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JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. Tom Grasty: Essentially, we started off as a graduate school project at USC. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition.

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MARCH 14, 2011

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. What is Laughstub? For anyone that small, Ticketmaster doesn't make sense.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

I figured out that there was this massive market for comedic content, but the market was extremely scattered. We set up to develop that technology, in partnership with institutions and researchers, psychologists, and marketing professors. Recently, USC's film school started a comedic content major. READ MORE>>.

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APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. Mike Tringe earned his BA in History and Science from Harvard, and his MFA in Film Production from USC. Who are its founders? What inspired you? How does it work?

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DECEMBER 14, 2012

As a designer, I can post a mission, and you can check out my portfolio of work, which is then completed and hosted on the site. You provide payment when the mission is complete, and the payment is handled through the site. I went to USC, and was doing grad school and my MBA when I met Atish.

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JULY 22, 2014

We spent a morning talking about the transition from being an engineer to being an entrepreneur, having the distinction of being the first digital health startup to emerge from USC Viterbi’s Startup Garage , and drilling down to what really matters in all of our entrepreneurial efforts – listening to consumers. This was run out of USC?

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MARCH 26, 2012

There is no other site that helps you connect with people and also finds those with things in common. We met at USC, and we had traveled a lot with study abroad programs. Instead, we ended up at the usual floating markets, the white elephant. Aigerim Duiseneyeva: We met with Idealab through a USC Marshall competition.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2010

Our continuing relationship with USC is precious in that regard. We've been able to harvest lots of scientific advances from Kevin Knight (editor's note: founder and Chief Scientist, and a researcher at USC's Information Sciences Institute), which we've been able to include in our business. We've been able to achieve that.

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Software Review USC Content Tech Coast Angels 145

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MAY 11, 2011

We're the only site that is specialized in people over the age of 35 in that area. How did you end up starting the site? My other, non-marketable skill included philosophy. Out of over every ten people who see the site, one or two are really gravitate or are attached to it. What does Anti-AgingGames do?

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MARCH 24, 2010

The store allows in-page transactions, and never redirects them to another site, keeping them captive and leveraging impulse buys. Brandon Hance: I was actually a student athlete, a quarterback at USC, and was on a couple of the national teams. There are lots of custom merchandise sites out there--how do you compete?

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AUGUST 20, 2009

We spoke with Sherry Gunther, CEO and founder of the firm, earlier this week to get a better look at the company and the dynamics behind the virtual world market nowadays--as well as why Sherry decided to make the jump from the world of entertainment media to online. There seem to now be a slew on kids-focused virtual worlds.

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

By offering that software for free, we've attracted over 10,000 writers to our site. What we've done, is we attract those writers to our site, and have a revenue model based on the content. That target market is huge, and includes sites like YouTube, you also have Revision3, and other sites doing short videos.

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

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OCTOBER 2, 2015

What we set up to do on the site was to set everything up in advance, so if you wanted to go to a specific restaurant, all you do is post a restaurant date and time and see if any girl is interested. I had gone on dating sites, I was on Jdate awhile back ,and ran into similar problems. Mitch Kahan: It's all about marketing.

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JULY 16, 2013

Marketing: SteelHouse. An ad:tech Innovation Award-winning company, SteelHouse is the technology industry’s real-time marketing solution for online retailers. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Fun Fact: Technology is in their DNA. Incubator: Amplify LA.

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MAY 15, 2009

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. a social networking site for families), where the Yammer technology was developed. in Computer Science.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The effort--which Mike started along with Darren Rush (Koders.com), Jordan Mendler (CornerstoneOnDemand.com), and John Shiple (ultralivetv)--is hoping to market local startups to the many technical graduates coming out of local universities starting this fall. Does that mean job listings on your site, or more?

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Startup Technical Review Outsource Yahoo 206

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MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. Stacy and Darren, our other co-founder who's not here right now, actually graduated from USC. Talk about Telesign and what you do?

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Marina Del Rey Software Review Startup Incubator 113

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AUGUST 24, 2010

We were literally on the cusp of launching our prpoduct, and all of our work and money to date had gone into getting the innovative technology out of Caltech, exploring the marketplace, and making sure the product features matched with the demand of the market, which it clearly did. Is there a market? Sharon Stevenson: That's correct.

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OCTOBER 27, 2012

The idea came to John Kolker at USC 1 year ago, then through start engine him and his partner were able to make their idea come to life. It uses games that are already established in the app store and will be launching their beta site in the next couple days. The site launched a few months ago. The cost is only $1.29

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

We are totally bootstrapped, so I don’t have a lot of marketing dollars to spend. We’re sort of figuring out our short-term marketing strategy that will hopefully morph into our long-term strategy. For the people that sign up to our site, we are converting 35% of those people into customers.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Adam Goldenberg’s JustFab is one of the new heavy-hitting membership fashion sites. In a recent interview, Goldenberg stated that the online apparel market was a “bigger than $100 billion” business and that his company and others like it were poised to “take market share from traditional retailers”.

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