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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. We grew out of an interesting use case.

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Decoding The Science Behind The Laughs, With Daniel Altman of Laffster

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In the case of Los Angeles-based Laffster (www.laffster.com), you apply software algorithms, science, and research to figure it all out. My background is that I was at IAC, focused on advertising solutions and advertising engagement. Recently, USC's film school started a comedic content major. READ MORE>>.

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Learning The Ropes Of Internet Video With Michael Tringe and CreatorUp

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Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. We teach people how to make web series and video for the web, and specifically for sites like YouTube, and independent networks like Flip and Dailymotion. Michael Tringe: We are an online web series school.

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Interview with Howard Marks, Start Engine

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Are you an entrepreneur hoping to startup a company in the Los Angeles area? The latest to enter the scene is Los Angeles accelerator Start Engine (www.startengine.com), which was created by Howard Marks and Paul Kessler. We need the resources here in Los Angeles, and not force those companies to go elsewhere.

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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?"

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

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Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. We have traditionally been a company heard about through word of mouth, radio advertising (now our own show) and from a Mini sighting. CTM and USC, staff of Citrix Online, TCA members, and now you!

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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. We're the only site that is specialized in people over the age of 35 in that area. What does Anti-AgingGames do?

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