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LA Group Launches Effort To Promote Technology Corridor In Los Angeles

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The Los Angeles Mayor's Council on Innovation and Industry (LAMCII) has been meeting since March, to help identify the top issues facing growth companies in the region, and to propose activity to spur additional entrepreneurial activity and innovation, according to the group.

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Goldstar Adds Coffin, Moriarty, Harris As Advisors

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Moriarty is the former President and CEO of Ticketmaster, and is currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mayfield Fund, and was also an executive at Citysearch, and board member at Points.com and iLike. Goldstar is headed by Jim McCarthy. READ MORE>>.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

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We naturally progressed into live events, their passionate fan base, and to the venues themselves, where we are helping fans to navigate game day or the event day experience. We also do lots of things in-venue, including mobile ticketing, integrating with Ticketmaster, Comcast, and many other ticketing providers.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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We want to give our brightest new startups the connections and interactions they need to help streamline success. Commission Junction, MySpace, TicketMaster and many more. The company combines high-quality information about genetics, with tools that use family health history to help identify personal disease risk.

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Interview with Michele Ruiz and Dan Gould, BiasSync

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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? I call that providing habitsmonthly habitsto help individuals do better, make better decisions, and who need strategy and strategic implementation of this on regular basis.

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The Story Behind ScoreBig's Live Entertainment Tickets, with Adam Kanner

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Kanner tells us how his startup is trying to both help consumers get a straight deal on the live event tickets they want, and at the same time help sell all those unsold tickets for the industry. The retail channel is dominated by Ticketmaster and Telecharge and Outbox, and a whole bunch of others. That's your retail channel.

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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

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If you are a merchant, say you are Home Depot, or Ticketmaster, or Nordstrom, or Walmart, or Hotels.com, prior to Wildfire, there was no way for them to efficiently motivate and reward people for recommending their products. As a serial entrepreneur, what are you doing differently this time based on what you learned from your prior ventures?

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