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Interview with Dave Eastman, Viterbi Startup Garage

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Dave told us a bit more about the Viterbi Startup Garage and several other associated efforts there at USC centered around the startup ecosystem. The Startup Garage is an incubator which gives preference to USC teams, or startups that are USC affiliated in some way, for example, alumni-led. What is Viterbi Startup Garage?

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GIBLIB Gets $2.5M For Medical Education Content In VR

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Los Angeles-based GIBLIB , which offers up a library of on-demand, medical content in 4K and 360-degree virtual reality, announced this morning that it has raised $2.5M The funding came from the Mayo Clinic, the Venture Reality Fund, Wavemaker 360, USC Marshall Venture Fund and Michelson 20MM. in a seed funding round. READ MORE>>.

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Announcing The Socaltech 50: Southern California's Up-and-Comers

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Ashish Soni , USC (Los Angeles, incubator/university). Internap , PricewaterhouseCoopers , Demand Media , Stubbs, Alderton & Markiles LLP , Oracle , Cresa Partners , UK Trade & Investment , PIXT , and many others. Evan Spiegel , SnapChat (Los Angeles, mobile app). Holden Steinberg , Pagewoo (Santa Monica, advertising).

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The Riskmaster, lyrics by Tim Draper of DFJ

Eric Greenspan

First, my thanks to Tim Draper for allowing me to use his song in my entrepreneur presentations at UCLA, Anderson School of Business and USC, Marshall School of Business. Invested all his mattress money. Bankers demanding blood refund. This song is the heart of soul of many entrepreneurs like me and I love sharing it.

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What Mattered in 2010: Greg Martin, Archer Venture Capital

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We've seen a lot of innovation come out of Los Angeles in the past few years, with Demand Media, Socialvibe, Zag, ShoeDazzle, Factual and many others. One company I've invested in is called 2tor (with substantial operations here in Los Angeles).

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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

Tech Zulu Event

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Opening Party hosted by Demand Media with KCRW at the Viceroy.

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Interview with Ryan Disraeli And Stacy Stubblefield, Telesign

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We started focusing on that, and at the time we were doing only phone verification, but then we started adding in data analytics because of customer demand, we added in some other things like straight messaging rather than pin codes. Stacy and Darren, our other co-founder who's not here right now, actually graduated from USC.