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Silicon Beach at USC 2013 | Entrepreneurial Inspiration

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I wanted to connect LA’s incredible entrepreneurs with the larger business community and with the resources of USC.”. The second annual USC Silicon Beach event, hosted by the four professional schools at USC, featured a pitch competition and a conference filled with informational panels and interviews.

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

A day might include a discussion with a finance partner, an investor, a customer or a fusion partner. Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. Our new customer acquisition has grown and our costs have plummeted. Any thoughts on my post?

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Interview with Neal Pecchenino, Boxi: Turning Blank Trunks Into Moving Ads

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Neal Pecchenino , the founder and CEO of Boxi , while trying to advertise the brand of a company he was working for--how do you reach a lot of people with a branding campaign, affordably? Neal Pecchenino: We are the largest truck advertising company in the country. I had been at USC, at the Etnrepreneurship program.

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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. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition.

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Learning The Ropes Of Internet Video With Michael Tringe and CreatorUp

socalTECH

We also talk about creating things specifically for the web, how to distribute on the web, and how to build a revenue stream aside from advertising revenue. The amateur is probably our target customer, but a professional also looking to transition to digital would also be pretty interested in what we are doing. What's your background?

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CreatorUp Links You With Top Filmakers & YouTube Creators To Make Awesome Web Series

Tech Zulu Event

Mike Tringe earned his BA in History and Science from Harvard, and his MFA in Film Production from USC. He’s worked as an English and Film teacher at the American School of Tangier, and has also assistant taught film production at USC. Sara Akhteh received her BA in Film Theory from UCSC and her MFA from USC in Production.

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Interview with Jonathan Zweig, AppOnboard

socalTECH

Usually, it's someone with just curiosity about the app, and the advertisers will pay several dollars for that download, only to have the user just delete the app, without having ever played it or even gotten through a tutorial. What we do, is we build a full-fidelity demo for a customer. What's the biggest challenge for you?

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