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

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By the end of the year, we expect to have ten to twelve different types of insurance available on our platform. So how is this different than how you can purchase insurance right now? We're here to serve, as a technology distribution platform, to help those insurance carriers become digital. Wayne Slavin: That's a good question.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

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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. Social networking. Social games.

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Reflections On 2017: Anna Barber, Techstars LA

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During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. In 2006 she sat next to a woman on an airplane who became her business partner in her next startup, Scribble Press.

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Reflections on 2018: Anna Barber, Techstars LA

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Editor's note: All this week, and into the start of next year, we'll be featuring reflections on 2018 from notable investors, entrepreneurs, and others from Southern California's technology community. In 2006 she sat next to a woman on an airplane who became her business partner in her next startup, Scribble Press.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

Both Sides of the Table

I believe that Twiistup is now a platform from which to grow and highlight what is uniquely LA. In SoCal we are also leaders in affiliate marketing (Commission Junction), Internet video (Hulu) and bringing local businesses online (ReachLocal). No doubt the platform that Francisco built will take Twiistup 7 to a whole different level.

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

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What happens when you apply big data and computer science to digest all of that social data being fed into Twitter and other social platforms--and cross match that to location information? Over the last year or so we''ve created Watsup, the easiest way to figure out what is happening around you, at any time. READ MORE>>.

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Trojans and Bruins Battle on the Startup Field

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It isn’t the biggest secret that the University of Southern California (USC) Trojans and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Bruins aren’t the best of friends, especially on the football field. On Sunday, March 2 nd at USC, these rivals took their battle to a new platform: startups.

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