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Interview with Milo Sindell, Knowledge Genie

socalTECH

This morning, Knowledge Genie (www.myknowledgegenie.com) launched a new web site that helps experts and authors publish online information to the web. What is the idea behind Knowledge Genie? We call this a "Genie," and you can build a Genie using Knowledge Genie. How did the company start?

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

First it was street-style photography, then came the launch of her popular fashion blog WeWoreWhat. Naturally, the next step in Bernstein’s evolution from blogger to businesswoman was a technology startup. Karat, a startup building a bank for creators. With new followers — today her account, @weworewhat , has 2.2

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Tyler Jacks, Cancer Moonshot Panel Co-Chair, Discusses Roadmap

Xconomy

The Obama administration wants to speed up cancer research with its “Cancer Moonshot” program—packing 10 years’ worth of work on prevention and treatment programs into five is one of its rallying cries. X : The report starts by recommending a national cancer patient network. GENIE is one of several ongoing.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

He has performed this role since the company’s inception after Yammer was spun-out of Geni Inc. (a Prior to his roles at Geni and Yammer, David was the National Manager, Business Development & Business Affairs at LoopNet, Inc. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. in Computer Science.

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Earned Media: What is it & how can it benefit or harm your brand?

From the Venture Trenches

In his blog, Sean Corcoran describes the characteristics of earned media as having “evolved into the transparent and permanent word-of-mouth that is being created through social media.”. In 2009, two rogue employees filmed themselves spitting on pies and sticking cheese up their nose before placing it on the doughy pizzas.

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Earned Media: What is it & how can it benefit or harm your brand?

From the Venture Trenches

In his blog, Sean Corcoran describes the characteristics of earned media as having “evolved into the transparent and permanent word-of-mouth that is being created through social media.”. In 2009, two rogue employees filmed themselves spitting on pies and sticking cheese up their nose before placing it on the doughy pizzas.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

Developments Blog. Tech entrepreneurs and executives from Silicon Valley are moving south and buying up luxury homes in the Los Angeles area. He uses his former home, a just-under 900-square-foot beach bungalow two blocks away, to house Facebook employees visiting from up north. Loading… Real Estate. » More.