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How FilmBreak Is Bringing Data and Analytics To Hollywood, with Darren Marble

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From a marketing marketing perspective, that allows filmmakers to quickly and easily promote their films through social media and build a fan base, and incentivize fans to support their films by offering access to exclusive content, livestream video chats, and production updates, as an example. That's great training for the startup world.

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The Talent Tourniquet | Making Los Angeles Startup Friendly

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Take, for example, the recent City Council vote to end ride-sharing services and effectively shut down an entire sector of emerging tech startups – putting both their app developers and their enterprising users stranded in no man’s land. People don’t just solely watch TV nowadays; they multitask with a handful of screens.

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Interview with Sunil Rajaraman, Scripped

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For example, we had a client who paid us to find a short script for them--what we did is we let our users know that so-and-so wanted a short script on this subject, and from those 10,000 writers they received multiple submissions. I went to UCLA Business School, and just graduated this past June.

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

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It’s a huge eco-system of automotive, tech, and regulations; and with anything industry-concept in nature, we understand the difficulty in giving concrete examples of projects in the pipeline. After I went to grad school at UCLA for finance, I decided to get into the car industry because it was my passion.

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How to Not Suck at a Group Presentation

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This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. Example: you’re a fitness tracking company like FitOrbit. Actual lines used are not from FitOrbit, they’re from me just for an example. Nobody wants to read your text on a big screen. In fact, they spent $2.4 For fawk sake, practice!

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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Let me use LA as an example. In my LA I often see computer screens open with entrepreneurs talking about digital media. We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. Sure, but it will be different than the Bay Area ones. Los Angeles. I live in the city of Santa Monica. million in SF Bay Area ).