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Interview with Michele Ruiz and Dan Gould, BiasSync

socalTECH

How do you create a tool to help address unconscious bias in the workplaceand why would you create a new startup in that area? We have developed a tool that takes scientific, validated methodologies from academia, and use that to assess unconscious bias around race, gender, age, and other personality attributes, in the workplace.

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Stem: Simplifying Payments For Creatives, With Milana Rabkin

socalTECH

Our interview this morning is with Milana Rabkin , co-founder of Stem , a new startup which is developing a financial application which helps musicians and other content creators automate payments to members of their creative team. We spent a lot of time developing talent coming out of YouTube, and helped to grow that business.

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Interview: Clark Benson of Founder & CEO of Ranker.com - Dicusses Playing Nice With Google

InfoChachkie

It does this by providing simple tools which facilitate crowed sourced lists. I have written about people who live by strong social contracts in Humble Pride. Such lists are great fun, but what are some Ranker lists that you think provide the greatest utility, beyond the pure entertainment factor?

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Interview with Gabe Grifoni, Rufus Labs

socalTECH

For our interview today, we have an interview with Gabe Grifoni , CEO and founder of Rufus Labs (www.getrufus.com), which has has developed an Android-based, wearable device which is aimed at use in the enterprise, warehouses, and factories. Right now, the tools there are old and outdated, and mostly handheld.

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Interview with Kevin Strong, FutureDash

socalTECH

To kick off our first interview for the year, we've got an interview with Kevin Strong , the CEO of Laguna Beach-based FutureDash (www.futuredash.com), a developer of technology for the home energy monitoring market. We're in the category of energy monitoring tools. We're only using our money to pay developers.

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SoCal Heads to SXSWi | 2012 Panel Picking Guide

Tech Zulu Event

Design: Developing for a Consumerized Enterprise World (BetterWorks). Scaling thru Outsourcing. Tips and Tools for Managing Virtual Teams (Tecca). Digital Dailies: Reinventing Hollywood’s Workflow. Social + Location + Mobile = The Perfect Beer (Untapped). Power Up Your Life thru Mobile Gamification (Velti).

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

socalTECH

Elizabeth Amini: My first company was in graphic design, and provide both graphics for the entertainment industry, but also buildling websites for UCLA and all kinds of places around science, astrophysics, and those types of departments. Because they were science related, at some point I ended up talking with NASA JPL.

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