SoCal CTO

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I have a few meetings with the team, perhaps about the website design, radio show structure, an event we are working on, a sponsorship (perhaps the uniforms for our youth basketball team). 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. Love the minis!

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Acquisition Customer Custom Ideas 170

TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Kevin Mayer, the former chief executive of TikTok; GV chief David Krane; Aaron Levie from Box; the tech media and entertainment guru, Matthew Ball; and product maestro Eugene Wei all participated in the round as well. I was drawn to the unique design-driven approach because that’s what is needed to create a new category here.”.

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Los Angeles Entertainment Seed Funding USC 173

socalTECH

JUNE 20, 2014

Kevin is also well known as the organizer of the Digital LA networking group (digitalla.net), which hosts dozens and dozens of events in Silicon Beach every year (Editor''s note: socalTECH.com is a media sponsor of the event). We''re showing people that we have the cool media-entertainment stuff, which is cool and great, and we love that.

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Santa Monica Conference Belkin Southern California 205

socalTECH

DECEMBER 14, 2012

Do you have a small task (graphic design, page layout, UI) you wish you had someone do, in an affordable way? Some of the more popular tasks there are for designers, UX, photographers, and videographers. As a designer, I can post a mission, and you can check out my portfolio of work, which is then completed and hosted on the site.

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Startup Design Demand USC 219

SoCal CTO

MAY 15, 2009

Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities. Corporations increasingly see social media as a key PR, communications and marketing medium.

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Social Network Networking Yammer CTO Hire 150

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Social Media Week (SMW) helps organizations connect and share the latest social media findings through social, cultural and economic talks and workshops in major cities worldwide. A City of Angels: How Social Media is Bringing LA Closer to Utopia. Social Media and Urban Development in Hollywood. 10:30-11:00am. Tues 9/25.

Social Media 92

Social Media Los Angeles Media Angel 92

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 30, 2014

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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Competition Startup USC Southern California 104

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 3, 2018

link] I’m tired of hearing people on social media speak of “virtue signaling,” a term meant to silence well-meaning people from speaking the truth about injustices done to immigrants, African Americans, the LGBTQ community or speaking up on gender inequality. He went to college to study art and design. They began right at the bottom.

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Education Startup Los Angeles USC 174

Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

He built & IPOd Demand Media. LA is the largest metropolitan area in the US for people employed in art, design and media and the local creative economy of LA generates more than $140 billion in economic output – more than the GDP of many countries. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite.

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Entrepreneur Snapchat Startup Google 376

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

Brandon Hance: I was actually a student athlete, a quarterback at USC, and was on a couple of the national teams. There's a convergence between the paradigm of the music business, and the business of social media. What's your background, and how did you get into this? It represents a tremendous opportunity.

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Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 1, 2013

Mike Tringe earned his BA in History and Science from Harvard, and his MFA in Film Production from USC. He’s worked as an English and Film teacher at the American School of Tangier, and has also assistant taught film production at USC. Sara Akhteh received her BA in Film Theory from UCSC and her MFA from USC in Production.

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Web USC Course Guide 93

Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 11, 2013

ABC Family, Fox, Universal Music, Google, Facebook, Demand Media, MyLife, Riot Games, DFJ Frontier, Rustic Canyon, GRP Partners, Siemer and Associates, Marketshare, Saatchi Online, OMD, Ignited, Rubicon Project, Smashbox Cosmetics, NFL, UCLA, USC, and dozens of start-ups. Opening Party hosted by Demand Media with KCRW at the Viceroy.

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GRP Partners MyLife Dollar Shave Club Santa Monica 88

Tech Zulu Event

JULY 16, 2013

With 10,000 square feet designed to inspire innovation, Amplify LA is the ultimate start-up accelerator and entrepreneurial campus — all to bring together the brightest, most enthusiastic technology minds into an environment that provides solutions, support, and collaboration. Social Media: Snapchat. Incubator: Amplify LA.

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Startup Snapchat Venice Social Media 111

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. Coincident has a bigger vision than developing this technology just for the big media companies and ad agencies.

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Screening Content CTO Hire Platform 109

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

As lawyers in the social media and Internet law space, this duo brings to the table practical experience counseling clients in real time and explaining breaking legal news in plain English. 20 LA and the LA Media Reform Summit. She has guest lectured on cyberlaw at USC's Annenberg School of Journalism.

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IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Adam Bell (@datatv) - Web Design and Branding with an attitude! Carlos R (@CarlosHernandez) - Social media educator & co-creator of Social Media for the Uncomfortable. Ciaran Blumenfeld (@momfluential) - Owner Francie Pants & Producer Momfluential Media. Kelly Shibari (@KellyShibari) - CEO, Hourglass8 Media.

Social Media 40

Social Media Journal Media Education 40

Tech Zulu Event

DECEMBER 13, 2013

One guy was a designer, two guys were Ruby engineers, and I included – not an engineer. Do you think the main visuals are the appealing factors in digital media? I think design forward companies, we can get a little more attention and more referral traffic from that fact that we focus on aesthetics. ML: I do.

Technical Review 87

Technical Review Mobile Startup Los Angeles 87

Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 27, 2012

The idea came to John Kolker at USC 1 year ago, then through start engine him and his partner were able to make their idea come to life. A designer, a programmer and a product guy built Youregards as fun easy way to reconnect people in a personal way. You can also “mark your territory” and share your adventures.

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Startup Doc Ideas Mobile 73

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Some attendees came in a bit later on Sunday as they coded and designed throughout the previous night however everyone was “in the Loft” by mid-morning, along with other guests such as Paige Craig and Francisco Dao ( 50 Kings , Twiistup, and Writer at Fast Company). Rob Maigret. Scott Sangster.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

SoCal Delicious

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Richard Rosenblatt – Demand Media. A SoCal native and graduate of both UCLA and USC, Richard Rosenblatt led the growth of MySpace from an unknown to a household name. Most recently, Rosenblatt cofounded Demand Media, launching in 2006 with $120 million in equity and the acquisition of eHow.com. Matt Coffin – LowerMyBills.com.

Technical Review 75

Technical Review Entrepreneur Riot Games Southern California 75

SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 23, 2010

Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

The best person I know to talk about the growing entrepreneurship culture on campuses is Alex Zhang, a student at USC and the Managing Director of the student-run incubator LavaLab. LavaLab is USC’s first product design incubator program run for students by students. What is LavaLab/what is the vision? It’s a typical “Aha!”

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Incubator Southern California LAVA Los Angeles 40

socalTECH

JUNE 2, 2014

We spoke with Kristztina "Z" Holly --most recently, Vice Provost for Innovation at USC--about what Mayor Garcetti''s EIR program is all about, and her vision for how it might help shape the industry in Los Angeles. To some people, automotive might be surprising, but we''re the leading center for automotive design and automotive accessories.

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Los Angeles Startup USC Angel 216

Xconomy

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Statistical models, simulations, social media outreach, and the capacity to analyze big data sets—you’d think by now that technology would have delivered election forecasts that more reliably predicted Donald Trump’s victory in the 2016 presidential race. There were exceptions.

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Technology News USC Social Media 91