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APRIL 4, 2013

We spoke with co-founder Brenton Sullivan about the company''s platform, and how it''s hoping to transform the athletic recruiting process. Brenton Sullivan: What we are is a private social network and platform for coaches to connect with each other, to exchange information on athletes. We think it''s really powerful in our platform.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? My degree is from USC in big data. As you probably know, Viterbi is the engineering school at USC. What drove your interest in this area?

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

USC’s Marshall School of Business and School of Cinematic Arts present Silicon Beach @USC : an event highlighting innovation, new ventures, partnerships and investment at the intersection of technology and digital content. Come join us for Silicon Beach @ USC! Silicon Beach @ USC. For a map and directions, click here.

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OCTOBER 28, 2013

Because the event was scheduled during Trojan Family Weekend, a weekend where parents and family from all over the nation come visit the USC campus, the event was filled with curious family members. It’s not about the money for us,” said Cosmo Scharf of Coursewiz , a college course-scheduling platform. “We

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

USC hosted its first Startup Weekend from September 23rd to 25th and it rocked! A mobile and web platform that lets our users give and receive text messaging advice in a anonymous social community. Overall it was a successful weekend and we are looking forward to having it at USC again. 70+ students. 8 business ideas.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. Tom Grasty: Essentially, we started off as a graduate school project at USC. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Planana is a reward platform that has perks like benefits, such as discounts to tickets to attendees who engage with their brands. Anna Sergeeva: After we raised a round of funding from the Tech Coast Angels and USC, we spent a few months really getting to know the events space. What kinds of sponsors would use this?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Image Metrics said it would merge Big Stag's avatar creation platform into its existing, real-time video animation technology. Big Stage--which was a spinout of technology developed at USC--allowed users to upload several photographs of themselves into software, which then automatically converted those photographs into a realistic avatar.

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JUNE 17, 2010

Los Angeles-based Alelo , the USC spinout which uses computer game technology to teach foreign languages, said this week that the firm has been awarded a contract from the Australian Defence Force (ADF). Alelo's games--which are based on a first person shooter platform--are being used by the U.S.

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JANUARY 23, 2013

They're using the ROC platform to have their events in all one place, and take their investing from 8 to 30 days, down from 90 days. Walter Grieves: We partnered with USC, UCLA, and Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, Anderson, Annenberg Center, we have an internship program. We're just a neutral platform for the community.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

However, for students at USC, UCLA, and Caltech, that just doesn''t exist. The second, which involves a lot of people, is building awareness at universities--notably, USC and UCLA. The third is a platform to connect everyone on, which is being provided by Internships.com, which is at techla.internships.com.

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APRIL 13, 2021

Dave told us a bit more about the Viterbi Startup Garage and several other associated efforts there at USC centered around the startup ecosystem. The Startup Garage is an incubator which gives preference to USC teams, or startups that are USC affiliated in some way, for example, alumni-led. What is Viterbi Startup Garage?

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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. On Sunday, March 2 nd at USC, these rivals took their battle to a new platform: startups.

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APRIL 24, 2019

He also attended USC's Viterbi School of Engineering as a Ph.D. According to Quleap, it is looking to make it platform available to scientists in industry and academia, who want to use advanced computing technology for drug and new chemical entity development and discovery.

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

Sunday, October 14, 2012 -- Code Camp - USC. This community driven event has become an international trend where peer groups of all platforms, programming languages and disciplines band together to bring content to the community. Los Angeles.NET Developers Group. Who is speaking at Code Camp?

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OCTOBER 10, 2012

Saturday, October 13, 2012 -- Code Camp - USC. This community driven event has become an international trend where peer groups of all platforms, programming languages and disciplines band together to bring content to the community. Los Angeles.NET Developers Group. Who is speaking at Code Camp?

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

Founded by Arjun Mehta, Shray Bansal, and Nigel Egrari, the company grew out of work the three men did while attending the USC Jimmy Iovine & Dr. Dre Academy for the Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation. . The company touts itself as the simplest way for artists to create online events for their fans.

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JUNE 23, 2014

The underlying Bitcoin platform will likely see other types of peer-to-peer applications as well which could ultimately transform the business landscape. Micah Winkelspecht, USC alumni and CEO of Bitvault. Business Events altcoins bitcoin cryptocurrency dogecoin litecoin NXT peercoin talkTECH USC'

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DECEMBER 9, 2015

According to GoPro, the link with UCLA is an extension of its university program--originally launched at USC in October --and also includes a deal with the NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. Recently, USC's film school started a comedic content major. So we've partnered and worked with technology partners, and built a technology company to develop applications for ourselves and third party platforms.

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JANUARY 16, 2015

in a venture funding round, to transform carbon nanomaterials research from UCLA and USC and bring it to market. What we are offering the marketplace, is a new technology platform that uses carbon nanomaterials to make chips. Kos Galatsis: I''m from UCLA, and the other startup professor is from USC. READ MORE>>.

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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. The University of Southern California is home to many innovative students and companies.

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APRIL 1, 2013

Mike Tringe earned his BA in History and Science from Harvard, and his MFA in Film Production from USC. He’s worked as an English and Film teacher at the American School of Tangier, and has also assistant taught film production at USC. Sara Akhteh received her BA in Film Theory from UCSC and her MFA from USC in Production.

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MARCH 14, 2011

My co-founder is Nasi Peretz, who is CTO of West Side Rentals, another LA company, and who also ran properties at USC for the business school and law school. We're building a platform for music, repurposing our existing product, and already have three music client venues, and expect we can grow into a much larger market than comedy.

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Tech Zulu Event

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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AUGUST 2, 2017

I also have a visiting appointment at USC. The two other co-founders, one at USC and the other at the University of Utah are professors at those universities. Alan Horsager: Andrew Smith, who is at USC and I knew each other, as we'd collaborated on some other academic projects together. Those are the two big things.

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MARCH 17, 2010

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so.

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MAY 15, 2009

an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. Dr. Karrer graduated from Loyola Marymount University (Valedictorian), then attended USC as a Tau Beta Pi fellow, one of the top 30 engineers in the nation, and received a M.S. Before that, he was VP, Client Strategy at Blast Radius. in Computer Science.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. Communications: Of course comms companies are springing up globally including WhatsApp, Line, KakaoTalk, WeChat and the dominant platforms of Facebook & Twitter. We see improvements in wireless transmission and in real-time programming languages.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. And despite what I keep hearing from others – these are not content “hit businesses&# they are “content production platforms&# that are producing scale like I’ve never seen and at a cost structure that is astounding.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. Each of these platforms represents a variety of “screens” to view from. People are not simply watching the TV anymore.

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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. The platform provides non-profits the ability to also create a basic storefront for supporters to purchase their merchandise or donate to the cause.

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MARCH 24, 2010

Brandon Hance: I was actually a student athlete, a quarterback at USC, and was on a couple of the national teams. They're the largest marketing platform in the music business, and we've signed on to be their exclusive ecommerce partner. What's your background, and how did you get into this?

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AUGUST 2, 2013

What we''re doing, is curating the most popular interests, brands, and entertainers, which comprise the interest in the social web, and putting in on one platform. There is a lot of searching and sorting just to find out, for example, what the USC Trojans or Tesla Motors might be doing. That''s where the company started from.

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MAY 2, 2013

We also did a company in Northern California, Weoutta, which is a consumer app for making future plans, which is built on top of a pretty robust data platform. I was just at USC yesterday, and they''re really focused on great things in science in engineering. What do you see in the technology area that made you want to focus there?

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Tech Zulu Event

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. Entrepreneurship : Through working with their mentors, each team acted as a startup, conducting market research for their pitch presentations.

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

Zak went to the Peter Stark Program at the USC Film School, which is a very prestigious program. He was independently working on a collaboration platform for writers, and eventually we all got on a phone together, and it clicked. Zak and I went to Claremont McKenna together, and have been friends for a long, long time.

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