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Venturing in the Privacy Tug-Of War

SoCal Tech Calendar

Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. Some are pushing the envelope in areas such as location-based services, facial recognition, and social media semantic analysis in order to exploit our personal information. Saturday, January 14, 2012 -- Venturing in the Privacy Tug-Of War: Opportunities in Controlling Personal Data.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

My first job out of school was at one of the early bioinformatics companies in Silicon Valley, working as the head of technical services. You mention social / viral aspects at both Google Photos and United Online. What were those and how is that changing now given how things are changing in social media?

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

That's funding our new product, FanMix, which is a a social media tool. Alex Benzer: We're building SocialEngine in parallel, and working on a new, software-as-service version. I was really into graphic design in high school, and took several summer workshops at Caltech. We scaled that to almost $1.4

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The Talent Tourniquet | Making Los Angeles Startup Friendly

Tech Zulu Event

Take, for example, the recent City Council vote to end ride-sharing services and effectively shut down an entire sector of emerging tech startups – putting both their app developers and their enterprising users stranded in no man’s land. But it’s not just the pull of outside influences sapping the talent, as many of L.A.’s But it is the L.A.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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 ). What are the big trends that will drive the next phase of social networks? And so it goes with social networking.

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

Both Sides of the Table

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. In New York you have access to fashion, media, art and of course, financial services. It is the second largest city in the country with (18 million inhabitants) (vs. million in SF Bay Area ). Funding is different outside of Silicon Valley.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

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. provides online service to compile and compare plans and rates across multiple monthly services.

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