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Amazon Studios To Continue Diversity Program With Howard University

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Culver City-based Amazon Studios , the arm of Amazon which is focused on creating content for Amazon's streaming video service, says it is continuing a program it runs with Howard University , intended to help increase diversity in the entertainment industry. Howard University, located in Washington D.C.,

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Catching Up With Eli Portnoy, Sense360

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For this morning's interview, we had a chat with Eli Portnoy , the CEO and founder of Culver City-based Sense360 (www.sense360.com), Of course, you make new mistakes, although your second one, you've already learned lots of lessons about company building, team building, fund raising, and how to build a board.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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And of course a place of idyllic weather, culture and a lifestyle. ” And of course it’s not a true assessment. Maker Studios, leading YouTube producer, generating hundreds of millions of video views every month [Los Angeles, near Culver City]. This is the list I would start with. And do so in real life, too.

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Changing The Business Of Media Through Online Video, With Cenk Uygur

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One of the folks in media who has been helping to define that shift is Cenk Uygur , the head of Culver City-based The Young Turks (www.tytnetwork.com), and online news and politics show. There, of course, trying to do my brand of independent programs on MSNBC ran into issues.

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Changing the Face of Digital Signage: Nanxi Liu of Enplug

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Her career path was pointing her toward a future in Biotech (she’d also cofounded a biotech company around the time), but one simple introduction recharted her course completely. Eventually, the team moved into a house (which at one point supported a crew of 20 people) and are presently in an office space in Culver City.

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Changing the Face of Digital Signage: Nanxi Liu of Enplug

Tech Zulu Event

Her career path was pointing her toward a future in Biotech (she’d also cofounded a biotech company around the time), but one simple introduction recharted her course completely. Eventually, the team moved into a house (which at one point supported a crew of 20 people) and are presently in an office space in Culver City.