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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. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 23, 2017

The new group says it is working with Caltech, the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Riverside, UC San Diego, UC Santa Barbara, and the University of Southern California on its efforts, and also has a close relationship with Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures, who is creating a new venture fund (..)

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JULY 11, 2013

The first was Gevo, a biofuels company originally started in Pasadena and based on technology from Caltech and UCLA, and which moved to Colorado to escape local rules and regulations over its biofuels manufacturing efforts, and eventually had an IPO.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2021

In the current market it’s not that hard to find executives leaving: Facebook, Google, Airbnb, Netflix, Snap, Salesforce.com, SpaceX … you name it?—?to You’ll find engineers out of MIT, Stanford, Harvard, UCSD, Caltech or execs out of UCLA, Spelman, NYU, etc. I’d be willing to bet that you’d even see a lot of deals that seem amazing.

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TechCrunch LA

AUGUST 9, 2022

The pair posed as UCLA students doing research, Danna said, going from salon to salon asking questions about what worked and what did not with scheduling in their workplaces. “We started obsessing about this,” Danna went on. They decided that this would be what they would tackle and build as a business.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 4, 2011

UCLA's Anderson School of Management would like to invite you to Their inaugural PULSE Entertainment & Sports Conference.

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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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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

However, for students at USC, UCLA, and Caltech, that just doesn''t exist. The second, which involves a lot of people, is building awareness at universities--notably, USC and UCLA. That''s also true of UCLA. Steven Dietz: We have three basic roles that TechLA needs to accomplish. I think it''s also a little bit cultural.

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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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MAY 8, 2017

The company is backed by more than $67M in funding from such investors as Glynn Capital Management, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Amgen Ventures, Lux Capital, Redmile Group, dRx Capital (a Qualcomm and Novartis joint investment company), and Sanofi Ventures. We see you have the backing of Google?

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JANUARY 7, 2015

The contest starts on January 9th, and runs through February 15th.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

At Microsoft, I was part of Bing Maps, which is Microsoft''s response to Google Maps. We now have a team of nine engineers and scientists, with experience from companies like IBM, Demand Media, and Google, all part of our core engineering team. An example of that is the UCLA flood. Ali Khoshgozaran: That''s a great question.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

So much so that if you read Ken Auletta’s wonderful book “ Googled ” you’ll see that Larry and Sergey had for years stated they would never do paid search results. The patents Overture held became known in small circles as Google’s ’361 problem as outlined here. Yes, Google won.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 23, 2013

It connects to your linkedin, facebook and google accounts and allows you to collect feedback from any of your connections securely, simply and very quickly. This Spotlight takes place Thursday, April 25, at UCLA Korn Hall. The Entrepreneur Association is the largest student association at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 23, 2009

The firm is taking aim at the increasing interest of libraries to digitize their book collections; among the higher profile efforts in this area are Google's online Book Search offering. Atiz said its customers include UCLA, and the Los Angeles Public Library, among others. Pricing on the firm's new product was not released.

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Xconomy

JUNE 25, 2017

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur has set out to boost the startup ecosystem in San Diego and the rest of Southern California—and he already has scored a coup by partnering with Bill Maris, the founder and former CEO of Google Ventures, now known as GV.

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Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

As an engineer out of UCLA, Morgan has built circuitry systems for orbiting satellites and renewable energy drives for wind and solar tech. Samsung, Apple and Google have so far fumbled through taking the smartphone experience and making it bigger.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor).

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. There is a reason that companies like Google and Apple are notoriously tight-lipped when it comes to communicating their product strategy and roadmap.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

I had a programming job at UCLA at the time, working at UCLA Radiology. You can google him, and you can see he's now CEO of Lucid Sight, another Southern California company, which is in VR and AR. He sold it to ArtistDirect for $42.5M I was renting a spare bedroom from him throughout that whole process for him. I was a sponge.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

For example, if you see a TV spot for Toyota, and then Google it, or you see a display ad on CNN and then open up a tab in your browser, talk about it on Facebook, or even walk into the dealership, we're able to quantify, very specifically, what combination of what kinds of media drove that sale and how that activity interacted with each other.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. downtown LA].

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Sam Cimino, Sales Manager SW of YouTube/Google As YouTube’s Southwest Regional Manager, Sam is responsible for generating revenue across YouTube and the Google Content Network which comprises a media network that reaches nearly 80% of all internet users worldwide.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The reason why, is because there's not only a lot of effort competing with larger companies like Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo, but because startups don't have dedicated people to recruit talent from local universities. We don't even get a chance to see them. Does that mean job listings on your site, or more?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 15, 2012

Unbucket can be used by couples, family members, and close friends, replacing something they might have kept in Google documents or maybe just in their heads. Brian has a deep background in programming and also a law degree from UCLA. Elliot Darvick: Currently, Unbucket is myself and my co-founder, Brian Berman.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Google, Hulu, Riot Games, Demand Media, and many other big name players residing in Silicon Beach, it is no small wonder why many tech startups flock towards the sunny beach-side view. LA brings forth a lot of talent from USC, UCLA, and Caltech. With Yahoo!,

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). The poor guy. What a bad $200M decision.

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Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Although the Internet was invented years before on the campus of UCLA, It wasn’t until Christmas day 1990 that Tim Berners-Lee , completed the first browser for the world wide web (on a NeXT computer). Google designed Chrome to isolate browsers or applications that crash, rather than letting a glitch shut down the entire browser session.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2013

Both Waxman and Elbaz are serial entrepreneurs, with many successes under their belt (Elbaz with Applied Semantics, which he sold to Google, Waxman with such companies as Firefly Networks, SpotRunner, and PeoplePC). There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. We have a lot of world class universities here.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Just think what you could do if you had the top technologists from Caltech, UCLA, and the whole list presenting their major research to a room full of entrepreneurs looking for their next startup. What's really pushed that in the last few years are the major titans here, such as Apple, Google, Facebook, and others.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 5, 2013

The presence of Google and Microsoft’s outposts have helped to a certain extent, but Southern California can certainly do better when it comes to retaining — and attracting — talent. That kind of vote isn’t exactly encouraging to companies and entrepreneurs with new and potentially disruptive business models looking to plant roots here.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

As part of that, we started asking professors for recommendations on who we could talk to, and we found out they only knew one person, or told us to check out a magazine, or Google this and that. We also have a couple of grad school interns from LMU, UCLA, and elsewhere.

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socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2017

The universities are now more focused on the innovation economy, with schools like USC, UCLA, Caltech, the Claremont Colleges all bringing good people to LA. One is the traditional buyer, the Microsofts, Oracles, Googles, and Ciscos of the world, with their cash. There are four kinds of buyers in M&A.

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socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

I founded that with the former CTO of my first company, Kevin Smilak, who now works at Google. We went to college together at UCLA, and he was one of the early guys at Scour. For a couple of years, I was the head of a boutique software consulting firm based in El Segundo. Dan Rodrigues: Travis and I are good friends today.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S. Buying Google keywords will be popular and expensive. At the tender age of 15, Tanz teamed up with his friend Michael Schneider (the CEO of MobileRoadie ), to create the design firm Fluid Design. from Carnegie Mellon University.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Companies represented include: Disney, Warner Bros.,

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

If you look at just Caltech, UCLA, and USC, and you look at our population base, we''re pouring out more engineers than pretty much anywhere. You''d find one friend at Google, another at Facebook, you could sit together, iterate, and make it happen. The culture here is one that breeds the type of environment that creative people need.

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