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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

socalTECH

So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. Elizabeth Amini: I actually ran into him in 2005, when he was a keynote speaker at a conference. You don't need a CD, or hardware, it's completely web based. My other, non-marketable skill included philosophy.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He is known for being able to monetize the social web. Tony Karrer is the CEO/CTO of TechEmpower, a software, web, and eLearning development firm. He was raised and educated in London. in Computer Science.

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Interview with Brett Crosby and Brew Johnson, PeerStreet

socalTECH

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. There's lot of great stuff happening here.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

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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