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From Nothing to Something with Howard Marks & Nanxi Liu

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The USC Entrepreneur Club and the Kairos Society brought Howard Marks , a successful entrepreneur and founder and CEO of StartEngine , on campus to speak about his past experiences. We live in a generation of startups,” Marks began. He described why the time is so ripe for innovation and why this was a great time to build startups.

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Interview with Scott Ferreira, MySocialCloud

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If you were a student in college, working on a startup idea, what would spur you to drop your education plans, and go full time on your startup? We understand you were in school when you started this? I started playing around with a similar idea in my freshman year. First off, what is MySocialCloud?

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How TenOneTen Ventures Is Investing In LA's Technology Future

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In particular, funding for companies developing deep technology--software and cloud, as opposed to content and media--seems to be lacking. I was just at USC yesterday, and they''re really focused on great things in science in engineering. You had quite a bit of success in the past with your startups. David Waxman.:

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Reflections On 2017: Krisztina 'Z' Holly, MAKE IT IN LA

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We also started offering Factory Tour Workshops to entrepreneurs, with nearly 100 applying for the pilots. It's the emails from fans and the enthusiasm from founders that keeps driving me to be an evangelistto contribute my time to building the community through MAKE IT IN LA and telling the stories through my podcast. in August. (We

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Interview with Scot Richardson, Laughstub

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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. How did the company start? What is Laughstub? Finally, what's next for you?

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Language Weaver's Mark Tapling On Growth, Exits

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It's been awhile since we last caught up with Los Angeles-based Language Weaver (www.languageweaver.com), a venture-backed firm which develops language translation software, so we sat down the other day with Mark Tapling , the President and CEO of the firm, to hear more about where the company is nowadays--plus its strategy for growth and an exit.

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Interview with Marc Averitt and Sharon Stevenson, Okapi Ventures

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All systems were go for the product, and we were really focused on getting the product out of the door, marketing it to customers, and setting up meetings in the academic space, with researchers who wanted to use the technology. When you started, we were in a completely different kind of world, in terms of the economy.

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