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8th Talk at USC Marshall School: How My Failure at Make It Work can Benefit Geek Squad and Best Buy

Eric Greenspan

As I began prepping for my talk at USC Marshall School of Business about the recent failure of my 12 year old company Make It Work, I cannot deny many memories were dug up. In 2010, after my 5th talk, USC Marshall School produced a case study about the customer centricity offered by the company. Then, something else happened.

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Flinja Launches At DEMO

socalTECH

The firm showed off its service at the DEMO conference today, saying that its service is now available at both USC and UCLA, and will soon launch at Stanford. Flinja was co-founded by Victor Young, Rebecca Bahr, and Calvin Shen, and was part of the Summer 2012 class from Howard Marks' StartEngine effort. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Tim Sae Koo, HypeMarks

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Wish you could lean on your friends to get insights into the great new services you ought to try? We thought we'd get the pitch from Tim Sae Koo , the founder of the company, on how he took the idea from his business class at USC and turned it into a company, which is now part of one of the local startup accelerators in town, StartEngine.

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Language Weaver Expands Online Translation Efforts

socalTECH

Language Weaver said its software will be included in WorldLingo's free online language translator, to help users translate text, documents, websites, and email. WorldLingo provides online translation services; Language Weaver, a spinout of USC, develops automated language translation tools. READ MORE>>.

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Interview with Aigerim Duiseneyeva and Shana Zheng, TripTrotting

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Aigerim Duiseneyeva and Shana Zheng are the co-founders of the firm, and told us more about the service. First, for people who have never used your service, can you talk about how it works? We met at USC, and we had traveled a lot with study abroad programs. Anywhere you go, you have a local friend.

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TX Zhuo Talks About LA's Newest Venture Fund, Karlin Ventures

socalTECH

Specifically, we look at digital media, healthcare IT, e-commerce, education technology and financial services. If you walk down the hallways of UCLA or USC, and ask them for the successful startups here, they can't name anyone. TX Zhuo: Someone on our team will try to respond to every email. That's something we need to change.

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

SoCal CTO

I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses. A typical day starts with email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Yammer checks/updates. Sometimes I make a blog entry.