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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

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For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC. Noah Auerhahn: We just had too much free time at USC.

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Has Technology Made Election Polls More Accurate? Not Yet

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The USC/Los Angeles Times Daybreaker poll, which had shown Trump leading for months, put the Republican 3 points ahead on the morning of the election, according to the newspaper’s recap published today. But on Election Eve, NBC News reported that Clinton held a stable 6-point lead over Donald Trump.

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How Yapert Puts All Your Interests In One Mobile App, With Phil Kelly

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Yapert raised a funding round a few weeks ago from the Tech Coast Angels, Desert Angeles, and Pasadena Angels for its mobile apps, which consolidates news and information about your favorite interests. There is a lot of searching and sorting just to find out, for example, what the USC Trojans or Tesla Motors might be doing.

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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. Those investors included a company called Paradigm, which is a big talent agency, Howard Lindzon in San Diego, and up north Greylock and Adam Nash.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

Tech Zulu Event

The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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Los Angeles. We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. There is no region in the country that comes close to having the sheer number of angels & VCs that Silicon Valley has as well as the dollars that flow into the region (40% of all dollars, PwC Moneytree report ). Let me use LA as an example.