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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. For anyone from California, you know there are vast differences between the northern and southern parts of the state – so vast in fact that, to us, they could just as easily stand alone as two separate states. Social networking. Social games.

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BMW Targets Instagrammers With LA Auto Show Contest

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In an example of the rising interest of big advertisers in mobile social sharing site Instagram , auto maker BMW is dangling the chance to be the official BMW Instagram photographer to Instagram users who snap and post photos of local BMWs.

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

SoCal CTO

He’s done several startups and is a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (which is where I met him originally). 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. Who are some of your go to people in Southern California?

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Interview with John Mudge, iBN Sports

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In addition, all of that content, those two thousand games, all feed back to our studios in Southern California, where we continue to slice and dice and enhance that content for further distribution. It's a combination of sponsorship, advertising, and for some of our partners, fee for that content.

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Interview with Vic Caretti, Loudvine

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Southern California--and particularly, Los Angeles--has always been a center of the music business, which makes it unsurprising that there are many, music-focused startups which end up starting here. It's really been word of mouth, really viral, because we've never advertised. That's now what we're advertising.

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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

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We're describing ourselves as a micro-cap venture fund, focused on digital media opportunities in the emerging ecosystem of Southern California. It's all that stuff that allows publishers and advertisers to better understand their user base and how to effectively monetize it. In terms of SoCal as a market, it's a shame.

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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

Tech Zulu Event

Silicon Beach Fest covers more than 30 topics that uniquely reflect LA’s strengths, including: Investors, Entrepreneurship, Entertainment, Games, Social Media, Digital Content, Advertising Technology, Design UX/UI, Fashion, and more. billion was invested in Southern California start-ups with 220 new companies launching in Los Angeles.