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Beauty Noted, Founded By USC Student, Gets $2.2M In Funding

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Beauty Noted , an online beauty and cosmetics social discovery site founded by USC student Sarah Kortschak, said Tuesday that it has raised $2.2M The startup--which is based in San Francisco--said the funding came from Kortschak Investments, as well as IDG Ventures and Crosslink capital. in a funding round.

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ScoreBig.com Gets $10M Investment

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ScoreBig.com said the new funding round came from Checketts Partners Investment Fund (CPIF), and is the first close of a Series C round of funding. CPIF adds a board member as part of the investment. scorebig investment online marketplace live entertainment sports ticketing tickets' Kanner is a veteran of the sports market.

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Stacking Up The Online Film Submission Sites

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Last night, Amazon.com jumped into the movie business, with its own, online film submission site, Amazon Studios , backed by the help of a number of notable USC Film School advisors. million in awards over the next year to the best movies submitted to the site--with an exclusive option for Warner Bros. Founder: Rick Parkhill.

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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

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For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. For people who haven't heard of ExtraBux, what is the site all about? Noah, thanks for the interview.

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Interview with Scott Ferreira, MySocialCloud

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For Scott Ferreira , the founder of MySocialCloud.com (www.mysocialcloud.com), it was an investment from Sir Richard Branson and Jerry Murdock. After that weekend in Miami, he introduced us to his friend Jerry Murdock, who has invested in lots of tech companies. Why does the world need another social sharing site?

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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

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Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. I'd rather invest time investing in social media to drive traffic to our site. CTM and USC, staff of Citrix Online, TCA members, and now you! Love the minis! I consider it INVALUABLE!

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Interview with Scot Richardson, Laughstub

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So, I wrote the business plan and get investment behind it. My co-founder is Nasi Peretz, who is CTO of West Side Rentals, another LA company, and who also ran properties at USC for the business school and law school. We are launching a music vertical, which is very similar to our comedy site. How is the company backed?