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USC Startup Weekend | Complete Breakdown

Tech Zulu Event

USC hosted its first Startup Weekend from September 23rd to 25th and it rocked! The Smart & Social Gift-Suggestion Engine. Site Unseen. Site Unseen is a mobile app that serves as a personal tour guide for exploring a city. 2nd Place: The Smart & Social Gift-Suggestion Engine. 70+ students. 8 business ideas.

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Armorway Applies Game Theory To Real Life

socalTECH

According to the company, its software uses on-site cameras, historical crime records, social media, geolocation information, flight schedules, crowd movement patterns and real-time incident reporting for planning out patrols for USC, the Coast Guard, the Air Marshal service, and others.

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

SoCal CTO

Some days I respond to questions asked by folks like yourself, the press, or an entity doing a case study, i.e. Citrix, RIM, USC. It’s something I speak about quite a bit (see Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospects and Social Media for Service Professionals ). Look forward to the discussion.

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HipTraveler | Taking Startup Competitions by Storm

Tech Zulu Event

In order to support all of these teams, there are several on-campus startup competitions every year, from the Silicon Beach USC competition to the New Venture Seed Competition, with prize funds to help build the companies. With the ability to import images from social media, HipTraveler creates a shareable, searchable itinerary.

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Interview with Scot Richardson, Laughstub

socalTECH

My co-founder is Nasi Peretz, who is CTO of West Side Rentals, another LA company, and who also ran properties at USC for the business school and law school. The problem with one of those is, as a venue, you can build a beautiful website, and click to buy tickets--and you're on a completely different, branded site.

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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

Individuals use social networking sites such as LinkedIn and Plaxo as career-advancing tools, even more useful in a down economy. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium. This Panel will explore issues such as: How can companies best utilize social networking media?

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How TaskUs Is Powering LA's Technology Startup Boom

socalTECH

We''ll do things like retouch photos for sites like HauteLook, which is now owned by Nordstrom, and Gilt Groupe. We''ll also fill in product descriptions, filling in the copy you see associated with products on those sites. I had worked a year in investment banking, and Jasper was out of USC.

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