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What Mattered in 2012: Kevin Winston, Digital LA

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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?

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

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philosophie has worked with some of the world’s biggest names: Google, Nissan, Nintendo, UCLA, and more. Abrams, Jim Wiatt, and Zach James have presented at Amplify’s Wednesday evening mentor events. Entertainment Tech: Atom Factory. Fun Fact: Los Angeles heavy hitters J.J.

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

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Think about how many images are on the web. He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S. Perhaps one of the reasons it took 20 years for the commercial web to monetize images is because matching images with content is a very difficult. Millions, billions, trillions?

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

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to work on an entertainment-related technology project and have stayed ever since. This is a novel user interaction that embeds casual entertainment directly into the operating system experience, based on some fairly interesting underlying technology. Lou is a friend and colleague from UCLA Anderson. Details coming soon!)

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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

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We also had awesome group of mentors that included: David Waxman (Co-founder of PeoplePC, Spot Runner and Firefly Network), Paige Craig (CEO of BetterWorks ), Josh MacAdam (Co-founder/CTO at Ming.ly Also we would like to thank our global sponsors: Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Ven Corps, Twilio, Vertical Response, oDesk, Elance and OpenTok.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

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This included stabilizing a historically negative traffic and user trend, reducing the operational cost of the business by nearly 90 percent and pivoting the product from its legacy as a social network to a social entertainment destination. Where: UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095.