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Interview with Tom Grasty, Stroome

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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. It ran in April of 2008.

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

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So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. You don't need a CD, or hardware, it's completely web based. We actually wrote the business plan in a business plan class at USC. My other, non-marketable skill included philosophy. This is my third company.

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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

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Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. Stacy and Darren, our other co-founder who's not here right now, actually graduated from USC. Talk about Telesign and what you do?

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

He is known for being able to monetize the social web. Yammer was launched on stage at TechCrunch 50 on September 8, 2008 and won Best in Show. Tony Karrer is the CEO/CTO of TechEmpower, a software, web, and eLearning development firm. Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer & Strategic Creative at USA GROUP, INC.,

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Coincident.TV Is “CREATE”-ing Second Screen Transmedia Producers Out Of Everyone [Beta Invites]

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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. came to engineer and serial entrepreneur David Kaiser (Founder and CEO) in 2008 while surfing on his laptop while watching TV.

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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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Mark Tapling On Language Weaver's Next Chapter

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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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