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Bring Gaming to the Physical World | Doozy

Tech Zulu Event

The University of Southern California (USC), is famous for its games program. With giant conferences like E3, showing off the coolest new video games to the world, very few innovations arrive in the game industry that’s off the screen. And video games have become a HOT topic. The game itself is simple to learn and fun to play.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

Both Sides of the Table

In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). And of course there was the F-bomb count that Cathy Brooks and I were keeping on Dave … by the end of the panel we had counted 8. Now back to work – we’ve got a venue to get booked.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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And of course we had, TheMan. Walk into any Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf in Southern California and you can’t miss their digital screens. Tags: SoCal Stuff. , Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. There were prominent founders of business like PriceGrabber, LowerMyBills and MyLife.

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My story: Fail locally, one customer at a time.

Berkonomics

It’s good advice; the theory being that entrepreneurs can discover the flaws in their business models sooner, make course corrections and move in a more favorable direction. You just had to be lucky, write reasonably good code and land in an industry with some legs, and of course, treat the customer well. . – Dave.

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Changing the Face of Digital Signage: Nanxi Liu of Enplug

Tech Zulu Event

They hold a strong presence in Southern California, with locations in 30 cities. 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. We started small, but wanted more innovation. All inclusive.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

Banks won’t underwrite an individual based on qualifications like their Instagram following, of course, and given that influencers don’t typically have a consistent income or a W2 statement to showcase their earnings, they may not be able to receive a bank loan to invest in their own brand. Benett/Dave Benett/WireImage). Rethinking value.

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Docstoc's Jason Nazar Talks About DocStore

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Do you screen all of the documents on the marketplace, or how does that work? Jason Nazar: We screen the profiles, but we don't screen the content. We want to make sure the marketplace is for professional content, so we screen to make sure the seller is a professional or small business owner, or a startup or entrepreneur.