socalTECH

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The new prize, which is being funded by the Massiah Foundation, will award $50,000 each year to the best, entrepreneurial plan and idea to come out of the USC Viterbi engineering school. Maseeh told socalTECH that the prize was modeled after a similar, schoolwide competition at MIT, where he received his Ph.D.

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APRIL 13, 2010

USC--which is announcing the diploma program at TEDxUSC today--said the program covers such information as the financing, development, and commercialization of innovation, the innovation process, and might also help provide information for academics to create a business plan for bringing products to market.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

I wanted to connect LA’s incredible entrepreneurs with the larger business community and with the resources of USC.”. The second annual USC Silicon Beach event, hosted by the four professional schools at USC, featured a pitch competition and a conference filled with informational panels and interviews.

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MARCH 26, 2013

USC has just thrown their hat into the ring of the flurry of startup activity happening in SoCal with the introduction of a new accelerator, the Viterbi Startup Garage. Hollywood is looking for ways to redefine itself, market content, and jump on the tech boom bandwagon. It is getting hot in here.

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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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socalTECH

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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Tech Zulu Event

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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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

USC’s Marshall School of Business and School of Cinematic Arts present Silicon Beach @USC : an event highlighting innovation, new ventures, partnerships and investment at the intersection of technology and digital content. Come join us for Silicon Beach @ USC! Silicon Beach @ USC. For a map and directions, click here.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

According to the NASDAQ IPO Calendar, Fulgent is poised to have its IPO on Wednesday, meaning that it most likely will price its IPO tonight after the markets close, if all goes well. Hsieh--who holds the majority shares in Temple City-based Fulgent--is being honored by USC for the 10th anniversary of his gift to USC in the next few weeks.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

All day Saturday, developers and designers will work on executing the vision while business developers conduct market validation, research and a business model. Startup Weekend USC Free Tech Tix Giveaway appeared first on TechZulu. This is a very competitive 3 day weekend! Come out and fight on like a Trojan. THIS IS STARTUP!!!!

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socalTECH

APRIL 26, 2019

A new study, which looks at "silicon clusters" of technology companies outside Silicon Valley, finds that those clusters actually stimulate rather than compete with developed market clusters. The study--published by Professor Nukhet Harmancioğlu (Koc University, Turkey) and Gerard J.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Riordan, Lewis & Haden Equity Partners (RLH Equity), the private equity investor founded by former LA mayor Richard Riordan and former USC Athletic Director Pat Haden, along with J. Utegration is based in Houston, Texas, and serves the North American electric, gas, and water utility market.

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socalTECH

JUNE 25, 2018

Fountain Valley-based gaming hardware developer HyperX , which is a division of Kingston Technology, announced this morning that USC Trojans' Juju Smith-Schuster has been signed on as a brand ambassador for the company's HyperX gaming headsets. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

MARCH 28, 2014

2U , an online education company which has significant operations in Los Angeles, has had a successful IPO on the NASDAQ Global Market, debuting Friday morning as TWOU. 2U''s first, online degree program was with USC''s Rossier School of Education. Redpoint Ventures owned 23.2 2U priced at $13.00, at the high end of its $11.00

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OCTOBER 14, 2016

Los Angeles-based top level domain extension.LA , which has been marketing a top level domain which celebrates the association with Los Angeles, said it will be giving away stuffed bears at random to users who promote the domain on social media, like its Facebook page, or subscribe to its email newsletter. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. I’m more familiar with content marketing in B2B Marketing. I’ve got to imagine this makes tracking marketing spend challenging. CTM and USC, staff of Citrix Online, TCA members, and now you!

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socalTECH

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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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Outdoorsy , an online marketplace which lets people rent RVs, motorhomes, and trailers, is tackling the Los Angeles market, and is taking on the Los Angeles market with a big promo push starting today.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Temple City-based Fulgent Genetics , based in the San Gabriel Valley, has filed for an IPO, saying that it is seeking to raised $50M in an IPO on the NASDAQ Global Market as FLGT. The IPO is being underwritten by Credit Suisse, Piper Jaffray, Raymond James, and BTIG. READ MORE>>.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Statis Labs is a spinout of the University of Southern California (USC), and came out of CEO Dinesh Seemakurty's personal experience seeing a love one passed away due to lack of adequate monitoring in a hospital in India.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

According to USC Marshall, it tallied up the numebr of startup companies with $1 billion valuations, as a measure of business activity, and found that Silicon Valley had 39 percent of Unicorns, followed by New York (9%), Beijing (6%), Los Angeles (5%), Boston (4%) and Shanghai (3%). READ MORE>>.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JUNE 22, 2012

Partners include TIE, USC Marshall, BeWo and Southern California Edison. We offer an interactive experience with global executives and experts in: New India Opportunities, Markets and Trends Social Entrepreneurship Non-Conventional Financing Trade and Logistics Nuances. Commercial Service, and Quanta Consulting, Inc.

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

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. Thursday, November 3, 2011 -- Young Digital Entrepreneurs.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The site''s current offers in Los Angeles include Dodgers, Angels, LA Kings, USC Trojans, and other discounted sports tickets, in addition to concerts and theater events. Kanner is a veteran of the sports market. ScoreBig.com''s other investors include Bain Capital Ventures and U.S. Venture Partners. READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

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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SoCal Tech Calendar

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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socalTECH

JANUARY 16, 2015

in a venture funding round, to transform carbon nanomaterials research from UCLA and USC and bring it to market. We have been working on this at UCLA and USC, where we have been developing the technology, and obviously been putting forward patents, licensing, and developing know-how. How did the team come together?

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

City Council President Eric Garcetti, to mark its entry into Los Angeles, the 16th market covered by the company. The introduction of Zipcar to the Los Angeles market would be a first for the mainline, peer-to-peer car sharing movement, which allows car owners to rent out their cars on an hour-by-hour basis to their neighbors.

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socalTECH

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. Here, if you look at a school like USC, it''s just a long way from Santa Monica. One, led by Todd Gitlin, is getting companies to post internships.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

How do you take a new, genetic test to market, and how do you bridge the gap between research and the market? I also have a visiting appointment at USC. The two other co-founders, one at USC and the other at the University of Utah are professors at those universities. What is Episona? Those are the two big things.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

APRIL 13, 2011

Panelists: Kathleen Hurtado, CEO, Health Research Association of USC Mona Patel, VP, Neuromodulation Marketing, Boston Scientific Corp Lannie Tonnu Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer, Children's Hospital Los Angeles Anna Wu, Professor, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, UCLA.

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socalTECH

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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socalTECH

AUGUST 17, 2009

Los Angeles-based Language Weaver , a developer of automated language translation software, is expanding its efforts to tap the online translation market, saying that it is in a strategic partnership with WorldLingo Translations. Financial details of the partnership were not disclosed. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies. If the online solutions that exist in the markets today were adequate, that number would be near zero.”

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Tech Zulu Event

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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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. Mike Tringe earned his BA in History and Science from Harvard, and his MFA in Film Production from USC. Who are its founders? What inspired you? How does it work?

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

The USC Alumni Club of West Los Angeles is putting on an amazing seminar and networking event with host Sasha Strauss. They will look at why brands matter, who they matter to, how you can build them into your marketing, advertising and public relations strategies. The seminar is due to have rich content on all thing branding.

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