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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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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? My degree is from USC in big data. As you probably know, Viterbi is the engineering school at USC. What drove your interest in this area?

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CreatorUp Links You With Top Filmakers & YouTube Creators To Make Awesome Web Series

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Learning experience includes: on-demand online video tutorial courses, live video-conference workshops, as well as individual online consultations, live workshops, and group programs. Mike Tringe earned his BA in History and Science from Harvard, and his MFA in Film Production from USC. What inspired you? How does it work?

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Interview with Brett Crosby and Brew Johnson, PeerStreet

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I grew up in Thousand Oaks, went to USC, and we met each other way back in the 90's. Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors. So, what is PeerStreet?

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Interview with Brandon Hance, Audiolife

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We've got a suite of on-demand, manufacturing tools which means they never have to spend money upfront. Brandon Hance: I was actually a student athlete, a quarterback at USC, and was on a couple of the national teams. Brandon Hance: Two in particular do on-demand, Cafepress and Zazzle.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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He built & IPOd Demand Media. We see big data storage solutions and processing platforms. Communications: Of course comms companies are springing up globally including WhatsApp, Line, KakaoTalk, WeChat and the dominant platforms of Facebook & Twitter. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM). He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA. On Demand).

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