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Interview with Steve Poizner, Alliance for Southern California Innovation

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Steve Poizner: The Alliance is a new nonprofit, whose mission it is to bring together a lot of the amazing, unique assets of Southern California. We are devoted to the mission of supercharging Southern California's technology ecosystem, and help it emerge as a world class technology hub by 2025.

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Silicon Beach at USC 2013 | Entrepreneurial Inspiration

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All in a room at the University of Southern California Silicon Beach Event on September 18th, 2013. I wanted to connect LA’s incredible entrepreneurs with the larger business community and with the resources of USC.”. Sellbot helps online sellers sell through multiple platforms. Over $50,000 in prize money.

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Silicon Beach At USC | TZ Hooks You Up With 10 Free Tickets!

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USC’s Marshall School of Business and School of Cinematic Arts present Silicon Beach @USC : an event highlighting innovation, new ventures, partnerships and investment at the intersection of technology and digital content. Come join us for Silicon Beach @ USC! Silicon Beach @ USC. For a map and directions, click here.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? My degree is from USC in big data. As you probably know, Viterbi is the engineering school at USC. What drove your interest in this area?

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM). He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA.

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Interview with Phil Ressler, BigStage Entertainment

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The firm's technology--which creates a 3D, virtual avatar from digital photos--was originally developed at the University of Southern California for the CIA, and was spun out into a venture funded company targeting the consumer market. Venture capital seemed the obvious way to do that.