Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2017

So my wife sprung into action and contacted our nearest university, UCLA, to see whether they had a need for “care packages” for incoming students who had no parents or support system. It turned out that UCLA had a Guardian Scholar program set up since they have around 100 students entering every year out of foster care / homelessness.

UCLA

socalTECH

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The firm showed off its service at the DEMO conference today, saying that its service is now available at both USC and UCLA, and will soon launch at Stanford. Flinja was co-founded by Victor Young, Rebecca Bahr, and Calvin Shen, and was part of the Summer 2012 class from Howard Marks' StartEngine effort.

UCLA

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Steve is helping to spearhead the efforts of TechLA Internships (techla.internships.com), an online site which lists local internships at high tech companies for college students. However, for students at USC, UCLA, and Caltech, that just doesn''t exist. That''s also true of UCLA. I think it''s also a little bit cultural.

Startup

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 20, 2011

This Spotlight takes place Thursday, October 27, at UCLA. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content. Where: UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095.

UCLA

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 10, 2017

A new website, ElectroMotive , which recently launched here in Los Angeles, is hoping that its site might convince more people to switch to electric cars. The site--created by he 11th Hour Project and Insight Campaigns--says it is aimed helping Angelenos browse, learn, and "fall in love with the next generation of cars."

USC

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

We spoke with CEO Kai Stubble to hear about how SupperKing is looking to create a service--inspired by collaborative consumption sites like Airbnb--which will let people host meals in their homes for strangers, to get to meet new people, show off your cooking skills, and hopefully make new friends. First, what is SupperKing all about?

Platform

socalTECH

DECEMBER 5, 2012

We spoke with CEO Kai Stubbe to hear about how SupperKing is looking to create a service--inspired by collaborative consumption sites like Airbnb--which will let people host meals in their homes for strangers, to get to meet new people, show off your cooking skills, and hopefully make new friends. First, what is SupperKing all about?

Platform

socalTECH

OCTOBER 31, 2013

JumpStartFund , the online, crowd-sourcing site which looks to help create companies using the power of the community, said today that its community members have named the company which is looking to bring Elon Musks''s Hyperloop concept to life. READ MORE>>. jumpstartfund hyperloop elon musk transporation incubator spacex'

El Segundo

socalTECH

JULY 22, 2020

Torrance-based The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation announced on Tuesday that it has received $1.75M as a donation, to fund a multi-site, clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the compound psilocybin in individuals with severe psychological distress associated with a terminal medical illness.

Torrance

socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

Recently, we learned about Solarmer Energy , a spinout of UCLA, which is developing flexible solar panels, and caught up with Woolas Hsieh , President and Founder of the firm and Dina Lozofsky , VP, Corporate Development at the firm to hear more about its emerging technology. How did this go from technology in a lab at UCLA, to a company?

UCLA

SoCal Tech Calendar

AUGUST 31, 2010

The German American Business Association (GABA) and Epic States, invite you to an exciting workshop and panel discussion focusing on the social media industry followed by a reception at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Over the past few years, social networking sites have experienced explosive growth.

Social Media

socalTECH

MAY 2, 2011

When I graduated from UCLA in 1999, I started working for an accounting firm. What we are doing now, is we've re-imagined the whole site, its functionality, and made it more interactive and made it easier for users to navigate. But, what we've noticed, from activity on our site and sales--is it is getting very hot again.

Ticketmaster

socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2008

Writers can log into our site, upload their project, and select from over 4,000 markets, and send their work out to the world physically with a single click. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. My background, is I'm from Los Angeles.

Writing

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

We're the only site that is specialized in people over the age of 35 in that area. How did you end up starting the site? Out of over every ten people who see the site, one or two are really gravitate or are attached to it. What does Anti-AgingGames do? There is lots of competition in this area for serving retirement homes.

Study

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Los Angeles-based social networking site and online video advertising firm Auditude announced this morning that the two companies have partnered with MTV Networks to insert ads into user uploaded videos on MySpace. According to the firms, MySpace is using technology from Auditude to identify professional videos and insert video advertising.

Networking

socalTECH

MARCH 1, 2013

The beauty of platform is fans are signing into Facebook when fans engage with films on our site, and those film makers are collecting valuable data and page profiles on their audience. This has been very appealing to the top tier filmmakers, who have A-list and B-list talent. Where's the service now?

Hollywood

socalTECH

MAY 13, 2016

CENIC (Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California) runs the California Research and Education Network (CalREN) , which connects such institutions as Caltech, UCLA, USC, Cal State LA, and the Los Angeles Community Colleges, as well as K-20 students and educators.

Los Angeles

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

We've been able to get a bunch of applications already through word of moth, from talks at different classes, and most recently at the UCLA Business School. USC is producing lots of very talented game professionals, and so is UCLA. We've got a schedule and calendar on our site with details. Howard Marks: Absolutely.

CTO Coach

socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

Plus, younger attorneys understand technology, and are used to sites like eBay, Etsy, and others like that. We also have a couple of grad school interns from LMU, UCLA, and elsewhere. It took us about six to eight months to build our first version, which we launch in July. You''re opening up your life to someone, and doing it online.

Help

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?"

Social Network

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Does that mean job listings on your site, or more? Mike Gammarino: The approach we are going to take, is we've been working with schools here so far, USC, UCLA, and Caltech--where we want to go to career fairs, hold private events, and start interacting and building relationships with professors, career centers, students, and so forth.

Startup

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

By offering that software for free, we've attracted over 10,000 writers to our site. What we've done, is we attract those writers to our site, and have a revenue model based on the content. That target market is huge, and includes sites like YouTube, you also have Revision3, and other sites doing short videos.

Content

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

We looked at other sites, such as Cross Campus Santa Monica, and we saw the events they were running, which we went to a lot before they opened a location here. There are also many from USC and UCLA. We looked around the country at other co-working spaces, and see how it's been the hub for lots of growth and activity.

Pasadena

socalTECH

MAY 8, 2017

When you think about the traditional clinical research opportunities, they are at the UCLAs and USCs of the world, the major research institutions. The industry has been talking about democratizing clinical research, so it's not just restricted to traditional clinic sites, and is not restricted by socioeconomic income and status.

Technology

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA). But in the end we selected David Lin , a superstar who did 4 years at the technology investment banking firm Montgomery & Co and 4 years as Director of Strategy at the comparison shopping site PriceGrabber where he dealt with many operational issues.

Startup

socalTECH

OCTOBER 8, 2008

We spoke with the two founders of the firm, Rob Angarita and Aaron Hawkey , about what the site is all about, and the interesting way in which they connected with their angel investor. I was an electrical engineer, and had a tough time at UCLA getting access to resources I needed. First off, tell us what Cramster is all about?

Study

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. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. The poor guy. What a bad $200M decision.

CTO Coach

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 20, 2007

Some events, like a recent Tech Coast Angel event at UCLA are really worth it. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta. 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.

CTO Coach

SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Of course, you should monitor social media such as Twitter, the social news sites, Facebook, etc. The Startonomics conference at UCLA Anderson business school, hosted by DealMaker Media, was a great event for the talks as well as the networking. Lou is a friend and colleague from UCLA Anderson. Tell Rod about the LA CTO Forum.

Product

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Materials is as well, and I spend lots of time at UCLA, and Caltech looking at interesting materials. They're now touching 14 million people through social, they've got 60 million pieces of metadata on the site, and they're going out and getting deals with studios, game publishers, with networks, with sports teams and sports leagues.

Redpoint

socalTECH

MARCH 26, 2014

We worked on all kinds of projects, including an online auction site for real estate, kiosks for airports, and music. We went to college together at UCLA, and he was one of the early guys at Scour. We were small, and had about ten engineers, providing customer solutions for businesses in Southern California.

Startup

LATechDigest

MAY 9, 2016

FUTURIZEX Launched at UCLA. Josh from @FWD_us discusses tools to help activate communities for voter turnout pic.twitter.com/a0DPgQCUHz. — LATech Digest (@LATechDigest) May 4, 2016. futurizetransit panel talking the future(s) of personal, mass, and commercial transit pic.twitter.com/NsiIMIY0oS.

Digital Hollywood

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

philosophie has worked with some of the world’s biggest names: Google, Nissan, Nintendo, UCLA, and more. By using SteelHouse, ecommerce sites can use live data to instantly respond to a customer’s wants and needs for stronger transaction values, increased conversion rates, and an overall better customer experience.

Startup

socalTECH

OCTOBER 2, 2015

What we set up to do on the site was to set everything up in advance, so if you wanted to go to a specific restaurant, all you do is post a restaurant date and time and see if any girl is interested. Avi Kahan: I went to UCLA where I got my JD. I had gone on dating sites, I was on Jdate awhile back ,and ran into similar problems.

Mobile

Tech.Co

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

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. LinkedIn is by far the world’s largest professional network with more than 380 million members in over 200 countries and territories. If you’re a doctor, head over to Doximity.

Education

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Many thanks to everyone who participated in last night’s Spotlight: LA Tech at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

Idealab

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Many thanks to everyone who participated in last night’s Spotlight: LA Tech at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. GumGum was founded in 2007 when a team of seasoned Internet entrepreneurs realized web site publishers were missing out on valuable revenue by not monetizing their image-based content.

Idealab