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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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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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Talks: Jason Nazar on how to Persuade

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Find out how getting he got his start-up funded using his knowledge of persuasion, sales, and even hypnotherapy: Full Bio: Jason Nazar CEO and Co-Founder of Docstoc. Before starting Docstoc, he was a partner in a venture consulting firm in Los Angeles where he worked with dozens of startups.

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General Assembly,XYZ Tie On Registry Website Design Contest

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LA''s General Assembly and fellow Los Angeles company.XYZ are offering up a free domain name, website hosting, and General Assembly course credits to entrants to a new design contest, which challenges web designers to create a website based on the.xyz domain extension. The contest starts on January 9th, and runs through February 15th.

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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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Insights: VCs Planting the Seeds for a Cleantech Bumper Crop in L.A.

socalTECH

John Paglia , an associate professor of finance and senior researcher of the Pepperdine Private Capital Markets Project. The city is also home to more than 1,100 startup companies -- the type of companies with the potential for high-growth and strong return on investment. READ MORE>>.

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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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