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Startup World Cup - SoCal Regional hosted by LAVA and Pepperdine

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, January 28, 2020 -- Startup World Cup - SoCal Regional hosted by LAVA and Pepperdine. Startups worldwide first compete at regional events, and the regional finalists will showcase themselves at the Grand Finale event in San Francisco and compete for a $1m investment prize.

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Pepperdine Most Fundable Companies Showcase 2020.

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, October 15, 2020 -- Pepperdine Most Fundable Companies Showcase 2020. Now in its third year, the Most Fundable Companies competition has grown to over 4,500 companies, and for the first time attracted startups from all 50 U.S.

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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

SoCal CTO

He talks about a bunch of the different networking events that occur in Los Angeles and other parts of Southern California. And here's where you can find more events: SoCalTech Calendar – A great aggregation of events around Southern California that has been pulled together for years by Ben Kuo. They put on great events.

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Interview with Rich Branning, Sweep

socalTECH

We caught up with Rich to better understand the business, and why he thinks it's critical that companies like his step in to handle the labor intensive, logistics challenge that on-demand scooter companies have created for themselves. I'm originally from Palo Alto, but I graduated from Pepperdine in 2012. What is Sweep all about?

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

I recently got together with Aaron Shechet and an early stage startup to discuss the direction the company might want to take. I grew up in Los Angeles and went to undergrad at UC Santa Barbara, graduating in 2003 with Honors in Economics. While at UC Santa Barbara, I started a café which served over 1100 dorm residents.

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Entrepreneur's Journey

SoCal Tech Calendar

The Entrepreneurs Journey: Finding, Launching and Growing the Next Big Thing takes participants on a guided tour from developing the creative idea for a new business to delivering a high market value start-up. Also on-hand will be entrepreneurs who have been there and done that.

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Jason Lawrence Nazar

Tech.Co

Jason Lawrence Nazar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Docstoc (Acquired by INTUIT), the premier online destination to start, grow and manage small businesses. Before starting Docstoc, he was a partner in a venture consulting firm in Los Angeles where he worked with dozens of startups.