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How NinjaThat Taps The Power Of Students For Business Tasks, with Atif Siddiqi

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Ninjathat (www.ninjathat.com)--recently graduated from the Dreamit Ventures accelerator in Philadelphia--is a Los Angeles startup creating a marketplace for connecting students with small jobs--"missions"--for working professions, alumni, and businesses. We caught up with Co-founder and CEO Atif Siddiqi , who told us about the service.

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

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Earlier this week, Los Angeles-based Anti-AgingGames (www.Anti-AgingGames.com), a new online game startup, announced a new service to help users improve their memory and concentration, as well as improve brain function. How did you end up starting the site? I ended up managing that project. This is my third company.

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Interview with Brett Crosby and Brew Johnson, PeerStreet

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Brett and I both grew up in Southern California. I grew up in Thousand Oaks, went to USC, and we met each other way back in the 90's. How did you guys start the company? I came up with this idea due to a deep obsession with the mortgage industry. It's too big of an opportunity to pass up.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA? Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. LowerMyBills, Inc.

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Social Networking and Business Value

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In 2005, Majid coauthored "Data Strategy" a book designed to help streamline information management within organizations. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. He has been an instructor in UCLA Extension for 9 years, and is a frequent contributor to various online publications.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Tech startup accelerators dot the landscape, feeding investments into the waiting arms of the nation’s most intelligent and driven entrepreneurs. Founder and CEO since starting the company back in 1999, Miller has led Cornerstone through 11 years of consecutive growth. 27 on the list of Most Valuable Startups. I’d say yes.

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Interview with Sherry Gunther, Masher Media

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In 2005/2006, I really saw that the trend was shifting from television to the Internet. As I watched my kids' eyeballs move over, as well as looked at the research data and advertising data which saw TV's share shrinking, I started looking into new media. Why start another one? Kids really need a deeper level of interaction.

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