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Interview with Dave Eastman, Viterbi Startup Garage

socalTECH

For today's interview, we spoke to Dave Eastman, the Director of the Viterbi Startup Garage, a startup incubator that is run by the University of Southern California, out of its location in Marina Del Rey. How are you different from other startup incubators, etc? What we do, is regional customer discovery for teams, typically academic.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

We have about 8500 customers there, but only a small percentage have built great communities that took off, and the rest floundered. That's why we built FanMix, to solve our own problem, and help our SocialEngine customers to promote their own sites. We have some great mentors now. After TechStars, how did you end up in LA?

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

Tech Zulu Event

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. Take the next left on Holliston Avenue, into Caltech campus. Event Details. to 10:00 p.m. Price: $25 (Early Bird).

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

Tech Zulu Event

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125. As of May 2010, CallFire has over 20,000 customers! Custom ad deals and partnerships. Event Details.