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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? At Microsoft, I was part of Bing Maps, which is Microsoft''s response to Google Maps. An example of that is the UCLA flood.

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Interview with Wes Nichols, MarketShare

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We have a very sophisticated, analytics and software platform that over half the Fortune 50 are now using, to help guide how they invest in marketing and sales activities and investments. Jovian's platform allows us to process and analyze campaigns in-flight, and also provide in-flight course corrections for marketers.

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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. They not only have gotten bigger but they have an amazing track record of funding the biggest names in the sector: Cisco, Apple, Google, Facebook. LA produced Applied Semantics that created AdSense and was bought by Google. my firm, GRP Partners, was an investor).

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Unbucket: Planning Your Life With Friends, with Elliot Darvick

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Elliot Darvick: Unbucket is a platform that enables people to enable planning of their future experiences through collaborative lists. For example, one of my favorite lists is "Adventures before leaving DC", which was a way for one of our users to organize the things they wanted to do in DC before moving to California.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. We are creating a platform that enables users to play instant games and apps directly on the computer desktop. What are you working on now?

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

Tech Zulu Event

Photos that are prime real estate and have never been monetized before, until one very ambitious Silicon Beach startup, GumGum , recognized the opportunity and created the first and largest in-image advertising platform, and an entirely new market. He began programming courses at UCLA while in high school and went on to earn a B.S.

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Vision, School, & Work | Interview with Jim Farley CMO Ford Motors

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As I sat quietly at CCE and listened to the openings and keynotes – LA Mayor Eric Garcetti, Ford CMO Jim Farley, and Google Maps for Business Director Tarun Bhatnagar, I came to realize what an interesting crossroads we’re sitting at. I mention my worries to Jim, with Google-acquired Waze in mind.