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Reflections on 2019: Brett Brewer, Crosscut Ventures

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Twenty-two years later, the tech presence here has not only grown, but the city is now home to dozens of accelerators and incubators for startups. Prior to starting Crosscut, Brett was a serial entrepreneur who built, operated, and sold a number of internet media companies including Myspace.com. in Business and Economics from the UCLA.

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WESAWIT | Experience Events Through The Eyes of The Crowd

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The mobile app and website that allows people to capture and share images and videos of events through social media. Thibault Mathieu: Morgan and I were both in film school at UCLA. The cool thing is we were not only taught about film and TV, but also about new media. TechZulu: So where did WESAWIT originate from?

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

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In some ways it is similar to early stage incubators such as Y Combinator, although FI is even earlier stage, focusing on developing the founders themselves as entrepreneurs as opposed to actual companies. What were those and how is that changing now given how things are changing in social media? How did you do that?

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

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philosophie has worked with some of the world’s biggest names: Google, Nissan, Nintendo, UCLA, and more. Incubator: Amplify LA. Social Media: Snapchat. From websites to apps, philosophie creates engaging and efficient digital experiences for many different industries.

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Interview with Howard Marks, Start Engine

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Los Angeles is an amazing place, and we have fashion, e-commerce, advertising, games, media, entertainment companies which I think make Los Angeles a phenomenal place. We've been able to get a bunch of applications already through word of moth, from talks at different classes, and most recently at the UCLA Business School.

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Innovation and Geography

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LA is a vibrant community with a rich network of angels that fund early stage companies, lots of VCs, easy access to big media, lots of innovation in media, mobile content, games, green, health care, and many, many others. Some events, like a recent Tech Coast Angel event at UCLA are really worth it. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.

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Challenge of Predicting Winners

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At the same time, when I saw an old colleague at an event at UCLA a few weeks back, we both were discussing how hard we felt it was to predict success in this kind of venture. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking? The poor guy. What a bad $200M decision. Why did YouTube win? Why did MySpace win?

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