socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. Tom Grasty: Essentially, we started off as a graduate school project at USC. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition.

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Journal USC News Startup 187

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC. The site started as a concept that Jeff Nobbs, my co-founder, and myself developed while we were operating a cash-back and coupon website while we were attending USC. Noah Auerhahn: We just had too much free time at USC. How did the company start?

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USC CPC Sites Startup 207

SoCal CTO

OCTOBER 6, 2009

They put on great events. You can use keywords like: Events in Los Angeles or Southern California Events or even Santa Monica Events.

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Southern California Los Angeles Technology Council Stirrers and Shakers 243

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2011

USC hosted its first Startup Weekend from September 23rd to 25th and it rocked! A mobile and web platform that lets our users give and receive text messaging advice in a anonymous social community. Overall it was a successful weekend and we are looking forward to having it at USC again. 70+ students. 8 business ideas.

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USC Startup Tech Coast Angels Guide 82

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. 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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Web USC Course Guide 93

socalTECH

JUNE 19, 2012

Los Angeles-based HypeMarks , the developer of a service which helps users find new places to explore on the web, has raised $350,000 in a funding round, socalTECH has learned. HypeMarks was part of the StartEngine accelerator Q1 class; the company originally grew out of Sae Koo's business class at USC. READ MORE>>.

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Idealab SoCalTech USC Class 124

socalTECH

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Kevin Winston , is the organizer of Digital LA , the popular and widely attended networking organization for the Los Angeles startup, web, movie, music, marketing, and social media community. What was the biggest news for you/your firm this year?

Dollar Shave Club 272

Dollar Shave Club Technical Review Santa Monica Southern California 272

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

You've got a great idea for a web video series, but how do you learn about how to make that happen, to get distribution, and monetize that video? Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. Michael Tringe: We are an online web series school.

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Web Content Startup Education 187

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Entire communities of developers: students, professionals, and hobbyists, come together over a weekend to make web, mobile, and social apps that improve the sustainability of energy, air, and water systems in their community and in the world. LA's 2012 CleanWeb Hackathon will be hosted at the USC Campus Center Forum Nov.

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Los Angeles Angel USC Competition 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

Entire communities of developers: students, professionals, and hobbyists, come together over a weekend to make web, mobile, and social apps that improve the sustainability of energy, air, and water systems in their community and in the world. LA's 2012 CleanWeb Hackathon will be hosted at the USC Campus Center Forum Nov.

Los Angeles 113

Los Angeles Angel USC Competition 113

SoCal Tech Calendar

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

Entire communities of developers: students, professionals, and hobbyists, come together over a weekend to make web, mobile, and social apps that improve the sustainability of energy, air, and water systems in their community and in the world. LA's 2012 CleanWeb Hackathon will be hosted at the USC Campus Center Forum Nov.

Los Angeles 113

Los Angeles Angel USC Competition 113

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment , which develops 3D avatar technology, said today that it has partnered with video game company GGL Global Gaming, to provide free game content on its web site. Big Stage develops technology which converts digital photos of a person into a 3-D avatar. READ MORE>>

Tech Coast Angels 100

Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures USC Social Network 100

socalTECH

OCTOBER 29, 2012

And in particular, if you're developing comedy and humor content -- which is a big segment of the content being created--how to do you help people find the content which will resonate with them. From research and working with IAC, was saw that more than fifty percent of the videos online are web humor and comedy.

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Content News Startup Research 230

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

Los Angeles-based Alelo, the USC spinout which is developing "serious" games to teach languages and cultures, has scored a contract with the Voice of America.

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Outsource Development USC Web Los Angeles 100

socalTECH

MAY 11, 2011

So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time. You don't need a CD, or hardware, it's completely web based. One of those tips, is a half an hour walk, five times a week results in 33 percent less risk of developing Alzheimers. This is my third company.

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Study Startup Design Tips 252

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 30, 2013

SoCal Code Camp is at it again, getting together an amazing pool of experts to speak in front of fellow developers and developers-in-training here in Los Angeles. The event runs for two days from November 9 th to 10 th on the USC campus. Confirmed speakers include developers from Twitter, Microsoft, and Google.

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SoCal Southern California Networking JavaScript 76

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. A 12 - year veteran of the online world, he has worked in sales, business development and content partnership functions for Yahoo!, He is known for being able to monetize the social web.

Social Network 150

Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 Sunil Rajaraman: We provide free, web-based screenwriting software to aspiring writers and professionals in the community. One is that any producer of a short video on the web, or any producer of any content, can use out to find their desired content. What's Scripped?

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. Every developer, biz dev person, marketeer or sales rep on your team will be surrounded by scores of companies calling them like Sirens to switch teams. But we do have great technology developers. That sets us up nicely for the next phase of the web.

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Venture Capital Southern California Google Startup 314

socalTECH

MARCH 14, 2011

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. Scot Richardson: In a nutshell, we're a WordPress for venues.

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Ticketmaster CTO Hire Tech Coast Angels Social Media 140

socalTECH

AUGUST 2, 2013

What we''re doing, is curating the most popular interests, brands, and entertainers, which comprise the interest in the social web, and putting in on one platform. There is a lot of searching and sorting just to find out, for example, what the USC Trojans or Tesla Motors might be doing. That''s where the company started from.

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Mobile Startup Entertainment Tech Coast Angels 159

socalTECH

AUGUST 24, 2010

Helixis really has developed an instrument which really has exceeded the current standards, at a fraction of the cost, and we're really excited about it. We're starting to see some very innovative product ideas out of places like Caltech, USC, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and the like. Is there a market?

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Startup Southern California Ideas Research 185

socalTECH

JULY 16, 2013

We''re taking a fairly unique approach to program development, however, in that we will get involved with nonprofits and people with program ideas, and figure out how to fund them. I think our advantage then was the first wave of web-based innovation was more in the area of hard sciences, which is the domain of JPL and Caltech.

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Pasadena Santa Monica CalTech Technical Review 242

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2012

The team needed would consist of at least 1 non-technical business person (me) and 2 or more technical people—designer and developer. Two of the developers that were going to join me decided to continue on with their idea since they already had a team. There were a few things that made building the team difficult. The Code Wars Team.

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Startup Technical Advisors Ideas USC 99

socalTECH

AUGUST 13, 2010

Last month, Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), the developer of machine translation software, was acquired by SDL , a publicly held, UK-based firm in the language translation business. We've built a development team in Romania, which SDL is going to continue to grow.

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Equity Startup Acquisition Funding 168

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 378

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. Many companies are developing second screen technology, but few have come close to what Coincident.TV WOW, right?

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Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Technology and IP law are at the forefront of the movie, and themes include common issues in startups regarding cash flow, IP rights, tech development, product design and distribution of equity. Gagnier serves as the Chief Executive Officer of REALPOLITECH , a digital public relations and web strategy consultancy.

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IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

socalTECH

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Pasadena-based BigStage (www.bigstage.com) is one of those rare companies that has taken technology developed from university research, and is now bringing that technology to the commercial market. When we do a deal with a game developer to do integration, and then do another deal, we have to do more integration, etc.

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Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

Product Development: philosophie. 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. Part accelerator, part lab, and part café, Hub LA is a diverse community working for social good. Social Media: Snapchat.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Xconomy

OCTOBER 24, 2016

—Embodied, based in Pasadena, CA, and founded by USC computer science professors Paolo Pirjanian (the former iRobot CTO) and Maja Matarić, are developing robots to care for people.

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Capital San Diego USC Invest 87

socalTECH

MARCH 19, 2019

Stacy Stubblefield: We do two factor authentication, which basically means we send text messages with the codes you get when you log into a web site or even when you're just registering for a website. Stacy and Darren, our other co-founder who's not here right now, actually graduated from USC. Talk about Telesign and what you do?

Marina Del Rey 113

Marina Del Rey Software Review Startup Incubator 113

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

App developers are coming up with new ideas daily to make our lives easier. We launched with a web app, so we are only web-based. Being a serviceable app, do you see more services being provided through the web? ML: I do mentor and advise a lot of young entrepreneurs, especially from USC since I went to that school.

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Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2012

The idea came to John Kolker at USC 1 year ago, then through start engine him and his partner were able to make their idea come to life. Her idea won the AT&T Hackathon “It Can Wait” campaign last month and now the development is in the works with her team. You can also “mark your territory” and share your adventures.

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Startup Doc Ideas Mobile 73

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

and Founder at AuctionWagon), Ian Hunter (Co-founder/CTO at Zaarly), Grant Nestor (Community Manager at Factual ), Rahim Sonawalla (Developer Evangelist at Twilio ) and Rob Zazueta (Vertical Response). Guests, visitors and teams mingled away enjoying appetizers and snacks along with this LASW’s 3rd keg. Rob Maigret. Scott Sangster.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Adam Bell (@datatv) - Web Design and Branding with an attitude! CarmenElena Mitchell (@therealgirls) - Creator, "The Real Girls Guide to Everything Else" Web Series. Clinton Schaff (@clintschaff) - USC Online Communities Industry Faculty. Cynthia Lou (@CynthiaAnnLou) - Designer, Writer, Web & Brand Strategist.

Social Media 40

Social Media Journal Media Education 40

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Social Media and Urban Development in Hollywood. Keynote: Jeff Cole, USC Annenberg School Center For The Digital Future. Perfect Your Pitch for Web, TV, and Film. Keynote: Scott Kramer, President & CEO of Multibrain Network, Inc. 2:00-2:30 pm. Keynote: Mark Horvath, Founder of Invisible People. 2:30-3:30pm. 4:00-5:00pm.

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Social Media Los Angeles Media Angel 92