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

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Learning experience includes: on-demand online video tutorial courses, live video-conference workshops, as well as individual online consultations, live workshops, and group programs. 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?

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Language Weaver's Mark Tapling On Growth, Exits

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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. who have recognized this.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. He built & IPOd Demand Media. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0

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Interview with Marc Averitt and Sharon Stevenson, Okapi Ventures

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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. Interesting. So what's going on with the fund nowadays?

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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He has raised more than $200 million on behalf of his companies and led more than 30 acquisitions. Pierce also led the acquisition of Xfire from Viacom. He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA. and negotiated the company’s successful acquisition by Logitech, Inc., On Demand).

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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

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We started focusing on that, and at the time we were doing only phone verification, but then we started adding in data analytics because of customer demand, we added in some other things like straight messaging rather than pin codes. Stacy and Darren, our other co-founder who's not here right now, actually graduated from USC.

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Ten Tech Entrepreneurs Who Are Putting LA on the Map

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Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. A SoCal native and graduate of both UCLA and USC, Richard Rosenblatt led the growth of MySpace from an unknown to a household name. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com.