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Effective Networking Starts With Empathy

Tech.Co

Perhaps the most memorable connection was when I met my cofounder of Flux Ventures, Miles Anthony, during a casual lunch at one of the dining halls of UCLA. My favorite group by far is the “All Things Social Media” Facebook group, where influencers, social media marketers and experts share their knowledge with the community.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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You can press a button, and it scans the social media chatter and organizes highlights aroundyou, of relevant conversations around a particular location and particular time. We now have a team of nine engineers and scientists, with experience from companies like IBM, Demand Media, and Google, all part of our core engineering team.

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How FilmBreak Is Bringing Data and Analytics To Hollywood, with Darren Marble

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One of those is Hollywood-based FilmBreak (www.filmbreak.com), which is applying the world of social networking, media, and the Internet to help film-makers gain access to the analytics and insights they need to better market their films. Lots of them were in online media and entertainment. Where's the service now?

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WESAWIT | Experience Events Through The Eyes of The Crowd

Tech Zulu Event

The mobile app and website that allows people to capture and share images and videos of events through social media. Thibault Mathieu: Morgan and I were both in film school at UCLA. The cool thing is we were not only taught about film and TV, but also about new media. TechZulu: So where did WESAWIT originate from?

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Interview with Wes Nichols, MarketShare

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Essentially, we help them learn how to get more with less, and also how to consider new investments in things like social media, mobile marketing, or video. We're building very advanced analytical models which look at both direct and indirect effects, so that we are able to quantify how different media interacts with each other.

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

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At the Twiistup panel last week, there was a debate over whether big companies could be created here, which is ridiculous--Demand Media is the latest example there, we've got Cornerstone OnDemand coming out soon, and there is no question there are market leading, large revenue companies coming out of Southern California.

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TX Zhuo Talks About LA's Newest Venture Fund, Karlin Ventures

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Specifically, we look at digital media, healthcare IT, e-commerce, education technology and financial services. For example, MuckerLab, had 100 percent of their companies funded out of their most recent class. If you walk down the hallways of UCLA or USC, and ask them for the successful startups here, they can't name anyone.

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