Francisco Dao came up with the idea of letting 10 companies that weren’t selected for Twiistup to do a presentation the night before to a group of people and let the audience pick one company to win the final slot at Twiistup. I’ll put up the video when they post it on their website. Stories have starts, middles and ends.

This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons.&#. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I paid up for the diploma but can’t say that I saw better results. So back to MBAs. 

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quot;William Decker, Assistant Director of the Office of Technology Transfer and Intellectual Property Services of UCSD, said, "We're pleased that our office could assist in working with Neoprobe to bring an additional use of this technology to the public at-large." The compound is covered by U.S. quot; [ BusinessWire] MORE

entrepreneur August 6, 2008 I’ve been sitting in a few meetings lately where the dilemma of the local universities of getting technology developed there into industry has surfaced a few times: finding entrepreneurs. 8212; but there’s not a corresponding huge number of startups being created from those universities.

What's the story behind the company--I understand this started at UCSD? They got an NSF grant, and basically started up the original web site, as a video web site. Marc Friedmann: I was actually brought in about a year after they started. For people who haven't visited SciVee, what's the site about? Thanks!

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quot;The creation of Agensys exemplifies the creativity and drive of UCLAs faculty entrepreneurs," said Kathryn Atchison, UCLA vice provost for intellectual property and industry relations. Created with the free version of Terapad, ads can be removed from $14.15 Arie Belldegrun founded the biotechnology company Agensys Inc. ?

The SoCal Tech Group is dedicated to empowering the Southern California technical entrepreneur. UCLA, USC, UCSD, UCI, UCR, Cal Poly, Cal Tech are just a few of the esteemed universities in the area. There are scores of individuals working in Southern California industry or academics with little exposure to venture-backed startups.

I'll be speaking (yes, yours truly) on “Effective Networking for Entrepreneurs” at the GroundUP Business Group 's Tuesday, March 9th 7-8:30pm, at Zephyr Coffee House, 2419 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107. Attire ranged from t-shirts and jeans to button-up shirts with coats, with a handful of some funkier attire. Interesting?