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OCTOBER 3, 2011
USC hosted its first Startup Weekend from September 23rd to 25th and it rocked! A mobile and web platform that lets our users give and receive text messaging advice in a anonymous social community. Site Unseen. Site Unseen is a mobile app that serves as a personal tour guide for exploring a city. 70+ students. Neighborly.
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APRIL 4, 2013
That''s what Los Angeles-based FieldLevel (www.fieldlevel.com) has been working on, making it easier for coaches to network and exchange information on athletes. We spoke with co-founder Brenton Sullivan about the company''s platform, and how it''s hoping to transform the athletic recruiting process.
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FEBRUARY 17, 2011
Image Metrics said it would merge Big Stag's avatar creation platform into its existing, real-time video animation technology. Big Stage--which was a spinout of technology developed at USC--allowed users to upload several photographs of themselves into software, which then automatically converted those photographs into a realistic avatar.
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FEBRUARY 12, 2014
There''s a gap between the robust, growing technology startups in Los Angeles and the many students graduating from local universities, according to Steven Dietz , who is a venture capitalist at LA''s Upfront Ventures. However, for students at USC, UCLA, and Caltech, that just doesn''t exist. That''s also true of UCLA.
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JUNE 30, 2010
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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MARCH 14, 2011
For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. Scot Richardson: We've done two rounds of funding, both angel rounds.
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OCTOBER 29, 2012
One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. In the case of Los Angeles-based Laffster (www.laffster.com), you apply software algorithms, science, and research to figure it all out. Recently, USC's film school started a comedic content major.
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