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Why Solving Big Food & Healthcare Problems Will Yield Spectacular Companies

Both Sides of the Table

We have have been funding agriculture technologies, water conservation, wireless electricity, aquaponics and so forth in addition to our standard investment themes in software, data, video and retail innovation. We are predisposed to backing founders who solve problems in which they have personal knowledge that is authentic.

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The Truth Behind Display Advertising: Adomic's Quest For Transparency

socalTECH

We had been building technology around a publisher interface, and starting seeing the same things from customers, who wanted to understand what was happening on their site, what their competition was doing, and what advertisers were doing. We decided to build technology to specifically address this problem. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Scott Ferreira, MySocialCloud

socalTECH

By the end of my sophomore year, I decided to go after this full time, and that's when I officially brought on a CTO, Shiv Prakash, and we went at it in the summer of 2011, and the rest is kind of history. Both have been great mentors ever since. Whta were you studying before the startup? Scott Ferreira: Yes, that's correct.

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How Amavitae Wants To Help Youth Find A Career They'll Love

socalTECH

Since then, I have worked extensively with mentoring youth, and helping them figure out what's possible in terms of careers. Then, we found the most amazing data scientist, who was initially an advisor, who was the founder of the AI Journal, and was at NASA, and taught at Stanford and USC.

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Moving Analytics | Sitting Kills, Moving Heals

Tech Zulu Event

The sensing technology, too, is unique to our solution. You recently conducted a pilot study. Can you share with us how the learnings of this pilot study impacted your strategy? Before we did the study we did a lot of research to see how best we could show the data. It is built out of 5 years of research at USC.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Some great content around the intersection of startups and being a Startup CTO in June this year. This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March The following are the top items based on social signals. Not so bad.

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