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Silicon Beach At USC | TZ Hooks You Up With 10 Free Tickets!

Tech Zulu Event

USC’s Marshall School of Business and School of Cinematic Arts present Silicon Beach @USC : an event highlighting innovation, new ventures, partnerships and investment at the intersection of technology and digital content. Come join us for Silicon Beach @ USC! Silicon Beach @ USC. Everyone Else: $150.

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

SoCal CTO

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. It’s something I speak about quite a bit (see Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospects and Social Media for Service Professionals ). Look forward to the discussion.

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Interview with Scot Richardson, Laughstub

socalTECH

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. million comedy fans through our social media email list, we we think we can see the same in the music industry.

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Mark Suster, Nely Galan to Keynote Silicon Beach Fest

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ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Social Media. In 2012 over $3.2

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

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Previously known as GRP Partners, Upfront Ventures has focused on early stage investments since 1996. Fun Fact: Their latest investment was into LA-based Daqri – the augmented reality platform that has been used for campaigns with Cadillac and MAXIM Magazine. Social Media: Snapchat. Venture Capital: Upfront Ventures.

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How TaskUs Is Powering LA's Technology Startup Boom

socalTECH

I had worked a year in investment banking, and Jasper was out of USC. So, we wondered what we could do at a low price point, things like transcribing voicemail, things like social media sentiment analysis. What''s the story behind the company? Before that, I was in New York, City.

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How Yapert Puts All Your Interests In One Mobile App, With Phil Kelly

socalTECH

There is a lot of searching and sorting just to find out, for example, what the USC Trojans or Tesla Motors might be doing. We went out and validated this, and found out that the biggest people who dominate social media are clearly from the entertainment industry and sports, what you call stars. We all have likes and interests.

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