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FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Skyler Lucci is co-founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based HeyTutor (www.heytutor.com), a startup which has created an online platform which connects and matches students with in-person tutors. In terms of where we offer to our customers, we have 250 different areas, from early childhood to studying for an MCAT or the bar. It's the hub.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

How do you take a new, genetic test to market, and how do you bridge the gap between research and the market? We have done both retrospective proof-of-concept and also prospective studies to prove out the concept, which is based on probably 100 papers worth of articles published in scientific journals. What is Episona?

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DECEMBER 30, 2015

Today, we have the thoughts of Jeb Spencer of TVC Capital (www.tvccapital.com), a software focused growth equity fund which just raised a new fund, and has had some great success in the market. TVC Capital has also been a big supporter of socaltech over the years. What was the biggest news for you or your firm this year?

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AUGUST 30, 2017

David Baird: I've been a musician since I was five, studying classical piano, and evolved into guitar like so many other people. What markets are you in right now? We're pretty much in every major market, particularly in music strong communities, like Los Angeles, New york, Nashville, and Toronto. and Canada.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

Costin Tuculescu: I cam out of UC Irvine as a software engineer, studying computer science. I immediately was recruited out into another company in webcasting, CTM Marketing Group, building out their platform for them. It's to help us grow quickly and to bring this product to the huge, small business market.

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MAY 16, 2013

You can secure it on your head, and use it during exercise, athletics, working in your office, or studying in the library. Arye Barnehama: It''s a really exciting time for hardware companies now, especially because of crowdfunding platforms. But we''re really excited to see how developers want to push the platform forward.

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APRIL 3, 2012

We have one, major original IP game in development, and a couple of weeks ago we announced a publishing deal with Zynga to publish our new game on Facebook and Zynga's own platform. Michael Witz: We've been building smaller, lightweight games on the Facebook platform since early 2008. That's really our focus.

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JANUARY 22, 2014

The world today is going increasingly digital, to such a degree that even quick serve and fast casual restaurant chains are eager to connect with consumers online, via smartphone, and even in their stores--so that they can better get to know you, market to you, and encourage you to visit. Our platform encompasses several things.

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JULY 24, 2017

There's a new Michigan State University study that came out earlier this year, which says that in only five years, a third of the U.S. WeMo is a consumer friendly, connected home, Internet-of-Things solution and platform that we developed, to control light switches, connected outlets, plugs where you can monitor your energy, and schedule.

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APRIL 11, 2013

He said something that we''ve now heard over and over--he was good at music, but when it came to marketing and Internet, it was just not his skillset, and he didn''t know how to do that. Those factors have allowed us to take our market size from 3000 cities, to where we are now, to literally coverage in 30,000 cities across the U.S.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

One of the major growth areas along Silicon Beach has been in the whole area of creating content for digital platforms. I figured out that there was this massive market for comedic content, but the market was extremely scattered. But, how do you figure out what actual content will resonate with online consumers?

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APRIL 15, 2019

One in three riders on our platform are over the age of 35, and many people who wouldn't try a scooter are enjoying our device. Josh Viner: I've always been a huge fan of the transportation market, because I have a huge passion of making cities better. It had the highest market share among five or six competitors.

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AUGUST 2, 2013

What we''re doing, is curating the most popular interests, brands, and entertainers, which comprise the interest in the social web, and putting in on one platform. Your background isn''t in celebrity/brand marketing--how''d you end up here? We really started to study the current generation of smartphones and what people do with them.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

Nikhil Jain: Clean Green Guy is an online platform, which allows entrepreneurs and inventors with green business concepts, ideas, and companies connect with investors, financing, and service providers. As my thesis in college, I studied the efficiency of salt water ponds to store solar power. What is the site all about?

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

We caught up with Sam Rogoway , the firm's CEO--and the former founder of TripUp, which is now part of Kayak--to hear about how the firm is hoping to revolutionize the local business video market with its services, which just launched last month. Sam Rogoway: We use YouTube as our hosting platform, for a variety of reasons.

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MAY 21, 2009

Brian Nilles, the firm's CEO, is no stranger to the 3D animation and computer graphics market, having served for ten years as CEO of Vicon Motion Capture, and he sat down with us to chat Darwin Dimensions and what's special about the firm's avatar software. These are platforms on which people build their 3D content. billion in 2009.

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JUNE 21, 2013

I studied finance, and worked on Wall Street as a credit analyst, so I understand debt better. I also had built an Internet marketing company prior to Dealstruck. This was a combination of finance and practical knowledge of the Internet marketing business, and it seemed to fit well with what we were trying to do.

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AUGUST 26, 2016

After USC, I wanted to do a startup robotics company, and looked at various parts of the market to figure out which are right for a robotics solution. So, we started with a simple robotic platform, and developed software to make up for the lack of precision hardware. So where are you now in deployment?

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JANUARY 7, 2010

To kick off our first interview for the year, we've got an interview with Kevin Strong , the CEO of Laguna Beach-based FutureDash (www.futuredash.com), a developer of technology for the home energy monitoring market. What does FutureDash do, and how do you fit into the home energy monitoring market?

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JULY 20, 2011

It came about, because we saw a gap in the market around entertainment news written for the 18-34 consumer segment. collapsed and the stock market was crashing, when I chose to leave a steady, paying full time job to go to HitFix. We didn't see anyone else in the market doing what we wanted to do on the entertainment side.

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OCTOBER 21, 2016

Deone Sulgatti: It's really the industry's first service and matching platform, designed specifically to connect Americans 65 plus with skills-based opportunities. We're conducting a number of studies in R&D, honing our user experience, and getting lots of feedback. What is Tengia? So where are you now?

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DECEMBER 11, 2008

Ramin Sadr is CEO of Los Angeles-based Mojix (www.mojix.com), a firm which is taking experience originally garnered by the firm's technology team in developing -- of all things -- deep space probes for NASA, and has been applying that to the RFID market. We believe we're well positioned to serve the market with great technology.

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