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Amazon.com Takes On the Movie Business

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Amazon.com said Tuesday evening that it is launching a new online business, which looks to help find new talent and develop motion pictures from online submissions. According to Amazon.com, its new business-- Amazon Studios --will award a total of $2.7 Judges on the movies and scripts are include Jack Epps, Jr., READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

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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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Interview with Tom Grasty, Stroome

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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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Local Angels Back Scripted.com

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Scripted.com allows online publishers to hire writers to develop blog posts and Twitter posts from an online marketplace. Scripted.com also operates Scripped.com, an online marketplace for script writers, and was founded by UCLA and USC graduates in Los Angeles, and later moved to San Francisco.

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Learning The Ropes Of Internet Video With Michael Tringe and CreatorUp

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An example is Melissa Rundle, who was been writing for the industry doing FunnyOrDie type comedies. Michael Tringe: I went to USC film school, and graduated with a MFA in film production. I started writing, doing production, and wrote a winning student short, and also worked at Creative Artist in film distribution and sales.

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Interview with Fariborz Maseeh, Maseeh Entrepreneurship Prize Competition

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One of the attributes of this prize, is that USC is going to also conduct a business plan preparation and entrepreneurship course for the students. The outside mentors can then help them in making projections, looking into their marketing and business development plans, and look at sales projections and organization.

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Interview with Sunil Rajaraman, Scripped

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to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. Zak went to the Peter Stark Program at the USC Film School, which is a very prestigious program. Are you targeting Hollywood and existing script writing software?

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