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JUNE 8, 2014

The basic components are obvious: talented founders, great engineers, angel money, venture capital, access to larger corporates (for business, funding & talent), great education / research (for IP breakthroughs) and a sufficient ecosystem of mentors, advisors, executive coaches and mavens. What Does a City Need to Compete?

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Xconomy

AUGUST 30, 2016

Hylton was previously the executive vice president of strategy and research at Brain Corp., in 2012, Hylton led a team that developed BrainOS, software technology designed to enable robotic systems to adapt to their environments and learn from humans. After joining Brain Corp. Henrik’s expertise is more in academics,” Hylton said.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 2, 2014

It took a while to do market research, but we ended up starting an app for law. It occurred to us that a startup company with limited funding is not going to pay $5000 upfront, and that we would have loved to know the prices up front and not have to go through the same eight conversations eight times.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Kevin joined Upfront in 2012 as an Associate. We generally look for associates who are deeply quantitative, have great research & analytical skills and often have the tool kit for framing and making complex decisions. Watching him develop over the past 4.5

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

HIGHEST DEGREE OBTAINED BY AMERICA'S 400 RICHEST PEOPLE Source: Forbes Magazine, Jan 2012. According to a January 2012 Forbes article, nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. When one considers the 400 richest people on the entire planet, the percentage of non-college graduates doubles.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies.

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socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2019

We build look-alike audiences for businesses, based on University of Pennsylvania research. That's when I started my first company, ScaleFunder, which we spun out of the UC California system in 2012. We received venture funding from Comcast Ventures and Crosscut. They are two groups, tackling this through two different ways.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In three years, Vertex went from having a billion-dollar hepatitis C business to zero—abandoning the research completely. Then it exited HCV research entirely. “It With what Leiden (pictured) now calls “hubris” and “blindness,” Vertex failed to react quickly enough. Its own hepatitis C drug was crushed.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 19, 2016

The healthcare tools of the future often start as research projects in academic medical centers, but they may not break out into widespread clinical practice until some sort of logjam gives way to make them workable and affordable. Up until now, these scans have been used only at Stanford and nine other medical research centers.

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Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

A new startup Meritful, out of Michigan Univeristy and accelerated and funded through Ann Arbor SPARK has launched into public beta to unite both students and mentors or even teachers. Ann Arbor SPARK Accelerated. Meritful is a professional network for students and mentors. Online Evaluation For Placement. They add yet another study.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2012

There is no substitute for market research, written by domain experts, to supplement your informal poll of friends and family. In reality, investors fund people, not ideas. A major resource is cash funding, but other resources, such as industry contacts and access to marketing channels may be more important for certain products.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 19, 2012

Due to the combination of these factors, marketers began to more heavily fund digital platforms. But subsequent statistics have also shown that “online coupon access [has] increased 92 percent and redemption of Internet deals [has] leapt up 360 percent;” with more growth predicted in 2012. Getting Mobile-Ready.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Our challenge is to help start, fund, improve, and grow 1000 companies in five years. Amir Banifatemi: Our first class will be in winter, starting in 2012, most likely in January. In terms of technology presence, there are some strong gaming developers, and semiconductors and research is strong.

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Xconomy

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Illumina fended off a hostile takeover bid from Roche back in February 2012, and over the next three years shares went from about $51 apiece to as high as $219.30 FUNDING ROUNDS. in July 2015. But sagging sales have sent Illumina far down from last year’s peak. Here’s more from CNBC. THIS WEEK IN SICKLE CELL…. million in an IPO.

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Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

based startup CoFoundersLab has addressed this issue by taking the guesswork out of matchmaking by introducing scientific methods, deep research and algorithms that have proven to lead to successful matches. s first accelerator called The Fort and raised VC funding. By November 2012, CoFoundersLab Meetups had expanded to 20 cities.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2011

It brings together entrepreneurs, CTOs, marketers, developers, technologists, researchers, geographers, startups and business developers. The conference coincided with the news that three-year-old start-up is looking to raise funds at a price that valuates Foursquare at about $500 million. Both Where 2.0 The Where 2.0

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 26, 2011

It brings together entrepreneurs, CTOs, marketers, developers, technologists, researchers, geographers, startups and business developers. The conference coincided with the news that three-year-old start-up is looking to raise funds at a price that valuates Foursquare at about $500 million. Both Where 2.0 The Where 2.0

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

This was in direct response to the implosion of the tech bubble and the fall out of Enron, Worldcom and the questionable research produced by the investment banks in general and Blodget in particular. In 2003 Blodget struck a civil settlement deal with the SEC that cost him $4 million. Blodget also agreed never to work on the Street again.

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From the Venture Trenches

APRIL 19, 2013

This was in direct response to the implosion of the tech bubble and the fall out of Enron, Worldcom and the questionable research produced by the investment banks in general and Blodget in particular. In 2003 Blodget struck a civil settlement deal with the SEC that cost him $4 million. Blodget also agreed never to work on the Street again.

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InfoChachkie

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

HandUp collects the money and then provides it directly to the landlord, ensuring that the donors’ funds are properly deployed. I first got the idea on a cold night during the winter of 2012 in San Francisco when I walked passed a homeless woman sleeping on the street. HandUp was an opportunity to combine both.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 18, 2009

We have a long relationship with them, and have been funding research in their labs, and have a continuing relationship. Our company was privately funded by our partners. Base on all of this, we set up Solarmer, recruited the research and development staff, and are now in the last stage of pilot line manufacturing.

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2012

.” Founded in 2007 by Ravishanker and a small group of computer science graduates from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Southern California and Harvard University, CallFire has achieved just under $10 million in sales, is profitable and has built that substantial user base–all without venture funding.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 14, 2014

It’s why the first company I ever invested in as a VC – Invoca – just announced a $20 million funding by Accel Partners. Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). 63% of all consumers looking to buy financial services now research online but only 33% actually buy online. THE FULL STORY.

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Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 28, 2012

We started building LoveIt at the beginning of 2012. We did some informal research toward the end of 2011 when the “pinning” phenomenon emerged because we found it very interesting. Any funding yet, if yes how much and by who? We’ve secured $6M in Series A funding from Juvo Capital and PG Ventures. When was it launched?

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SoCal Delicious

OCTOBER 8, 2012

October 5, 2012. Venture capitalist and hedge-fund manager Peter Thiel—PayPals co-founder and Facebook s. Venices median home price in the first eight months of 2012 broke the $1 million barrier, rising to $1,012,000 from $899,000 in the first eight months of 2011. 2012, compared with the same period in 2011.

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SoCal Delicious

MAY 6, 2012

63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of By mario on May 2, 2012 in Features , grid. Goodreads raised a Series A round of funding from True Ventures in the summer of 2009. © 2012 IdeaMensch. Idea Mensch. where entrepreneurs share their stories. Subscribe to RSS. Subscribe to RSS. Thank you eMinutes. Publishing.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 28, 2012

August 24, 2012 10:24 AM. MYTH 2: Silicon Valley companies will always have the best shot at funding. Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs was named one of Fortune’s 10 Brilliant Technology Visionaries for 2012 alongside the great and powerful Oz’s of Apple and Google. MYTH 4: Research institutions are stronger in NorCal.

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