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JANUARY 21, 2011

The Presidential Awards for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring are given each year to individuals who have mentored students studying science or engineering. Mataric's work was featured last year at the TEDxUSC event, which was organized by USC's Stevens Insitute of Technology.

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JULY 26, 2010

A study released Friday by the Center for the Digital Future, at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, finds that zero percent of Twitter users polled in the study would pay for Twitter. The findings came as part of the Center's 2010 Digital Future Project, a long term study of Internet users and non-users.

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MARCH 26, 2013

USC has just thrown their hat into the ring of the flurry of startup activity happening in SoCal with the introduction of a new accelerator, the Viterbi Startup Garage. The post USC Adds New Accelerator “Viterbi Startup Garage” to Silicon Beach appeared first on TechZulu. It is getting hot in here.

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MARCH 25, 2013

As I began prepping for my talk at USC Marshall School of Business about the recent failure of my 12 year old company Make It Work, I cannot deny many memories were dug up. In 2010, after my 5th talk, USC Marshall School produced a case study about the customer centricity offered by the company. Then, something else happened.

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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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JUNE 29, 2016

The new MAKE IT IN LA effort recently published a study , which found that manufacturing has more employment in LA than the creative industry; and that there is excess capacity in Los Angeles for manufacturing, with lots of potential to tie that manufacturing expertise with LA's new startup culture. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 29, 2011

The University of Southern California and the New York Times said this week that the two are partnering to provide online, continuing education courses this fall, across seven different study areas.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2009

The USC Stevens Institute for Innovation , the effort of the University of Southern California to foster innovation within its campus and the community, has been turning an eye to how to more effectively spin out academic efforts into companies.

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AUGUST 16, 2011

Henry is a startup investor and advisor, and also has served as an Assistant Professor at USC's Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies in the Marshall School of Business. Barber had served as Southern California Chapter President from February 2010 through July 2011. READ MORE>>.

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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. It's really hard to do the study which requires you to drive weekly to a clinic, find parking, deal with traffic, and wait in a waiting room. We see you have the backing of Google?

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MARCH 3, 2018

He went to college to study art and design. But 10 years ago with the financial crisis he could no longer afford to study. She was recently graduated from Cal State, Los Angeles and works at USC. He suggested León to me because they were both speakers at the commencement speech at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism.

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JULY 22, 2014

We spent a morning talking about the transition from being an engineer to being an entrepreneur, having the distinction of being the first digital health startup to emerge from USC Viterbi’s Startup Garage , and drilling down to what really matters in all of our entrepreneurial efforts – listening to consumers. This was run out of USC?

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC. The site started as a concept that Jeff Nobbs, my co-founder, and myself developed while we were operating a cash-back and coupon website while we were attending USC. Noah Auerhahn: We just had too much free time at USC. How did the company start?

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MAY 8, 2022

In a famous Harvard study of 212 new ventures a few years ago, USC professor Noam Wasserman found that half the founders were no longer at the helm after three years, and over time 80% were forced out. The dilemma is that these goals are usually mutually exclusive. That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Dr. Kathleen Allen of the USC Lloyd Greif Center for Entrepreneurial Studies will discuss entrepreneurial leadership. Wednesday, February 24, 2010 -- Start your own company? Like a Fox! Buenaventura IEEE-EMBS. Dr. Allen will give details on how entrepreneurship is much more than merely starting a new business.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

We have done both retrospective proof-of-concept and also prospective studies to prove out the concept, which is based on probably 100 papers worth of articles published in scientific journals. I also have a visiting appointment at USC. There's a lot of foundational science here. How did you decide to turn this into a company?

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SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. My company and I are a perfect case study for the Tech Council affiliation. CTM and USC, staff of Citrix Online, TCA members, and now you! What motivates you to do that?

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MAY 11, 2011

I studied cognitive science, the study of the brain, as an undergraduate. An example of that is we have built in daily tips, which we have put together after going through 17,000 medical studies on what to do to reduce early memory loss. We actually wrote the business plan in a business plan class at USC.

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JULY 29, 2016

We recently did a study, and we found that there were nearly 3,000 new businesses created in manufacturing here in the last three years. We did the study to understand the ecosystem, which led us to launch this nonprofit with the major. In a similar way, I played that role in academia, at both USC and MIT.

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AUGUST 26, 2016

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. Where did the technology come from? So where are you now in deployment?

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MAY 25, 2012

Fortunately, USC, where I was a student as, is really good about that, and gave me two years off as a leave of absence, and happily gave that to me. Whta were you studying before the startup? Scott Ferreira: I was actually studying architecture. It was pretty much our do or die moment. That's very much what we've been doing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2019

In a famous Harvard study of 212 new ventures a few years ago, USC professor Noam Wasserman found that half the founders were no longer at the helm after three years, and over time 80% were forced out. The dilemma is that these goals are usually mutually exclusive. That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

Yet, in another study, it still has difficulties understanding Homer Simpson's actions. Z is known for curating and hosting the first ever TEDx (TEDxUSC) in 2009 and founding two innovation centers at MIT and USC. In automation news, Google's Deep Mind AI taught itself to walk last summer. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 26, 2012

We met at USC, and we had traveled a lot with study abroad programs. Aigerim Duiseneyeva: We met with Idealab through a USC Marshall competition. What's the story on how the company came about? Shana Zheng: Traveling is a passion of mine and Aigerim. We met in college, and we both traveled a lot.

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AUGUST 2, 2013

There is a lot of searching and sorting just to find out, for example, what the USC Trojans or Tesla Motors might be doing. We really started to study the current generation of smartphones and what people do with them. That''s where the company started from. Phil Kelly: It''s kind of interesting.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

Recently, USC's film school started a comedic content major. Before, no one was teaching you how to look at comedic content, how to study it, and how to replicate it. So, we started to create ways of categorizing and classifying comedic content. As we did that, the industry and research started to grow around us.

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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.

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MAY 2, 2011

The evening was completed with a speech from the Keynote speaker, Lucy Hood , executive director of USC’s Institution for Communication Technology Management. Of course, they were also given plenty of good ideas and suggestions to implement in, not just from the judges, but from the audience as well. Don’t take no for an answer.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

Then, we found the most amazing data scientist, who was initially an advisor, who was the founder of the AI Journal, and was at NASA, and taught at Stanford and USC. Fifty percent of college graduates wish they studied something else after they graduate, and 42 percent of employers don't think those students are workforce ready.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy and Darren, our other co-founder who's not here right now, actually graduated from USC. Ryan Disraeli: I was studying business with an emphasis on entrepreneurship. What were you doing before? Ryan Disraeli: I was actually in school at the time. What were you majoring in? I was about 19 at the time.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 19, 2017

In a famous Harvard study of 212 new ventures a few years ago, USC professor Noam Wasserman found that half the founders were no longer at the helm after three years, and over time 80% were forced out. The dilemma is that these goals are usually mutually exclusive. That’s not an attractive statistic if you crave control and power.

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JANUARY 11, 2017

One of the companies on that journey is Los Angeles-based Carbonics (www.carbonics.com), which is taking technology developed in the labs of USC and UCLA, and bringing it to use in the wireless semiconductor market. The company's CEO, Kos Galatsis , spoke to us a few years ago at the very beginning of their journey.

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APRIL 29, 2014

Our first project was 3D imaging of the heart, so that doctors could study a pacemaker and defibrillator recall from the Alfred E. After two years, Alfred Mann decided to give money to USC for the effort instead. I''ve worked in the movie business, movie, audio, imaging. Mann implantable device area.

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JULY 28, 2012

Before the pitches started, I ran into a fellow Trojan I knew who just graduated from USC, Nathan Doctor. Two of the developers that were going to join me decided to continue on with their idea since they already had a team. Good move, considering they won 3 rd Place). If you can’t beat them, join them! Pivot, Pivot, Pivot!

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MAY 23, 2017

He was just a friend from church, and we actually connected at church through bible study. That's something I am very passionate about, supporting the So Cal ecosystem, which is why we hire heavily from USC, UCLA, Caltech, Occidental, and the other local schools. What's the biggest challenge for you?

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NOVEMBER 3, 2013

If you look back, the original founder, Stephan studied at the USC Foreign School of Music, so there is a long standing connection with LA. One of our guys does a lot of work with upcoming Hollywood film composers, you can see in our ‘ about ’ section, Gerrit Wunder, he does work at the moment for Hans Zimmerman and so on.

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