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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. We started working on local web design projects, but got sick of that in six months.

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

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In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S.

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

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a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S. Dinesh earned his B.S.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. Although both parents are educators, his father a professor and his mother the Commissioner of Education in Connecticut, they did not teach him business. Leverage a feedback platform like Get Satisfaction or UserVoice.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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I recently spoke at Caltech at the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum on “the future of social networking,&# the 30-minute video is here and the PowerPoint presentation is here on DocStoc ). encouraging an open platform where 3rd parties can make lots of money]. emerge and are there any lessons to be gained about the future?