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AUGUST 18, 2010

Jeff is the founder of crowd-sourcing location based mapping services web sites DeadCellZones.com and PhotoEnforced.com. Skype, Green Dot (Tech Coast Angels get 110X return), Tesla Motors, Demand Media, Linked In, Zynga, Glam Media, Gilt Groupe and Yelp all have very disruptive business models. However (More.).

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MAY 7, 2010

The next major change that we see, is now that they're online, they're becoming more web based, and adding things like rich media. We provide rich media to the STM market. For example, an author can talk about their recent research, which was published in a scientific journal, and highlight key findings.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

We had worked at another organization together in online marketing, and learned every aspect of the business, from closing new deals, on-boarding new clients, to building media plans. We worked together for four years, and I ended up heading up media buying at that company, and he headed up sales.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

We set up a digital media fund, which had the goal of investing in new digital media properties, ideas, and concepts. The digital media fund funded the company, and it's unique, in that Ross Levinsohn and I are incubating it ourselves in our office, and are running the company today. What was behind that decision? READ MORE>>.

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MAY 21, 2014

Are you a content creator for the web? It turns out, nowadays, creating the content is only a small part of your job description The most successful YouTubers, studios, brands and agencies today are intensely focused on using social media to engage with fans, get that content out there, and grow their audience.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

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. Ali Khoshgozaran: During my five years at USC, my research was in the area of spatial and temporal information management. What drove your interest in this area?

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

In the case of Los Angeles-based Laffster (www.laffster.com), you apply software algorithms, science, and research to figure it all out. From research and working with IAC, was saw that more than fifty percent of the videos online are web humor and comedy. As we did that, the industry and research started to grow around us.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Kanaan Jemili: uCast Global is a digital media company that is looking at creating a scalable global solution for online video. The second ones are media brand and companies and we have several of those brands on our platform. For the first three years, it was all about research and development, building IP and patents and so forth.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. Roberty Flynn: We are building what we see as the next generation of business to business media. What is Aggregage?

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AUGUST 28, 2012

Streaming media. Social media. MYTH 4: Research institutions are stronger in NorCal. Arguably the greatest research and development nexus in the United States rests in the area spanning San Diego to Los Angeles. Web Design Software. Web Hosting Software. Electric cars. Hybrid cars. Renewable energy.

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JUNE 30, 2009

We currently have data on 3900 counties, 1900 cities, including emails, web forms, web sites, telephones, faxes, you name it. The other feature that sets us apparent, is our integration with social media. Kurt and I are pretty Web 2.0 It's really helpful, particularly for companies who don't get social media.

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MAY 16, 2012

The idea was to save users time, and do the research for them to look at candidates. I handle all the research and questions, and Nick handles all the technical aspects of it. We started this a few months ago. We'd also like to get into the local and senate races like that, and keep expanding the service. READ MORE>>.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

My resume includes things like videogames, online worlds, online web, from everything as an engineer to a producer to technical director, to CTO. So, the question is how to take the city, and bring a technology identity to it, and augment the identity it already has around media and entertainment.

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MAY 16, 2012

The idea was to save users time, and do the research for them to look at candidates. I handle all the research and questions, and Nick handles all the technical aspects of it. We started this a few months ago. We'd also like to get into the local and senate races like that, and keep expanding the service. READ MORE>>.

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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. They can put themselves and their friends into the media and the digital experience.

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JUNE 16, 2009

The way it works today, is a web site might have an affiliate link, people looking for a mortgage or refi will input their info, and hit submit. It used to be that 1-800-dentist or 1-800-flowers number was the brand, but now, once you've been brought into a merchant's web site, you don't care what number is displayed.

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

Erik Rannala: MuckerLab is a new startup accelerator, focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. Erik Rannala: The name is a reference, actually, to Thomas Edison and the research lab he created. For those not familiar with accelerators and MuckerLab, explain what it's all about?

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JANUARY 13, 2010

Yesterday, Los Angeles-based Biddees (www.biddees.com) launched a new web site, which combines gift cards, a reverse auction system, and microdonations to nonprofits. Daniellle Mead: We did a lot of research on other sites, which usually are reverse auctions or penny auctions. What is the site all about? How do you handle that problem?

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MARCH 4, 2009

There are smart phone applications coming out, there are in-bound virtual telephone number service capabilities today, and there is a web gadget software solution--which I'm using now--which allows me to visually see what's going on, on a particular phone call. You've got to have Cogi in the middle of your call.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2009

We wanted to give users of Tibesti a way to share in the wealth of the web, a part of all those billionaires becoming gazillionaires. Mike Hale: From the research we've done so far, we're targeting the female audience first. I assembled a team of smarter people than me, and we built the expert product reviews, and grew from there.

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OCTOBER 8, 2012

There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. These days, there are more Internet guys at the Vanity Fair Oscar party than traditional media players.". WSJ Web Slice. LINKS TO ACTUAL PAGE CONTAINING WEB SLICE FUNCTIONALITY.

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