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Beyond Entertainment | Social Media as a Tool for Marketers

Tech Zulu Event

Since its inception into the mainstream fabric of people’s lives, social media and the concept of social networking has gone through a rather peculiar evolutionary transition. It is now a standard with any new social network to be able to cater to both the consumer and the brand; the person and the product. From Fun to Big Business.

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Los Angeles-based ‘deep tech’ investment firm Riot Ventures is raising a $75M fund

TechCrunch LA

Riot Ventures , the Los Angeles-based, early-stage and deep technology investment firm is going out to market to raise a $75 million second fund to finance the development of startups in LA and beyond, according to fundraising documents viewed by TechCrunch. Oculus, Snap, Tinder and others.

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DataDirect Sets Sights On Cloud Storage

socalTECH

Chatsworth-based DataDirect Networks , a manufacturer of storage systems focused on the high performance market, said Monday that the firm has created a storage system specifically targeted at cloud storage. DataDirect's storage systems have previously been focused on the high performance computing (HPC) and media and entertainment industry.

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10 Apps & Tools for Maximizing Personal Efficiency

Frank Addante

I scan/fax documents to Evernote that I want to keep. On the personal side, I take photos of wine that I like and store them in a notebook called “Favorite Wines” and keep copies of all of my critical documents (driver’s license, passport, insurance documents, etc.) I take all of my meeting notes directly in Evernote.

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Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – Steve Gilison

SoCal CTO

Of course, I immediately gave him the whole spiel on Visible Networking and Steve was totally game to make our networking visible. I personally think that your background with entertainment would mean that you could do something interesting around product management for hybrid online and entertainment plays.

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Interview with Marlon Nichols, Cross Culture Ventures

socalTECH

For you, what that means, is we will leverage our network, which spans professional athletes, entertainers, government, and executives in Fortune 500 companies. In addition to that, black and brown people have been pretty well documented as earlier adopters of technology and consumer products. And, your network in general.

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Past Is Prologue: 13 Startup Lessons From How We Got To Now

InfoChachkie

3. Innovations Are Networks of Ideas. It pays to document your thoughts so you can recall them and combine them with future hunches. Film and radio helped Hitler mislead a nation, yet those same technologies have also educated and entertained billions of consumers. 5. Slow Hunches Lead To Breakthroughs.

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