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Entrepreneur of the Year - Marshall School of Business

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, October 30, 2008 -- USC Entrepreneur of the Year - Marshall School of Business. Email claudia.morataya@marshall.usc.edu. Richard Rosenblatt, Demand Media, shares his journey with a time for QandA.

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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

socalTECH

We got a relatively large client in 2008, after three years of chugging along, and that's when we knew that was the business we should be focusing on. Stacy and Darren, our other co-founder who's not here right now, actually graduated from USC. Telesign, slowly over the years, became the one that really took off.

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How TaskUs Is Powering LA's Technology Startup Boom

socalTECH

Customer care, obviously, is emails, phone calls, and customer service back office services. I had worked a year in investment banking, and Jasper was out of USC. In 2008, we started to throw around ideas, and eventually settled on this one. Before that, I was in New York, City. The two of us really wanted to be entrepreneurs.

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Mark Tapling On Language Weaver's Next Chapter

socalTECH

Having followed the firm since its early days as a spinout of USC, we thought we'd talk with CEO Mark Tapling to get the back story behind the acquisition, and where the firm is going form here. Mark Tapling: Starting in March of 2008, Language Weaver really embarked on a growth strategy. Mark, thanks for the time today.

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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. As of June 2008 Jason is now CEO and Founder of Mahalo, Inc. , He blogs here and tweets here.

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Please Help My Friend Colin Recover His Kidnapped Children #noorramsay

Both Sides of the Table

Colin moved back to his home town of Boston before I returned to the US and unfortunately he got divorced from his wife, an Egyptian national, in 2008. If you know any way to help (friends in government or any other ways you could recommend) please email me. My email address is my Twitter handle at Gmail.

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