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How Google's Old Offices Are Becoming A Tech Hub, with ROC's Walter Grieves

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They're using the ROC platform to have their events in all one place, and take their investing from 8 to 30 days, down from 90 days. Walter Grieves: We have 20 percent entertainment and about 50 percent tech startups. We're just a neutral platform for the community. We want entertainment and digital, East and West, to meet.

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Silicon Beach at USC 2013 | Entrepreneurial Inspiration

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I wanted to connect LA’s incredible entrepreneurs with the larger business community and with the resources of USC.”. The second annual USC Silicon Beach event, hosted by the four professional schools at USC, featured a pitch competition and a conference filled with informational panels and interviews.

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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? My degree is from USC in big data. As you probably know, Viterbi is the engineering school at USC. What drove your interest in this area?

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Silicon Beach At USC | TZ Hooks You Up With 10 Free Tickets!

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USC’s Marshall School of Business and School of Cinematic Arts present Silicon Beach @USC : an event highlighting innovation, new ventures, partnerships and investment at the intersection of technology and digital content. Come join us for Silicon Beach @ USC! Silicon Beach @ USC. For a map and directions, click here.

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Jared Leto, Scooter Braun and Troy Carter are backing Moment House, a startup recreating live events… digitally

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The money came from heavy hitters in the Los Angeles entertainment and investment scene including Scooter Braun, Troy Carter, Kygo’s Palm Tree Crew and Jared Leto. For its first foray into live entertainment, Moment House is going to host a geo-fenced, location-specific tour for the musician Yungblud. million in seed funding.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. But LA is not Silicon Valley and we don’t need to aspire to be so.

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Interview with Phil Ressler, BigStage Entertainment

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What we've done, is we've taken technology originally developed at USC, a CIA funded project, and gained global commercial rights for the non-security sector. Phil Ressler: Big Stage's mission in life is to create a standard way to project yourself into the digital realm. Venture capital seemed the obvious way to do that.