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MARCH 19, 2013

According to Demand Media, Creativebug's library of educational videos and network of designers will help bolster the crafts-related content on eHow. Creativebug offers up its online courses via either subscription ($16.99 and up per course). The firm was based in San Francisco. a month) or a la carte ($9.99 READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Justine Lassoff: Melinda and I founded TuesdayNights to help women connect and to impact change through networking events and infinite gatherings. Back then, there really weren't many networking events or groups for high power women in Los Angeles, so we really filled a need. You have to grow your network. Thanks, and good luck!

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MAY 24, 2013

USC said the new degree will cover such courses as secure operating systems and applications, secure networking, digital forensics, cryptography, and key management. According to the school, the new Master''s will be available both traditionally, as well as through Viterbi''s online education efforts. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

For students who have previously taken a data science course and earned a certificate or degree, now, they can look at and join a practicum internship for 12 weeks. Second, be smart about networking. Equip yourself with knowledge, and work on smart and meaningful networking. Bruce Huang: Equip yourself with knowledge.

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

For today's thoughts, we have Lief Morin , founder and CEO of KeyInfo (www.keyinfo.com), a regional systems integrator which provides compute, storage and networking solutions and professional services for advanced software-defined data centers. KeyInfo has also been a big sponsor for socaltech over the years).

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MARCH 12, 2013

What is it about the content delivery network market which has enabled Santa Monica-based EdgeCast to go from startup to over $100M in revenues in only a few, short years? We serve up four to five percent of the global Internet on our network. For those who don't know about EdgeCast, CDN services, who/what kind of clients you serve?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2012

LIftDNA's software works with ad servers to optimize the ads displayed from ad networks. OpenX is venture backed by Accel Partners, Index Ventures and SAP Ventures; the firm recently said it is on course to hit $100M in revenues this year. READ MORE>>.

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JUNE 19, 2019

We have highly engaging courses, taught by professional players, and where you track your progress, driven by data, and which also features an on-demand marketplace to help you find any coach you want to help you improve your play on any game. After finishing a course, we've found they likely also want to find a coach.

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DECEMBER 26, 2018

What was most striking was the diversity and breadth of the node-network that defines the region--so complex and at times, overwhelming. In my home we have a network of Alexas that provide news, information and music but have also become our de facto home intercom system.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

We teach people how to make web series and video for the web, and specifically for sites like YouTube, and independent networks like Flip and Dailymotion. We teach through video tutorials, with courses around specific sites, like how to make content for FunnyorDie, taught by one of the staff writers from FunnyOrDie. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

Baghdasarian was co-founder of Monterey Networks, which was sold to Cisco Systems back in 1999, has been an active angel investor in Southern California. It's started with managing courses and grades, on to a whole array of other services. Plus, you still have course management and grades. The other part of this is an app store.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The online news and politics show said it saw 256,000 unique views over the course of its seven hours of live coverage, which was the largest audience ever for a live broadcast for the company. Los Angeles-based political news site The Young Turks says that it saw record ratings for its live coverage of the Iowa Caucases earlier this week.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

To get an idea of what one startup in the industry is doing, we spoke to San Diego-based AirHop (www.airhopcomm-web.com), a developer of software being used for small-, pico-, and femto-cell networks. First off, can you help us understand where Airhop fits into the 4G networking market? Thanks for the time today.

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OCTOBER 26, 2016

We spoke earlier with Cody Simms , Executive Director of Techstars America and who leads the program in LA, to hear more about why the startup accelerator operator is opening up its third accelerator here, why Los Angeles has turned out to be one of the leading sources for startups across its network, as well as Cody's advice to entrepreneurs.

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JANUARY 5, 2015

Our last (belated) one is from Kevin Winston , the founder of Digital LA , the big networking group which helps to connect Silicon Beach through an extensive lineup of events. Over the last couple of weeks, we''ve featured a number of reflections on the year from movers and shakers in the local high tech community. I like events.

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OCTOBER 26, 2015

We have about 350, nationally certified, trainers on the platform, all vetted internally by us, and by our mentor network. They have the option of using those sessions with different trainers as they choose, and our average customer uses about three different trainers over the course of a month. How are you backed and funded?

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DECEMBER 28, 2010

For us, it was a big departure from social networking and a new commitment to social entertainment. The third one, of course, is Myspace! What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year? The biggest news was a complete, new launch of a new product, strategy and brand. READ MORE>>.

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MARCH 2, 2011

John Ellis: PurePhoto is a social commerce network, for buying, sharing, and selling original photographic art. One of the things that people will get out of PurePhoto, is we've combined social networking with the e-commerce element. John Ellis: We're scaling the business, including marketing, operations, and of course, capital.

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MAY 10, 2018

There's many connections and an immense network we've created at Cross Campus, by both myself and my partners in this particular venture. There's a network we are creating, and a connection between the geographics which is valuable on both sides. Behzad Kianmahd: It's a mutual learning, honestly. Behzad Kianmahd: Nothing is easy.

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MARCH 10, 2017

But what's also happened, is we've narrowed down the set of networks that we use as consumers to engage with companies. At the same time, those networks have all figured out how to be as helpful and relevant as possible. The reason those companies are growing so rapidly, is they are the intermediaries of everything we buy.

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DECEMBER 30, 2019

Instead, we will focus on helping high potential start-up communities like DTLA and Riverside gain momentum, connecting the fourteen SoCal start-up communities into a vibrant network and working with top corporations like Edison and Kaiser get more integrated into the robust and diverse SoCal innovation ecosystem.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

Anne Kavanaugh: At a high level, we're a music discovery network powered by ride share driver's. Anne Kavanaugh: Currently, our network is over 14,000 drivesr, and we are active in New York, Austin, and our newest markets are LA, DC, and Philadelphia. Explain what Steereo is and how it works? So how far along are you on this now?

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FEBRUARY 5, 2019

We sold Velocloud to Vmware, in the software defined network (SDN) area. Of course, we have a different focus than, say, a consumer focused fund, where there is a lot more volatility. Those investments have really broken out. Fund II will also be similarly concentrated. There, you end up having big winners but a lot of losers.

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JANUARY 11, 2019

Anne Kavanagh: At a high level, we're a music discovery network powered by ride share driver's. Anne Kavanagh: Currently, our network is over 14,000 drivesr, and we are active in New York, Austin, and our newest markets are LA, DC, and Philadelphia. Explain what Steereo is and how it works? So how far along are you on this now?

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MAY 21, 2014

As part of that, I started working for entertainment studios and networks, and saw the shift in consumer behavior to online entertainment. On the enterprise side, with the studios and networks, there has been a great focus on diversification from Youtube, which of course is just naturally supported in the way the platform works.

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APRIL 13, 2021

Those companies tend to be around for longer than one year, because of course our faculty are not working on those things full time, they're continuing to teach classes. We also have associate teams, which for the most part, are faculty associate teams. Those are faculty members who have a commercialization idea and want help with that.

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DECEMBER 12, 2012

Of course, the world is so much smaller now, with great communications products, which means that it's very easy to stay in the loop. When we took the investment from Ashton, that of course gave us a fantastic bridge into the entertainment community. They've been pulling resources from all over Europe. READ MORE>>.

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MAY 5, 2011

Of course I have. But it did take Brad as a public spokesman, consummate networker and successful VC to help create legitimacy to let David’s ideas flourish. In LA we have SoCalTech , for which I am grateful. There is a long tradition of these and it’s what formed the original angel network groups.

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JULY 7, 2014

The unique capability of that cloud, is of course, to be a cloud storage solution. Nelson Nahum: What we do, is enterprise storage as a service. Basically, what that means is we create software that runs on servers, which forms a cloud storage service. Now, the last summit had over 5,000 people.

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MARCH 28, 2014

Asher Delug: Airpush is a mobile ad network, similar to an Admob or Millenial Media. There are many other things I can''t yet talk about of course, but you will see lots of big news over the next couple of quarters. To hear how he bootstrapped the company to that size, we caught up with Asher earlier this week for a quick interview.

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APRIL 23, 2013

We operate the largest online news network overall, with about 1.25 We also have a television show, which is not connected to the network. How did the network come about? There, of course, trying to do my brand of independent programs on MSNBC ran into issues. billion views.

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MARCH 8, 2013

There's a volume of data, plenty of it, including information coming from sensor networks, machine-generated stuff, and lots of unstructured data such as MRIs, X-rays, tweets, and everything else, which everyone is trying to make sense of. It's just exploding. What they then immediately start to do, is prototype the product.

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JULY 1, 2014

Amplify was instrumental, because having a network down here in Los Angeles within the technology community, in addition to the media industry, was really the biggest value add in our early days. The two we went through early on were Amplify in Los Angeles, and Weiden & Kennedy in Portland, which made an investment through PIE.

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JANUARY 19, 2017

Although the idea of workforce development is a popular space, and there was lots going on with job listings and networking and all of that, there really wasn't a relevant, fun way for young people to understand what they could have a natural affinity for. I understand that at Stanford, one of the most popular courses is Designing Your Life.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2010

Of course not. By helping them, I mean the TCA will help founders with introductions, networking, mentoring, and of course capital; with business development, hiring, and whatever a startup needs. Is every deal we see going to be the next Google?

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AUGUST 6, 2012

She's a great expert, cable quality, and we feature multiple camera angels, visual stills, and of course the talent of the puppy. Joanne Bradford: Our owned and operated network is still the largest customer of our studio system. A great example is our YouTube video we created with Victoria Stilwell and videos on training a puppy.

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MAY 2, 2013

Both Waxman and Elbaz are serial entrepreneurs, with many successes under their belt (Elbaz with Applied Semantics, which he sold to Google, Waxman with such companies as Firefly Networks, SpotRunner, and PeoplePC). What''s the best way for entrepreneurs to approach you?

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