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Interview with Noah Auerhahn, Extrabux

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For this morning's interview, we talked with Noah Auerhahn , President of San Diego-based Extrabux (www.extrabux.com), an online site focused on providing consumers with comparison shopping combined with discount offers. Noah Auerhahn: We got started right out of USC. Noah Auerhahn: We just had too much free time at USC.

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Decoding The Science Behind The Laughs, With Daniel Altman of Laffster

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Those investors included a company called Paradigm, which is a big talent agency, Howard Lindzon in San Diego, and up north Greylock and Adam Nash. From research and working with IAC, was saw that more than fifty percent of the videos online are web humor and comedy. Recently, USC's film school started a comedic content major.

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Has Technology Made Election Polls More Accurate? Not Yet

Xconomy

The USC/Los Angeles Times Daybreaker poll, which had shown Trump leading for months, put the Republican 3 points ahead on the morning of the election, according to the newspaper’s recap published today. But on Election Eve, NBC News reported that Clinton held a stable 6-point lead over Donald Trump.

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New Leader at Intel Capital Adjusts Strategy as Global Summit Opens

Xconomy

The recent funding deals that Intel Capital laid out in San Diego Monday, on the first day of its 17th annual global summit, also reflect the strategic thinking of Wendell Brooks, who took the helm at Intel Capital about a year ago as longtime president Arvind Sodhani retired.

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How Yapert Puts All Your Interests In One Mobile App, With Phil Kelly

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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 where the company started from.

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Interview with Marc Averitt and Sharon Stevenson, Okapi Ventures

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We're starting to see some very innovative product ideas out of places like Caltech, USC, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and the like. It was literally just Rob and Warrne with the idea, with no web site. We have an open door policy, we have our phone numbers and email on the web site, and we're very approachable.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

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The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.