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SURE: Bringing The Insurance Industry Into The Digital Age, With Wayne Slavin

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We're partnering with the biggest insurance brands, including Nationwide, and many, many others�25 different insurance companies�and taking their insurance policies and selling them in a unified way, making it available to consumers via iOS and Android apps and the web. I applied, and left Southern California to New York for the program.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

Streaming media. Social media. 5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California. For anyone from California, you know there are vast differences between the northern and southern parts of the state – so vast in fact that, to us, they could just as easily stand alone as two separate states.

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What Mattered in 2012: Kevin Winston, Digital LA

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For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. So we did a one-day fall Silicon Beach Fest at io/LA in Hollywood. See more insights from the Southern California high tech community in our continued series this whole week!

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

SoCal CTO

He’s done several startups and is a board member of the Technology Council of Southern California (which is where I met him originally). I frequently work on networking through the social web and building new relationships that will foster knowledge gathering or business growth. A great opportunity for more visible networking.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

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You can press a button, and it scans the social media chatter and organizes highlights aroundyou, of relevant conversations around a particular location and particular time. So, the highlight could be a celebrity sighting, an accident, a New York fashion show, and so on and so forth. READ MORE>>.

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PR for Startups

SoCal Tech Calendar

Get tips on mastering social media and earning coverage for your company in the press and on the web. LAVA is putting together a panel of experts from the PR world, including journalists, bloggers and PR wizards to give you a map on how to navigate the world of public relations. See [link] (more)

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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

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The fund--started by Brian Garrett and Rick Smith --has been focused on digital media investments, and so far has made investments in six companies. We're describing ourselves as a micro-cap venture fund, focused on digital media opportunities in the emerging ecosystem of Southern California.