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How Google's Old Offices Are Becoming A Tech Hub, with ROC's Walter Grieves

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Walter Grieves: We partnered with USC, UCLA, and Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, Anderson, Annenberg Center, we have an internship program. Digital content is the software of Los Angeles. We're even building a digital media lab on our second floor. How are you working with the universities? We also hackathons and other events.

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How Cloudvirga Wants To Disrupt The Slow, Antiquated Mortgage Industry

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This isn't something like disrupting social media or buying a car. He's my mentor, and I've known him since I was nineteen years old, when he was an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine. Kyle Kamrooz: Where we are right now, is we've signed up some of the largest lenders in the country, who are just starting to install our software.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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Demand Media is an online media company operating two strategically-linked businesses: an integrated content and social media platform, and registrar solutions. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement. It filed for an IPO on August 6th. LowerMyBills, Inc.

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