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How ScoreStream Is Crowdsourcing Its Way Into High School Sports Media

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In the world of sports, getting high school sports scores have always been an issue for local media, such as newspapers and television stations. We caught up with serial entrepreneur Derrick Oien , who is CEO of the company, to learn more. What's so interesting about what you are doing for the media outlets?

Media 100
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How SportStream Is Crowdsourcing Its Way Into High School Sports Media

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In the world of sports, getting high school sports scores have always been an issue for local media, such as newspapers and television stations. We caught up with serial entrepreneur Derrick Oien , who is CEO of the company, to learn more. What's so interesting about what you are doing for the media outlets?

Media 100
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Interview with Jordan Glazier, Wildfire Systems

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When you look at social messaging, and talk about social messaging, we're talking about social media, text messaging, email, and chat applications. Those references drive trillions of dollars of commerce. We're really latching onto the growing trend of building products that detect product references in social messaging.

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Interview with Derek Norton, Watertower Ventures

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Earlier this week, Derek Norton , a long time advisor to the media, Internet, and technology industry in Los Angeles, announced a brand new venture capital fund called Watertower Ventures (www.watertowerventures.com). Our investment thesis we refer to as the connected consumer. Tell us about the new fund? and beyond.

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Soylent's Brilliant New Marketing Campaign: Soylent Is Plants, Not People

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We caught up with Soylent VP of Marketing, Andrew Thomas , to hear how the company finally decided to embrace the nameand the frequent trolling on social mediato instead emphasize the sustainable aspects of its products, as well as the new product line, with Plants, Not People. We get lots of comments about our name on social media.

Marketing 100
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Interview with Brian Norgard, Namesake

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Norgard is a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded NewRoo (acquired by Fox Interactive Media/MySpace) and co-founding Twitter advertising startup Ad.ly. We actually go to Quora all the time, and refer back to Quora as a knowledge source. First off, what is Namesake all about? Brian Norgard: Namesake is a conversation community.

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The Win-Win Of Healthy Snacks and Brand Discovery: Sean Kelly of SnackNation

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They love our service, because we actually give them direct access to who their exact target customer is, which is affluent Millennials, which Nelson refers to as Upscale Millennials, who have good jobs, and don't live in their parents' basement. What advice would you give to new entrepreneurs, looking to start their own business?