socalTECH

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Los Angeles has 8 percent of all the "unicorn" companies globally, according to a new study released Wednesday by the University of Southern California's Marshall School of Business. The school said the study companies as a unicorn if they exceeded a value of $1 billion during any month between January 2014 and the end of 2015.

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses. A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. What's keeping you up at night?

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2017

Our interview today is with Alan Horsager , the CEO of Pasadena-based Episona (www.episona.com), an angel backed startup which has already developed and has been offering up an epigenetic test for male fertility. We've translated that into a screening test, which started offering out in October of last year.

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socalTECH

JULY 29, 2016

Krisztina �Z� Holly , founder of MAKE IT IN LA (www.makeitinla.org), found out that�in addition to both the entertainment industry and technology industry, it's actually one of the biggest manufacturing centers in the country. There is a really an opportunity to support that sector, which usually gets overshadowed by technology and Hollywood.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

How do you keep up with everything that''s happening with your favorite interests, brands, and personalities on your mobile phone? We caught up with CEO Phil Kelly to better understand what the company is working on. How did the company start? Phil Kelly: I started the company early last year. Or, you can go to Yapert.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 11, 2017

In the startup world, one of the most difficult journeys to market is by companies who are taking basic scientific advances and technologies originally developed at universities, and taking them all the way to use in the commercial world. So explain where you are now with the taking your technology to market?

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socalTECH

MAY 25, 2012

If you were a student in college, working on a startup idea, what would spur you to drop your education plans, and go full time on your startup? We understand you were in school when you started this? I started playing around with a similar idea in my freshman year. Whta were you studying before the startup?

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

We just graduated, and wrapped up a round of $750,000, with a bunch of great folks from both up north and here. Those investors included a company called Paradigm, which is a big talent agency, Howard Lindzon in San Diego, and up north Greylock and Adam Nash. As we did that, the industry and research started to grow around us.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 26, 2016

Where did the technology come from? Lior Elazary: We started at USC, working on various robotics related products. After USC, I wanted to do a startup robotics company, and looked at various parts of the market to figure out which are right for a robotics solution. So we developed our core technology around that.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 29, 2017

During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. We also started offering Factory Tour Workshops to entrepreneurs, with nearly 100 applying for the pilots. in August.

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socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

For this morning's interview, we thought we'd catch up with two of the co-founders of Marina Del Rey-based Telesign (www.telesign.com), Ryan Disraeli and Stacy Stubblefield. How did the company start? Stacy Stubblefield: We actually started out of an incubator, based out of Beverly Hills. What were you doing before?

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

SoCal startup Moving Analytics is tackling this global problem. Tell us about your startup Moving Analytics and your app Movn. HV: Our current focus is helping people get up and move more, and that’s why we created Movn. So should we be standing up right now? The sensing technology, too, is unique to our solution.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Brandon Hance , Founder and CEO of Los Angeles based GoodThreads , went through college as a student athlete playing football for USC while studying business. Soon into college he realized that a career as a professional athlete is not what he wanted and instead quickly caught the entrepreneur/startup bug. GoodThreads Is Born.

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socalTECH

MAY 23, 2017

Jonathan, who was Founding CEO and President of AdColony (which sold to Opera for $350 Million in June of 2014), also told us why he got back in the startup game, even though he could be just sitting on a beach in Bali after his prior success. No one has ever been able to execute on that from a technology standpoint before.

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socalTECH

APRIL 29, 2014

We caught up with one of the local teams competing in that competition, VOXearch (www.voxearch.com), to learn more about the prize as well as their specific approach to the competition. Mike Outmesguine: We''re one of about thirty teams left in the challenge, out of more than 300 that signed up last August.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 19, 2017

To help fix that, the startup has created a mobile app to guide people through their strengths, interests, key skills, and more to guide them along the way to a career they'll love. How did this start? Deborah Ramo: The group of us who started the company are all very interested in solving problems. Look for ways to move up?

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 2, 2011

Entrepreneurship : Through working with their mentors, each team acted as a startup, conducting market research for their pitch presentations. The evening was completed with a speech from the Keynote speaker, Lucy Hood , executive director of USC’s Institution for Communication Technology Management. Find a hero.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but in an industry where output is the goal, things start to look scarily homogeneous when everyone relies on the same tools, sounds, sync buttons, and formula for success. However, defining rubbish is a tricky thing when you’re talking about creative work. Thanks for joining us Roland.

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