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How NinjaThat Taps The Power Of Students For Business Tasks, with Atif Siddiqi

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Atif Siddiqi: We've been operating in the college space since 2005. I went to USC, and was doing grad school and my MBA when I met Atish. Plus, what made it interesting, is with the market we're serving, we're trying to focus on metropolitan areas with a high density of schools. Where'd you get the idea for the company?

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Interview with Brett Crosby and Brew Johnson, PeerStreet

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I grew up in Thousand Oaks, went to USC, and we met each other way back in the 90's. I went and started a company called Urchin Software Corporation, which was an early player in Web Analytics, which was acquired by Google in 2005, and then I was at Google for just shy of a decade. Brett and I both grew up in Southern California.

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

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My other, non-marketable skill included philosophy. Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference. As they improve their focus and memory, and as we find they become happier and self confident, those people actually do the marketing for us. This is my third company.

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Social Networking and Business Value

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Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He has been an instructor in UCLA Extension for 9 years, and is a frequent contributor to various online publications.

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Interview with Sherry Gunther, Masher Media

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We spoke with Sherry Gunther, CEO and founder of the firm, earlier this week to get a better look at the company and the dynamics behind the virtual world market nowadays--as well as why Sherry decided to make the jump from the world of entertainment media to online. Sherry Gunther: That's been the advantage of a maturing market space.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. It was acquired by Experian in 2005 for $330M. It also was acquired by Experian in 2005.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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In a recent interview, Goldenberg stated that the online apparel market was a “bigger than $100 billion” business and that his company and others like it were poised to “take market share from traditional retailers”. Given Goldenberg’s Internet marketing prowess, I’m sure JustFab will continue to shape online retail for years to come.