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UCLA Gets $1.14 Billion For Rights To Cancer Drug

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The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) has sold the royalty rights to a prostate cancer medication based on research done at the school, for a cool $1.14 According to UCLA, it sold its royalty interest connected with prostate cancer medication Xtandi to Royalty Pharma , which includes cash payments of $1.14 READ MORE>>.

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Mogreet Hires Sales And Marketing VP

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Venice-based Mogreet , which operates a text messaging-based greetings business, said today that it has hired Jay Goss as the firm's Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Goss was COO of Numedeon, which operates virtual world Whyville, and also has served at Disney, Reed Elsevier, and UCLA. READ MORE>>.

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Announcing the agenda for TC Sessions: AR/VR in LA on October 18

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TechCrunch is heading to UCLA on October 18 and we’ve assembled some of the AR/VR industry’s most prescient founders, investors and executives to chat about the startups and trends driving virtual and augmented reality in 2018. UCLA, Los Angeles // October 18. Early Bird tickets are still on sale for one more week.

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NanoH2O Bolsters Execs

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Los Angeles-based NanoH2O , the clean technology startup developing reverse osmosis membranes for water desalination, announced this morning that it has hired Randy Truber as Director of Global Sales Strategies. Truby joins the firm from Toray Membranes USA, and also has served at Fluid Systems and Hydranautics.

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Electro Rent Adds Board Member

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Van Nuys-based Electro Rent Corporation , which provides rental, leasing, and sales of electronic test equipment, PCs, and servers, said this morning that it has named Theodore E. and UCLA School of Law. Guth to its board of directors.

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Boulevard books $70M to help beauty and wellness salons with their bookings

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It’s also a massive market — and by Danna’s estimates, still with a lot of untapped business — with Boulevard quoting figures that forecast personal care and beauty sales passing $1.4 trillion, and the spa sector passing $150 billion, both by 2025. Things then took an investigative, plainclothes turn.

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Burn the bridges behind.

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My sales tax payments were due in the next few days, and I didn’t have the money. But I did have an appointment, a sales opportunity the next morning. I made the sale, and paid my debts. It was about the earliest days of our life together when we moved to Westwood so I could attend UCLA.

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