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Silicon Beach @ USC

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 -- Silicon Beach @ USC. USC, with a strong entrepreneurial tradition and home to the leading school for cinematic arts, is pushing the Silicon Beach movement forward with an upcoming forum. SoCal has had a long history of tech innovation and Los Angeles is undeniably the creative capital.

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Silicon Beach @ USC

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, September 13, 2012 -- Silicon Beach @ USC. USC, with a strong entrepreneurial tradition and home to the leading school for cinematic arts, is pushing the Silicon Beach movement forward with an upcoming forum. SoCal has had a long history of tech innovation and Los Angeles is undeniably the creative capital.

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“Visibility” — A Powerful Lesson on DACA and The American Dream from @LeonKrauze

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He went to college to study art and design. But 10 years ago with the financial crisis he could no longer afford to study. She was recently graduated from Cal State, Los Angeles and works at USC. He suggested León to me because they were both speakers at the commencement speech at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism.

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How Yapert Puts All Your Interests In One Mobile App, With Phil Kelly

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What we''re doing, is curating the most popular interests, brands, and entertainers, which comprise the interest in the social web, and putting in on one platform. You can go to your particular interests, pick your favorite brands and entertainers, and favorite them. How did the company start? That''s where the company started from.

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Krisztina "Z" Holly, MAKE IT IN LA: Bridging Entrepreneurship and Manufacturing

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Los Angeles is often thought of as just the city of entertainment and creative industries�but it turns out, it's a lot more. We recently did a study, and we found that there were nearly 3,000 new businesses created in manufacturing here in the last three years. In a similar way, I played that role in academia, at both USC and MIT.

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

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I studied cognitive science, the study of the brain, as an undergraduate. 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.

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

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Check out the entertaining video here.) Yet, in another study, it still has difficulties understanding Homer Simpson's actions. Z is known for curating and hosting the first ever TEDx (TEDxUSC) in 2009 and founding two innovation centers at MIT and USC. in August. . - READ MORE>>.

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