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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

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That includes Notre Dame, Oregon, UCLA, and others. For example, we're the official mobile app of UCLA, even though behind the scenes is actually Hopscotch. We have what is called a mult-dimensional, segmentation engine, that helps them understand their fans on the platform, and provide advertisers with specifics.

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Unbucket: Planning Your Life With Friends, with Elliot Darvick

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For example, one of my favorite lists is "Adventures before leaving DC", which was a way for one of our users to organize the things they wanted to do in DC before moving to California. Brian has a deep background in programming and also a law degree from UCLA. What is Unbucket? He's got that rare combination of programming and law.

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

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The Internet thus far has been monetized by display, video, and in-text advertising — but the one place every user’s eye focuses on first are photos. He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S. from Carnegie Mellon University. The old media companies were resistant to change.

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Interview with Howard Marks, Start Engine

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Los Angeles is an amazing place, and we have fashion, e-commerce, advertising, games, media, entertainment companies which I think make Los Angeles a phenomenal place. We've been able to get a bunch of applications already through word of moth, from talks at different classes, and most recently at the UCLA Business School.

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Vision, School, & Work | Interview with Jim Farley CMO Ford Motors

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It’s a huge eco-system of automotive, tech, and regulations; and with anything industry-concept in nature, we understand the difficulty in giving concrete examples of projects in the pipeline. Facebook, mobile advertising agencies, even Pinterest and Twitter (though they’re not directly related to automotive).

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Interview with Wes Nichols, MarketShare

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For example, if you see a TV spot for Toyota, and then Google it, or you see a display ad on CNN and then open up a tab in your browser, talk about it on Facebook, or even walk into the dealership, we're able to quantify, very specifically, what combination of what kinds of media drove that sale and how that activity interacted with each other.

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

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Elizabeth Amini: My first company was in graphic design, and provide both graphics for the entertainment industry, but also buildling websites for UCLA and all kinds of places around science, astrophysics, and those types of departments. You also have a background as a scientist at JPL?

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