to CEO of one of the most successful online marketplaces for a massive community of 7 million users. Talks series sponsor is UCLA Extension. The importance of remaining committed to your vision in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds.

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Los Angeles Angel Commerce UCLA 70

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Are you an entrepreneur hoping to startup a company in the Los Angeles area? Southern California apparently has no shortage of investors, entrepreneurs, and others eager to help budding entrepreneurs. Howard Marks: We're a startup accelerator, which will help entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days.

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CTO Coach Startup Mentor Activision 194