socalTECH

OCTOBER 14, 2010

What is the idea behind the Tech CEO Network? The Tech CEO Network is there to fill the gap. Ultimately, once those issues are validated, it's how to go about building the product, recruiting talent, and enough capital to make it into a business. We need to be able to determine a pathway to a revenue generating product.

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Networking Research Startup USC 215

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

In his quest to better connect with new friends, Alex Capecelatro had a problem: none of the existing social networking sites were really designed to connect people with who you didn't know, and might share your hobbies and interests. We noticed you have lots of UCLA folks involved in the business--what's the link to UCLA?

UCLA 187

UCLA Culver City Startup Social Network 187

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. Votes came from both the teams’ network as well as natural visitors to the website.

Startup 101

Startup USC UCLA Southern California 101

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

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

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The attractive by-product is that I am reading more and working out more. Peter cofounded three companies: Data Voice Solutions (computer networks), Biometric ID (biometric security) and TransDecisions (logistics optimization) that all had successful exits. Peter has also been on the Faculty of UCLA Anderson for the past 10 years.

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Capital Southern California SaaS SoCal 124

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The new group, The Tech CEO Network , said it is looking to help bridge between the technology present at local schools like Caltech, UCLA, USC, UC Irvine, and other universities, and actual, viable companies. Tags: startups university research mentoring network tech.

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Research Tech Coast Angels Company Companies 164

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. One of our SaaS companies made great strides with a new product. What is the biggest lesson you learned this year? Two lessons learnedand relearned! READ MORE>>.

Capital 100

Capital SoCal Southern California SaaS 100

Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 4, 2014

First, we’d like to thank our exhibitors, sponsors, and venue (Dave and Buster’s Westchester) for supporting the all-encompasing day of industry insights and networking. Sandra Itkoff – Entrepeneur in Residence, UCLA Institute for Innovation and Technology Transfer. Technology Drives Carbon Reduction.

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UCLA Technical Review Software Review Incubator 99

socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of the companies on that journey is Los Angeles-based Carbonics (www.carbonics.com), which is taking technology developed in the labs of USC and UCLA, and bringing it to use in the wireless semiconductor market. Remind our readers, for those who aren't familiar with your company, what your products are all about?

Startup 100

Startup Southern California UCLA Incubator 100

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

One of those is Hollywood-based FilmBreak (www.filmbreak.com), which is applying the world of social networking, media, and the Internet to help film-makers gain access to the analytics and insights they need to better market their films. I was selling products to Live Nation, Demand Media, Kelly Blue Book, Rovi, and the Screen Actors Guild.

Hollywood 256

Hollywood CTO Hire Social Media Platform 256

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. Fast Pitch Los Angeles is one of the best start up networking events of the year. Robert Ramey Software Development (www.rrsd.com/socal ) - We provide services for the design and development of products requiring expertise in software, electronics, and mechanical engineering.

Southern California 113

Southern California Tech Coast Angels IP Orange County 113

Tech.Co

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Thanks to increased performance, better battery life, improved wireless networks, and an infinite marketplace to connect developers and consumers, the shift towards mobile-only is not just a trend but a reality. Or even worse, it relies on screencasting technology that is dependent on a WiFi network. inch Full HD display.

Technical Review 70

Technical Review Screencast Screening Mobile 70

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

SWNext Los Angeles has teamed up with Cross Campus to host the 5-week class that will be led by the founder and CEO of QuantSoft, Wilton Risenhoover, who also teaches entrepreneurship at UCLA Extension. It is also for established businesses that are working on a new product launch and have hit some roadblocks they need to flesh out.

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Class Mentor Startup UCLA 98

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 25, 2011

Join us tonight live at 8pm PST from UCLA Korn Hall for Digital LA’s Branded Entertainment panel right here on TechZulu. Director, oversees creative development and physical production of derivative webisodes (Grey’s Anatomy, Cougar Town, Ugly Betty, etc.), Check-In, Networking and light appetizers. davidbeebe.

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Entertainment Yahoo Electronic Arts Social Media 96

socalTECH

OCTOBER 24, 2013

We''ve created a really simple product, which is simple to deploy, simple to administer, looks and feels like SMS, and works like an app over the top, and has al the features and capabilities to unlock lots of utility to someone. Our fourth generation product allows for multiple directories in the app. That''s what we''re devoted to.

Yammer 229

Yammer Startup Mobile Organization 229

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

LinkedIn is by far the world’s largest professional network with more than 380 million members in over 200 countries and territories. But it isn’t meeting the needs of everyone, leading to the creation of several sites positioning themselves as the go-to professional network for niche industries. The stage is now global.

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Education Entertainment Class Manhattan Beach 81

socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

Mann, to his credit, with his multi-billion dollar foundation, he offered to find out what was going on, offering $100 million to UCLA to find out what was going on. Unfortunately, UCLA''s money dried up due to legal issues. We''re more like that, where we''re pulling together a network of experts where we need them.

Startup 262

Startup Competition Software Review UCLA 262

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

We're helping the entrepreneur, leveraging our network, introducing them to people, and helping them think about new products. Materials is as well, and I spend lots of time at UCLA, and Caltech looking at interesting materials. Everyone knows everyone else in LA, and there's a network of people who know other people.

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Redpoint Southern California Cornerstone OnDemand Invest 154

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Internally, we look very similar to a tech company, in that we have a development team, go-to-market team, and product people, and the ultimate goal of what we want to accomplish is to create companies that can run independently, with their own management teams. We created a product that would allow you to print barcodes.

Startup 231

Startup Technology Incubator Silver Lake 231

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 22, 2013

Thibault Mathieu: Morgan and I were both in film school at UCLA. We were initially covering events like sports and arts festivals when we first launched a beta version of the WESAWIT app at UCLA. Our most popular product is our Facebook app. It would bring more people to use our product when the content is more relevant.

Social Media 94

Social Media Startup UCLA Media 94

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA). I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. on all the computers and established a network using Novell.

Startup 337

Startup Venture Capital Study Course 337

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

You might be aware of their products – perhaps having seen their digital media signs in your favorite local restaurant or bar, but what you might not know is their compelling founders’ story and unique company culture. Like Zach, he left UCLA to jump in with both feet. We move the discussion over to early product days.

Social Media 106

Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 106

Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 20, 2013

One that they would want to attend that was hip, fun, had great speakers and promoted networking. A full day of exploring career opportunities, discovering new products and interacting with the most influential folks in the L.A Robert Jadon, Director of Startup UCLA. technology sector. What makes it fun?

Startup 76

Startup UCLA Los Angeles SpaceX 76

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Probably the biggest drawback of Los Angeles is the distance and traffic that makes networking more difficult.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

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. Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles. The poor guy.

CTO Coach 150

CTO Coach Southern California CTO Hire Social Media 150

socalTECH

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Some of the technical expertise resides here--we found some very brilliant acoustic engineers at UCLA who are doing a big chunk of the processing--and we in fact think we've done something sufficiently interesting that we have some patents in provisional state, and we hope to lock that down in the next year or two.

Startup 235

Startup Entertainment Los Angeles Ideas 235

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM). He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA. On Demand).

Startup 111

Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 28, 2010

Finding the best jobs takes a lot of commitment to taking many different networking meetings with executives, recruiters, entrepreneurs, VC’s, investment bankers, etc. If she’s not up for transferring to UCLA – that’s fine. At least I have their attention. Why do I give this blunt advice? Lots of reasons.

Startup 326

Startup UCLA Los Angeles Entrepreneur 326

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

You might be aware of their products – perhaps having seen their digital media signs in your favorite local restaurant or bar, but what you might not know is their compelling founders’ story and unique company culture. Like Zach, he left UCLA to jump in with both feet. We move the discussion over to early product days.

Social Media 81

Social Media Startup Screening Advertising 81

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business). So it’s always a trade-off.

Company 290

Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

After a short stint at a community college for some credits I needed, I was accepted to UCLA. Early on at UCLA I decided that I wanted to work on the political side of technology. It’s not just an innovator dreaming up a great product. plus a housing allowance. I also received an academic scholarship for first year.

Training 98

Training UCLA Technology IP 98

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Founded in London in 2006, the Hub is a global network of social enterprises with each individual chapter acting as a gathering place for innovation, technology, creativity, and positive change. Product Development: philosophie. Digital LA is the startup world’s largest networking organization focused on digital professionals.

Startup 111

Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles&#. 9:30a – 10a: Network with CEOs from this and the next session.

Santa Monica 40

Santa Monica Los Angeles Finaventures Angel 40

CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles&#. 9:30a – 10a: Network with CEOs from this and the next session.

Santa Monica 40

Santa Monica Los Angeles Finaventures Angel 40

CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles&#. 9:30a – 10a: Network with CEOs from this and the next session.

Santa Monica 40

Santa Monica Los Angeles Finaventures Angel 40

CEO Flow

MARCH 2, 2009

Aaron is also the Program Director for Entretech’s Nitro.la , a non-profit mentoring network in partnership with USC, UCLA and Caltech, to help develop LA’s entrepreneurial community by “getting more companies funded in greater Los Angeles&#. 9:30a - 10a: Network with CEOs from this and the next session.

Santa Monica 40

Santa Monica Los Angeles Finaventures Angel 40