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Streamlining The Sports Recruiting Process with FieldLevel

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We''re not the company which tells athletes to jump on our site, and we''ll spam you to schools and find you a place. When we arrived at USC, we began to talk about how we struggled during the recruiting process. Brenton Sullivan: We really put the customer at the center of our business, something that many entrepreneurs miss out on.

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Interview with Tom Grasty, Stroome

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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. It ran in April of 2008.

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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

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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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How TaskUs Is Powering LA's Technology Startup Boom

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Bryce Maddock: TaskUs is the best provider in the world of customer care and back office services for emerging growth companies. Customer care, obviously, is emails, phone calls, and customer service back office services. I had worked a year in investment banking, and Jasper was out of USC.

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

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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? Back to the website, describe who the demographics are of your customers? Out of over every ten people who see the site, one or two are really gravitate or are attached to it. It's fun an effective.

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Social Networking and Business Value

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Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?"