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

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Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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Reflections on 2019: Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures

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To build it, weve hired some amazing people, including Nick Kim, who is now leading platform development at Crosscut. So far, under Nicks leadership, weve built sourcing and pipeline management systems, a portfolio growth and development platform, and a job board to serve the entire city named Interchange. in 2005 for $680M.

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WESAWIT | Experience Events Through The Eyes of The Crowd

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The mobile app and website that allows people to capture and share images and videos of events through social media. Thibault Mathieu: Morgan and I were both in film school at UCLA. The cool thing is we were not only taught about film and TV, but also about new media. He’s the most talented developer we have ever seen.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

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Product Development: philosophie. philosophie has worked with some of the world’s biggest names: Google, Nissan, Nintendo, UCLA, and more. Whether the end goal is a functional business app or a mobile-friendly website, philosophie’s modern, open-source approach to development is sure to get the job done.

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Innovation and Geography

SoCal CTO

LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Some events, like a recent Tech Coast Angel event at UCLA are really worth it. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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Challenge of Predicting Winners

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At the same time, when I saw an old colleague at an event at UCLA a few weeks back, we both were discussing how hard we felt it was to predict success in this kind of venture. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. The poor guy.

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