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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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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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You can press a button, and it scans the social media chatter and organizes highlights aroundyou, of relevant conversations around a particular location and particular time. Those three organizations have very strong networks inventure capital, entertainment, and academia, and put together the incubator.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

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. You mention social / viral aspects at both Google Photos and United Online. How did you do that?

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Challenge of Predicting Winners

SoCal CTO

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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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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Innovation and Geography

SoCal CTO

Some events, like a recent Tech Coast Angel event at UCLA are really worth it. Matching Algorithm ► October (15) eLearn 2009 Presentation – Twitter Along Los Angeles Technology Connector – Kurt Daradics Online Business Networking Los Angeles Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospec.

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