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Tech and Entertainment Have a Home in Silicon Beach

Tech Zulu Event

The Los Angeles Business Journal recently reported data compiled by SoCalTech.com showing that “L.A. The real estate impact of this activity can probably be traced to the 2011 arrival of Google in the Frank Gehry-designed “binoculars” building on Main Street in Santa Monica. In some cases, these people can walk or bike to work.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers. Now she had an extra $50,000 to start building out her team. She focused on her customer.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Companies also use social networking sites in the hiring process, and increasingly, to do innovative advertising (such as the recent Jack in the Box campaign). Does advertising work in the social networking world? In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations.

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Interview with Gabe Grifoni, Rufus Labs

socalTECH

Our products are designed for use by warehouse workers, retail staff, employees in manufacturing plants, by airlines, any place where people are moving boxes, picking and placing, shipping products, or getting things ready for pickup. I actually spent a decade working in advertising and marketing. That's how we got our start.

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SoCal Heads to SXSWi | 2012 Panel Picking Guide

Tech Zulu Event

Design: Developing for a Consumerized Enterprise World (BetterWorks). Journalism: How to Talk to Your Audience Again. Badges & Beyond – Gamification and Mobile Apps (Mobile Roadie, Soundcloud). 7 Reasons the Cloud Makes Your Video Work Better. Digital Dailies: Reinventing Hollywood’s Workflow. Scaling thru Outsourcing.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 6.0 - the Rubicon Project: Internet Advertising

Frank Addante

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Internet Advertising ASP) Exit: $112M IPO and acquisition Lesson: Think big. Zondigo, Inc. Startup 3.0:

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Zenvoy: Connecting Business Users With One-On-One Connections, With Bill Webster

socalTECH

There are many people who are in design or engineering who live and die by referral business I started mocking up the idea. That really helped us figure out how to design the product. We are also white labeling the software, and letting them show their own advertisements. We figured this out with our first beta test.

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