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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? I also have a visiting appointment at USC. The two other co-founders, one at USC and the other at the University of Utah are professors at those universities. What is Episona? Those are the two big things.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

However, for students at USC, UCLA, and Caltech, that just doesn''t exist. The second, which involves a lot of people, is building awareness at universities--notably, USC and UCLA. The third is a platform to connect everyone on, which is being provided by Internships.com, which is at techla.internships.com. READ MORE>>.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Planana is a reward platform that has perks like benefits, such as discounts to tickets to attendees who engage with their brands. Anna Sergeeva: After we raised a round of funding from the Tech Coast Angels and USC, we spent a few months really getting to know the events space. So, we pivoted from focusing on RSVPs to Planana.

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JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. Tom Grasty: Essentially, we started off as a graduate school project at USC. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition.

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Journal USC News Startup 187

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

CreatorUp is the online web series school teaching the next generation of web series creators how to make and market their own new video projects on the web. Mike Tringe earned his BA in History and Science from Harvard, and his MFA in Film Production from USC. What inspired you? How does it work?

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APRIL 30, 2014

In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies. If the online solutions that exist in the markets today were adequate, that number would be near zero.”

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Tech Zulu Event

JULY 22, 2014

We spent a morning talking about the transition from being an engineer to being an entrepreneur, having the distinction of being the first digital health startup to emerge from USC Viterbi’s Startup Garage , and drilling down to what really matters in all of our entrepreneurial efforts – listening to consumers. This was run out of USC?

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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MARCH 14, 2011

For this morning's interview, we spoke with Scot Richardson , CEO of Los Angeles-based LaughStub (www.laughstub.com), which develops software which helps comedy clubs and others manage ticket sales, online marketing, and customer relationship management. What is Laughstub? For anyone that small, Ticketmaster doesn't make sense.

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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. Recently, USC's film school started a comedic content major.

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AUGUST 26, 2016

Lior Elazary: We started at USC, working on various robotics related products. 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.

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Artificial Inteligence Commerce Startup USC 100

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

I grew up in Thousand Oaks, went to USC, and we met each other way back in the 90's. Brew Johnson: At the high level, it's a marketplace, a lending platform for real estate. We said, let's create a technology marketplace and platform that creates benefits for those existing lenders, as well as investors. So, what is PeerStreet?

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JULY 16, 2013

Marketing: SteelHouse. An ad:tech Innovation Award-winning company, SteelHouse is the technology industry’s real-time marketing solution for online retailers. Their Behavioral Marketing Platform even broke new ground at ad:tech 2011 winning an innovation award. Fun Fact: Technology is in their DNA.

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MAY 2, 2011

Their slideshow presentations addressed a number of questions about their products including target demographics, customer needs, marketing avenues, financial/revenue streams, leading competitors, and etc. The girls gave their live slideshow pitches with cheeky excitement, using skits and live acting to show the need for their products.

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Technical Review Entrepreneur Software Review USC 82

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. Each of these platforms represents a variety of “screens” to view from. People are not simply watching the TV anymore.

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socalTECH

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. There is a lot of searching and sorting just to find out, for example, what the USC Trojans or Tesla Motors might be doing. That''s the marketing side.

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Mobile Startup Entertainment Tech Coast Angels 159

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. Brock Pierce is a 10x entrepreneur best known for pioneering the market for digital currency.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. But it’s more atypical for investors located in this market.

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MARCH 1, 2017

We're now one of the top five tech markets in the world, along with the Bay Area, New York, the rest of Southern California, companies in India, and places like China, Berlin, and London. They used to be 70 percent of the M&A in the market, but they're now only 30 percent. That will cause a real boom in M&A.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. an enterprise social networking platform provider located in Los Angeles, CA. Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. in Computer Science.

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Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 28, 2012

From visualization to conception, and actually taking the product to market, a company usually takes about 1-2 years to create. Before the pitches started, I ran into a fellow Trojan I knew who just graduated from USC, Nathan Doctor. Business Development (BD) worked on a business plan, market research and customer validation.

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OCTOBER 30, 2008

That target market is huge, and includes sites like YouTube, you also have Revision3, and other sites doing short videos. Zak went to the Peter Stark Program at the USC Film School, which is a very prestigious program. We put together the screenwriting resources ideas and collaboration platform, and the two combined to become Scripped.

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Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

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MARCH 24, 2010

Brandon Hance: I was actually a student athlete, a quarterback at USC, and was on a couple of the national teams. They're focused on the hobbyist market, and we're very focused on a subset--musicians. They're the largest marketing platform in the music business, and we've signed on to be their exclusive ecommerce partner.

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Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

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AUGUST 20, 2009

We spoke with Sherry Gunther, CEO and founder of the firm, earlier this week to get a better look at the company and the dynamics behind the virtual world market nowadays--as well as why Sherry decided to make the jump from the world of entertainment media to online. Sherry Gunther: That's been the advantage of a maturing market space.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Its an event that provides a platform for the worldwide twitter community to: listen, connect, share and engage with each other, while collectively exploring the effects of the emerging real-time internet on business. Clinton Schaff (@clintschaff) - USC Online Communities Industry Faculty. For those wondering what is the 140conf?

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

Pasadena-based BigStage (www.bigstage.com) is one of those rare companies that has taken technology developed from university research, and is now bringing that technology to the commercial market. We spoke with Phil Ressler--a former venture capitalist from Clearstone Ventures--who is now CEO of BigStage.

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Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement.

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Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

If you look back, the original founder, Stephan studied at the USC Foreign School of Music, so there is a long standing connection with LA. All of our team consists of not only composers but also for example, Karl Moestl does the creative marketing and the artist relations for us. So different markets all together.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We have world-class universities like Caltech, UCLA, USC and more. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so.

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