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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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

At the same time, when I saw an old colleague at an event at UCLA a few weeks back, we both were discussing how hard we felt it was to predict success in this kind of venture. The poor guy. What a bad $200M decision. Why did YouTube win? Why did MySpace win? Certainly MySpaces tie-in with music was a genius move.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Some events, like a recent Tech Coast Angel event at UCLA are really worth it. Evening events in Orange County require about 2 hours of round trip drive time. It has to be a pretty good event for it to be worth attending. But some events you dont get quality attendees and then its a drag to drive that far.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 14, 2011

Wes Nichols: We probably have the greatest gathering of market scientists on the planet now, overseen by Dr. Dominique Hanssens, who is a prominent UCLA professor and specialist in the area of market response models. What is it you have figured out that allows you to do that correlation?

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I'm working quite a bit with startups who are leveraging social media, but I'm finding it hard to predict success and metrics. And how can an early stage company think about social media relative to important startup metrics (see [link] )? Lou is a friend and colleague from UCLA Anderson. How did you do that?

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2020

Leaseville, the pioneer in the virtual lease-to-own (LTO) space demonstrated strong metrics on its new product this year and is now poised to scale significantly. Peter founded the annual Recurring Revenue Conference one of SoCals leading tech events and is a senior lecturer at UCLA Anderson School of Management. READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 27, 2010

Wednesday January 27th Korn Hall UCLA. 2:15-3:00: Lisa Stone CEO of BlogHer and Bambi Francisco CEO of Vator.tv (moderated by Cathy Brooks)– Opportunities and Challenges facing women Tech Entrepreneurs, 3:00-3:45: Dave McClure – Startup Metrics for Pirates. After 3pm it will jump to the $497 rate. 8:00-9:00 AM: Continental Breakfast.

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