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FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The effort is being run by Professor Jonathan Taplin at the USC Annenberg Innovation Lab, who local entrepreneurs and investors might know as the founder of Intertainer; he also had served in the investment banking industry at Merrill Lynch and a producer in Hollywood for Martin Scorsese.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Big crowd of entrepreneurs, professors, students, and established professionals. I wanted to connect LA’s incredible entrepreneurs with the larger business community and with the resources of USC.”. Sellbot, an e-commerce platform for sellers made by USC graduates Michael and Payam Ahdoot, took home the grand prize of $25,000.

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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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OCTOBER 31, 2011

Thursday, November 3, 2011 -- Young Digital Entrepreneurs. USC Annenberg Innovation Lab. The USC Annenberg Innovation Lab welcomes a panel of tech-savvy innovators to discuss the digital market and social media and how they won success by engaging audiences.

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JULY 27, 2021

Join Genevieve LeMarchal at the next Oceanside Chat at USC Viterbi Startup Garage to learn the most common areas that entrepreneurs overlook when seeking their first round of equity funding.

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OCTOBER 28, 2013

Because the event was scheduled during Trojan Family Weekend, a weekend where parents and family from all over the nation come visit the USC campus, the event was filled with curious family members. He closed by saying, “We want USC to be a place where students and faculty come, and startups, innovation, and entrepreneurship are encouraged.”.

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APRIL 13, 2021

Dave told us a bit more about the Viterbi Startup Garage and several other associated efforts there at USC centered around the startup ecosystem. The Startup Garage is an incubator which gives preference to USC teams, or startups that are USC affiliated in some way, for example, alumni-led. What is Viterbi Startup Garage?

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Eric Greenspan

MARCH 25, 2013

As I began prepping for my talk at USC Marshall School of Business about the recent failure of my 12 year old company Make It Work, I cannot deny many memories were dug up. In 2010, after my 5th talk, USC Marshall School produced a case study about the customer centricity offered by the company. Then, something else happened.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

USC hosted its first Startup Weekend from September 23rd to 25th and it rocked! Then fellow Trojan Alex Banayan gave a talk about the three traits of success in an entrepreneur. Overall it was a successful weekend and we are looking forward to having it at USC again. Below is the entire USC Startup Weekend Demo Night.

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OCTOBER 19, 2020

Holly is an MIT-trained engineer, serial entrepreneur, and the former Vice Provost for Innovation at the University of Southern California (USC). Good Growth Capital says it has appointed Krisztina "Z" Holly --well known in the LA startup community--as West Coast Venture partner, as part of its efforts to expand its team.

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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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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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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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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Los Angeles-based Tilofy (www.tilofy.com)--out of USC''s Viterbi Startup Garage--is doing just that, helping to highlight what is going on around you, by absorbing all of that location data out there at any particular time and place. My degree is from USC in big data. As you probably know, Viterbi is the engineering school at USC.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

Thursday, October 30, 2008 -- USC Entrepreneur of the Year - Marshall School of Business. Richard Rosenblatt, Demand Media, shares his journey with a time for QandA. Email claudia.morataya@marshall.usc.edu.

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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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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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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. Not facing these dilemmas squarely and honestly is one of the biggest pitfalls facing every entrepreneur. Marty Zwilling.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Hsieh is a serial entrepreneur and billionaire, who founded and sold Cogent Systems to 3M. Hsieh gave $35M to the University of Southern California in 2006, which renamed its Electrical Engineering Department as the USC Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 19, 2012

We thought we'd get the pitch from Tim Sae Koo , the founder of the company, on how he took the idea from his business class at USC and turned it into a company, which is now part of one of the local startup accelerators in town, StartEngine. Tim Sae Koo: I just graduated from USC in December of 2011, with a business entrepreneurship degree.

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MAY 8, 2022

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. Not facing these dilemmas squarely and honestly is one of the biggest pitfalls facing every entrepreneur. Marty Zwilling.

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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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MARCH 20, 2012

On March 21, 2012, we will bring together entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds at USC  marketing, design, engineering, negotiation, fund raising, etc. - The University of Southern California is becoming a hot bed of innovation and entrepreneurial energy, but ideas and energy often don't translate to startups. Enter Startup Equinox.

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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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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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JANUARY 11, 2013

business community, and for our entrepreneurs to practice their pitch before demo day. Downtown LA is a major up-and-coming area for technology startups with easy access to the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the new office is located only a few metro stops from Pasadena. The new office?s

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

This year was particularly difficult, due to an explosion of startup activity in the region, which is now drawing entrepreneurs from around the world attracted by the rich environment for technology and media startups here. Philip Lelyveld , USC Entertainment Technology Center. Amit Jain , Bridg. Will Kassoy , AdColony.

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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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MAY 18, 2011

Known for its entertainment scene which blossomed in the early nineteen hundreds, LA also has some of the best schools in the country in UCLA and USC. The event will offer a cocktail event atmosphere for tech enthusiasts a place to connect with the local tech companies, entrepreneurs and more established LA companies.

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JULY 22, 2014

We spent a morning talking about the transition from being an engineer to being an entrepreneur, having the distinction of being the first digital health startup to emerge from USC Viterbi’s Startup Garage , and drilling down to what really matters in all of our entrepreneurial efforts – listening to consumers. This was run out of USC?

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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 That''s very much part of our DNA here in Los Angeles.

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Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

First, my thanks to Tim Draper for allowing me to use his song in my entrepreneur presentations at UCLA, Anderson School of Business and USC, Marshall School of Business. This song is the heart of soul of many entrepreneurs like me and I love sharing it. Anyone this rich must have lied. Chorus: He is the Riskmaster.

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

There's a tightness which is squeezing the lifeblood from the entrepreneurs, even as it remains an amazing place. But, there is broad agreement that it would be a wonderful thing to get more entrepreneurs and venture capital into the region. The first step, is to attract more entrepreneurs. You want those investors to be local.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Ashish Soni , USC (Los Angeles, incubator/university). event socaltech50 awards entrepreneur entrepreneurship feature dfr2013' There are also many movers and shakers here in the industry -- Jason Nazar at. Evan Spiegel , SnapChat (Los Angeles, mobile app). Holden Steinberg , Pagewoo (Santa Monica, advertising).

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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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JANUARY 11, 2013

StartEngine said the new office is a split-level loft, with access to such locations as the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and a few metro stops from Pasadena. The accelerator is the first one to target the downtown area with an office location.

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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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