SoCal Tech Calendar

MAY 7, 2011

Friday, May 13, 2011 -- 2011 Entrepreneurs Conference. Welcome to the annual 2011 Entrepreneurs Conference at UCLA Anderson! Come meet, listen to and network with a variety of professional and student entrepreneurs at the largest entrepreneurial event on the UCLA campus.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

grant, to be given to a partnership including UCLA, UC Irvine, USC, and the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation (LAEDC), to connect university students with a network of venture coaches. blackstone launchpad student entrepreneurship program ucla southern california entrepreneur startup business' READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 13, 2011

Jonathan Lehmann: I was awarded the Larry Wolfen Entrepreneurial Spirit Award at UCLA, after getting amazing coaching from Matt Ridenour in our business plan development class. I developed the idea over the summer, articulated the vision, drew out the site, and then teamed up with other students at UCLA and started developing KarmaGoat.

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APRIL 30, 2012

NanoH2O, whose technology is based on research originally developed at UCLA, uses thin-film nanocomposite membrane technology for seawater desalination. NanoH2O is led by serial entrepreneur Jeff Green. NanoH2O said it has now raised $75M in equity, and more than $100M total in equity and debt.

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MAY 1, 2010

Friday, May 7, 2010 -- UCLA Entrepreneurs Conference. Now in its 25th year, this conference is UCLA Anderson's largest and highest-profile student-organized event. The Sky is No Limit" embraces the concept that even in an uncertain business environment, there is always room for the next great idea. See [link] (more).

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 10, 2012

This weekend UCLA has put together 48hr Startup and TechZulu will be there to bring you all the final startup presentations live. UCLA 48hr Startup brings together people with technical, design or business background to share ideas, form teams, build products and launch startups. The top team receives prizes.

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UCLA Startup Ideas Mentor 87

L.A. Business Journal

AUGUST 20, 2018

Founders Bootcamp is a venture studio focused solely on high school entrepreneurs and run out of the UCLA Anderson School of Management’s Cross-Campus space. Santa Monica-based Trill Project, founded by four high-schoolers who want to make social media safer, received on Aug.

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

Fellowship Program to connect the city's many new graduates with local businesses and entrepreneurs, and new efforts to help entrepreneurs find resources like accelerators, commercial real estate, and more. What's the best way to encourage development of the technology industry in Los Angeles?

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. On the one hand, an entrepreneur should not be overly paranoid and should know the ropes that VCs and other professional investors generally will not sign NDAs to see the concept or a prototype--and even if they did, it would not provide much protection.

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OCTOBER 5, 2011

To understand how one local company is making that transition, we talked with Los Angeles-based All About Addiction (www.allaboutaddiction.com), a company that grew out of Adi Jaffe's work at UCLA as a trained psychologist. Adi Jaffe: I'm a UCLA addiction trained psychologist, specializing in addiction. Adi Jaffe: It is tough.

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APRIL 12, 2010

Wednesday, April 14, 2010 -- Practical Advice for Entrepreneurs and Start-ups. Society of Postdoctoral Scholars at UCLA. Information about the Tech Coast Angels Mentorship Program. See [link] (more).

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

His startup, Culver City-based Hyphos , just launched an early beta access at UCLA--his alma mater, and that of a number of his co-founders--this week, so we thought we'd learn more about what drove him to quit his job, and start the company. We noticed you have lots of UCLA folks involved in the business--what's the link to UCLA?

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UCLA Culver City Startup Social Network 187

Berkonomics

APRIL 20, 2017

Leonard Kleinrock and a few of his UCLA computer lab students worked to send the first several text characters from UCLA to Stanford in 1969 over a direct line established for the test. How many entrepreneurs used that new Internet infrastructure to create an expansive vision of what could be?

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Artificial Inteligence UCLA Web Patents 256

Eric Greenspan

MAY 19, 2015

Years ago I began doing a presentation called Think Big for area high schools and colleges which included The Ten Commandments for Entrepreneurs. Since, I’ve presented at USC Marshall School of Business and UCLA Anderson School for 8 years consecutively, and countless times at other universities and colleges. Trust your gut.

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

According to Pasadena-based green marketplace firm OnGreen , the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), UC Los Angeles (UCLA), and University of Southern California (USC) scored a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to help foster student entrepreneurs via a business plan competition run by the group called First Look West.

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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.

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APRIL 9, 2009

Panel" Scripped.com and the UCLA Anderson School of Management Entrepreneurs Association. Students from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and UCLA Film School will be present. Other LA-Area media entrepreneurs will also be invited to the event. Wednesday, April 15, 2009 -- "Hollywood 2.0

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Are you an entrepreneur hoping to startup a company in the Los Angeles area? Southern California apparently has no shortage of investors, entrepreneurs, and others eager to help budding entrepreneurs. Howard Marks: We're a startup accelerator, which will help entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days.

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CTO Coach Startup Mentor Activision 194

Eric Greenspan

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

First, my thanks to Tim Draper for allowing me to use his song in my entrepreneur presentations at UCLA, Anderson School of Business and USC, Marshall School of Business. This song is the heart of soul of many entrepreneurs like me and I love sharing it. Anyone this rich must have lied. Chorus: He is the Riskmaster.

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Draper USC UCLA Press 169

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APRIL 17, 2012

World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. Founder Collective – If you were an early-stage startup and wanted to be funded by entrepreneurs who had walked in your shoes before, you wouldn’t have to stretch the imagination far to think of what “Founder Collective” is meant to stand for. downtown LA].

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

We asked the same four questions of a variety of top technology entrepreneurs, investors, and others, to hear what they're thinking about, and are sharing it here over the next week. We launched a Digital LA - Women series with four panels starring female founders, entrepreneurs, developers and PR, which will also continue into the new year.

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Dollar Shave Club Technical Review Santa Monica Southern California 272

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FEBRUARY 14, 2011

Mike Napoli: Actually, we are seeing entrepreneurs. Mike Napoli: I think it was the entrepreneur. But, the entrepreneur really understood the space, had extreme passion, and understood the challenge he was going to undertake. We've heard some entrepreneurs who have had some difficulty figuring out how to work with angels.

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Tech Coast Angels Technical Review Angel Southern California 231

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 7, 2013

UCLA’s EA fast-pitch Conference is being held at UCLA tomorrow, with fast-pitch Semi Finals and the Final Round. Robert Jadon, Director of Startup UCLA. Every person listed above is an acknowledged and distinguished investment professional and entrepreneur. and Matt Richter-Sand, founder of N/X Fitness.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 31, 2014

It isn’t the biggest secret that the University of Southern California (USC) Trojans and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Bruins aren’t the best of friends, especially on the football field. Cent (2 nd place Tech), a company from UCLA that allows easy use of crypto currencies.

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TechCrunch LA

MARCH 22, 2018

Founded by Steve Poizner last year to accelerate the growth of a startup entrepreneurial ecosystem in Southern California, The Alliance is building a network of investors, entrepreneurs and universities to provide ballast in the south to the dominance of the Northern California tech industry.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

I became an entrepreneur because I had to. It was about the earliest days of our life together when we moved to Westwood so I could attend UCLA. Like my eventual experience as an entrepreneur, we had to persevere. By Frank Peters. My life in Corporate America wasn’t going so well. We had to make a go of it.”

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Startup Software Review UCLA Sales 204

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JULY 22, 2011

NextGen Hollywood hosted at UCLA will focus on themes of Hollywood and Technology. NextGen Hollywood brings together current rockstar and aspiring entrepreneurs, technologists, producers, and actors. Join us for a full day in Los Angeles at UCLA to learn from the very best! Thursday, July 28, 2011 -- NEXTGEN 2011.

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MARCH 26, 2018

The Alliance says it is holding two events--one in Silicon Valley at the Computer History Museum, and another at UCLA--which will feature Southern California "thought-leaders" and technology and life sciences innovators, to try to connect them with investors and serial entrepreneurs from around the state and country.

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Southern California Study Cornerstone OnDemand SoCal 149

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MARCH 17, 2010

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. Entrepreneurs in LA spend a lot of time commuting up to the Valley. My biggest message is that for most this fear is overrated.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

One of the biggest complaints that local entrepreneurs have with Los Angeles has been a dearth of local sources of venture capital. I tend to invest in seasoned entrepreneurs or those who have the right experience in the particular industry they are in. What's the best way to approach you as an entrepreneur?

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Funding Startup Invest Commerce 253

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JANUARY 31, 2010

This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. Have a “Plan B&# – the show must go on – As was evidenced at the UCLA event and at many, many events I’ve been to – there are times when you have technical difficulties. I can then change my focus based on the results.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

An example of that is the UCLA flood. So, he launched Watsup, and the first thing it showed was a highlight of the UCLA flooding. tilofy location data science computer bigdata parsing filtering interview startup entrepreneur southern california' He just new something was going on. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 28, 2010

Finding the best jobs takes a lot of commitment to taking many different networking meetings with executives, recruiters, entrepreneurs, VC’s, investment bankers, etc. If she’s not up for transferring to UCLA – that’s fine. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Start-up Advice Startup Advice. Lots of reasons.

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JANUARY 5, 2009

Entrepreneur Jason Calacanis will discuss the state of the current economy, and what startups can do to survive the current downturn at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Wednesday, January 7, 2009 -- Startup Survival Guide. Email contact@scripped.com.

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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?

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UCLA Technical Review El Monte Startup 159

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

-The Scott Sanfilippo Interview Media Optimization Firms Are Red Hot In Southern California in 2009 Proliferate - Aggregate - Integrate Startups Uncensored #4 - “Finding and Working with Partners” SoCal VC’s absent from Forbes Midas List Top Five Best Uses of an Entrepreneur's Legal Dollars What Data Crunchers Did for Obama An Evaluation of Web Strategy (..)

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JANUARY 15, 2019

Thursday, January 17, 2019 -- CES 2019 at UCLA Anderson. This event aims to bring successful entrepreneurs and executives and a glimpse off the latest innovations and their potential impact. Technology based disruptions are affecting almost every sector today including transportation, healthcare, financial services and retail.

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