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Survios president and co-founder Nathan Burba is joining us at TechCrunch Sessions: AR/VR

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Electronauts is an impressive title from the California VR studio that also developed the addictive first-person shooter, Raw Data. Before co-founding the company, President Nathan Burba served as the director of Project Holodeck, a USC project aimed at creating a full-body 360-degree VR experience.

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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

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Noah Auerhahn: ExtraBux helps consumers get the lowest prices online, by integrating online discounts into a comparison shopping engine. Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC. Noah Auerhahn: We just had too much free time at USC. We then went out to raise money, and got started on development.

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Dreaming of Mars, the startup Relativity Space gets its first launch site on Earth

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The two had met in college at USC in their jet propulsion lab. Relativity prices its dedicated missions at $10 million, and $11,000 per kilogram to achieve Sun-synchronous orbit. All of this activity helps the company in another segment of its business: licensing and selling the manufacturing technology it has developed.

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

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Aspiring creators learn by connecting with top web filmmakers and YouTubers on a topics specific to the web: developing a web series, producing web series, writing for genres like comedy & sci-fi, directing, editing, camera, Kickstarter funding, show hosting, distribution, and marketing. What inspired you? Take us through your features?

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Interview with Lior Elazary, Invia Robotics

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Lior Elazary: We started at USC, working on various robotics related products. After USC, I wanted to do a startup robotics company, and looked at various parts of the market to figure out which are right for a robotics solution. So we developed our core technology around that. Where did the technology come from?

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Tech and Entertainment Have a Home in Silicon Beach

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According to the Wall Street Journal , these included Ooma founder Andrew Frame purchasing in Bel Air, and Facebook head of market development Matt Jacobson buying in Manhattan Beach. In part because there is not much developable or rentable space left in that city, the Santa Monica firms tend to be smaller.

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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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So, despite their rivalries and silos, people have come together, and we now have all 5 UC campuses in Southern California, plus Caltech, Harvey Mudd, USC, UC San Diego, and others involved. The risk-taking culture is fantastic, and the ecosystem is super-well developed. It's a phenomenal place. It's a great place.