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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Wednesday, September 12, 2012 -- Silicon Beach @ USC. USC, with a strong entrepreneurial tradition and home to the leading school for cinematic arts, is pushing the Silicon Beach movement forward with an upcoming forum. SoCal has had a long history of tech innovation and Los Angeles is undeniably the creative capital.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Thursday, September 13, 2012 -- Silicon Beach @ USC. USC, with a strong entrepreneurial tradition and home to the leading school for cinematic arts, is pushing the Silicon Beach movement forward with an upcoming forum. SoCal has had a long history of tech innovation and Los Angeles is undeniably the creative capital.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2013

On Friday, February 22, USC’s Business and Entertainment Association (BEA) is hosting its 4th annual E2: Evolution of Entertainment Conference at the Town & Gown Hall at the USC Campus. It’s focus is on the evolving changes in technology that have had an influential impact on the business of entertainment.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

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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JANUARY 23, 2013

Walter Grieves: We have 20 percent entertainment and about 50 percent tech startups. Walter Grieves: We partnered with USC, UCLA, and Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount, Anderson, Annenberg Center, we have an internship program. It looks like you've targeted both entertainment and technology here? What's the mix of your clients?

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NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Last night, Amazon.com jumped into the movie business, with its own, online film submission site, Amazon Studios , backed by the help of a number of notable USC Film School advisors. Despite coming from Amazon, the local involvement is heavy, with USC's School of Cinematic Arts heavily involved, as well as other local entertainment execs.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Los Angeles-based Tilofy (www.tilofy.com)--out of USC''s Viterbi Startup Garage--is doing just that, helping to highlight what is going on around you, by absorbing all of that location data out there at any particular time and place. My degree is from USC in big data. As you probably know, Viterbi is the engineering school at USC.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

ScoreBig.com is led by Adam Kanner, and offers up an online marketplace for live entertainment tickets. The site''s current offers in Los Angeles include Dodgers, Angels, LA Kings, USC Trojans, and other discounted sports tickets, in addition to concerts and theater events. Kanner is a veteran of the sports market. Venture Partners.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

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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JUNE 10, 2014

Malibu and Beverly Hills have long been hot neighborhoods for entertainment execs. As the line blurs between tech and entertainment, and as Silicon Valley seeks synergy with L.A.’s One after another, tech and entertainment companies – and hybrids of the two – have taken root here. commercial real estate market.

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DECEMBER 27, 2012

The biggest news for Digital LA this year has been creating and spearheading Silicon Beach Fest, LA's first startup entertainment community festival in Santa Monica and Venice in June, 2012. In your opinion, what events, companies, or people made the biggest impact on the technology world this year?

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

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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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Philip Lelyveld , USC Entertainment Technology Center. Amit Jain , Bridg. Zack James and Rich Raddon , ZEFR (shared). Will Kassoy , AdColony. Ben Katz , CARD.com. Jonathan Kessler , Cargomatic. Ali Khoshgozaran , Tilofy. Nanxi Liu , Enplug. Tim McIntyre , StackIQ. Josh Meyers , Slickdeals. Scott Morrow , Luxury Link.

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

LA Cleantech Incubator , officially launched last week, and was created by Los Angeles Cleantech Alliance, a group supported by Mayor's Office, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Community Redevelopment Agency for Los Angeles, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, UCLA, USC, CalTech, and Arts Center College of Design.

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MAY 18, 2011

Known for its entertainment scene which blossomed in the early nineteen hundreds, LA also has some of the best schools in the country in UCLA and USC. Tuesday, May 24, 2011 -- Tech Cocktail. Los Angeles is the second largest city in the United States.

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DECEMBER 11, 2008

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment , which develops 3D avatar technology, said today that it has partnered with video game company GGL Global Gaming, to provide free game content on its web site. According to Big Stage, the deal will allow users on the site to insert the firm's 3D avatars into game photos and videos. READ MORE>>

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JANUARY 11, 2013

Downtown LA is a major up-and-coming area for technology startups with easy access to the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the new office is located only a few metro stops from Pasadena. The new office?s s opening will be marked with an industry gathering on January 15th at TENTEN Wilshire?s s rooftop terrace. See [link] (more)

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DECEMBER 3, 2008

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.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Los Angeles is an amazing place, and we have fashion, e-commerce, advertising, games, media, entertainment companies which I think make Los Angeles a phenomenal place. I was just judging the USC gaming hackathon. USC is producing lots of very talented game professionals, and so is UCLA. Howard Marks: Absolutely.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Los Angeles-based Big Stage Entertainment, a USC spinoff developing avatar technology, announced a new effort to provide its technology to third parties. Big Stage said it has created BackStage, which will offer its 3D face modeling technology to clients and partners.

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JUNE 19, 2012

LA City Council Member Eric Garcetti will give the opening keynote for the inaugural Silicon Beach Fest , a celebration of digital innovators in startups and entertainment happening June 21 – 23. Student Pitch: UCLA, USC and other student teams will compete for prizes. Click here to register.

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MARCH 17, 2010

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. But ultimately we’re on the Internet to communicate, buy stuff, become informed and be entertained. Communications is being changed by people like Twitter, commerce by people like GroupOn, informed by people like DemandMedia and entertainment by people like Hulu.

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AUGUST 2, 2013

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. You can go to your particular interests, pick your favorite brands and entertainers, and favorite them. How did the company start? That''s where the company started from.

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APRIL 21, 2009

Pasadena-based Big Stage Entertainment , the startup which uses photos to create animated, 3-D facial avatars of users, has added new content from a game from GGL Global Gaming. Big Stage is a spinout of technology from USC, originally developed for the CIA.

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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. A lot of people think of Los Angeles--rightfully so--as a creative hub, and just equate us with media and entertainment.

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APRIL 17, 2012

A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. An innovator in technology, especially monetization. Home of JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), which helps put rockets into space. downtown LA]. Also East of the 405?

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Third Wave Digital (Allen DeBevoise), Dream Maker Entertainment Ltd. Entertainment Co., Nikhil Jain: We actually are working on different use cases, in areas of entertainment, healthcare, and enterprise, and also in gaming, which is the reason a lot of these partners starting working with us.

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JUNE 20, 2014

We''re showing people that we have the cool media-entertainment stuff, which is cool and great, and we love that. While we happen to be located here, we have panels throughout today and tomorrow, talking about where in LA should I build my startup -- we have people from Hollywood, Pasadena, USC, talking about those neighborhoods.

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AUGUST 23, 2018

Before co-founding the company, President Nathan Burba served as the director of Project Holodeck, a USC project aimed at creating a full-body 360-degree VR experience. Since launch, Survios has generated plenty of notice from entertainment big wigs. Back in 2016, the company raised $50 million in a round led by MGM.

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DECEMBER 18, 2013

He is also the co-founder of Playsino, ExpressCoin (Bitcoin exchange), GoCoin (Bitcoin payment platform), Five Delta, Evertune, GamesTV, Digital Entertainment Network, KnCMiner.cn (Bitcoin Mining), and Robocoin China (Bitcoin ATM). He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA. Sponsored giveaways and contests.

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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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MAY 11, 2011

Elizabeth Amini: My first company was in graphic design, and provide both graphics for the entertainment industry, but also buildling websites for UCLA and all kinds of places around science, astrophysics, and those types of departments. We actually wrote the business plan in a business plan class at USC. This is my third company.

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AUGUST 20, 2009

We spoke with Sherry Gunther, CEO and founder of the firm, earlier this week to get a better look at the company and the dynamics behind the virtual world market nowadays--as well as why Sherry decided to make the jump from the world of entertainment media to online. Plus, exposure through USC led me to the Tech Coast Angels.

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JUNE 11, 2013

Silicon Beach Fest is gearing up to showcase the most promising startups and visionaries from across LA’s growing startup entertainment ecosystem. Mark Suster of GRP Partners and Launchpad was confirmed to keynote along with Nely Galan of Galan Entertainment, the first Latina president of Telemundo.

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OCTOBER 4, 2012

Michael Tringe: I went to USC film school, and graduated with a MFA in film production. Speaking of digital entertainment, where do you think we are now in terms of making that model work? They might know how to make a feature film, but when it comes to running a Facebook or Twitter social campaign, they don't know where to start.

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MAY 2, 2011

The evening was completed with a speech from the Keynote speaker, Lucy Hood , executive director of USC’s Institution for Communication Technology Management. The winners, Techno Unibot Freaks, with In a Flash received a prize courtesy of EA entertainment.

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JULY 16, 2013

As a footnote, the Innovate Pasadena logo is IP--there''s some symbolism around IP, intellectual property, and internet protocol, because we''re more science oriented than the Westside, which is more entertainment content and consumer oriented. We want to create businesses and engage with entrepreneurs.

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