socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2010

Last week, Los Angeles-based Stroome (www.stroome.com), a new startup originally spawned out of a project at the USC Annenberg School of Communications, won $200,000 in the 2010 Knight News Challenge. Tom Grasty: Essentially, we started off as a graduate school project at USC. A few months later, we won the USC New Venture Competition.

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Journal USC News Startup 187

socalTECH

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Moorjani also serves as adjunct professor at the University of Southern California (USC) and is a faculty advisor at UCLA's Anderson School of Management. Comcast Ventures says Moorjani will be seeking to make investments in various sectors, including data and business intelligence, marketplaces and social networks.

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Santa Monica Southern California USC UCLA 100

socalTECH

DECEMBER 11, 2008

GGL operates a video game social networking site, which provides news, communities, and online gaming tournaments and competitions. The firm is venture backed by Mission Ventures, Selby Ventures, and the Tech Coast Angels; the firm's technology is a result of CIA-funded research efforts at USC. READ MORE>>

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Tech Coast Angels Mission Ventures USC Social Network 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

PT as they kick off the new weekly tech law show "TechZulu Law" with a discussion with IP attorney Denise Grayson, who portrays the attorney of Eduardo Saverin in the film about the early days of Facebook, "The Social Network.". In "The Social Network" Denise portrays Gretchen, the attorney of Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin.

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IP Social Network Technical Review Networking 81

Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more. LA was a leader in lead generation (LowerMyBills), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla), social networking (MySpace … I know, I know – Facebook won – but it was still a big business).

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Company Companies Technology Startup 290

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

During planning of the fifth year, Scott Kilroy from the USC LUG and Lei Zhang from the UCLA LUG approached him about throwing a joint effort; pooling their talents to put together the first SCaLE. Hosted at the USC Davidson Conference Center, it was initially a one-day event with just 20 speakers and two tracks.

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Southern California SoCal USC Conference 97

socalTECH

AUGUST 20, 2009

Sherry Gunther: MyMiniPeeps.com is a unique, online community for kids ages 6-13, which is both a social networking community as well as a game site. They're looking for deeper social networking, and more of a gaming element on sites. Plus, exposure through USC led me to the Tech Coast Angels.

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Media Tech Coast Angels Social Network Content 150

socalTECH

MARCH 24, 2010

We allow them to have virtual store fronts, portable stores, which they can place on their social networking profiles, on their own dot com, on their blogs, and so forth--anywhere fans already interact with the artist. Brandon Hance: I was actually a student athlete, a quarterback at USC, and was on a couple of the national teams.

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Van Nuys Tech Coast Angels Startup Web 191

socalTECH

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

I ran Altavista from 2001 to 2002 in Europe, and came back to the states, doing a lot of consulting between the Dot Com crash and the beginning of social networking. If you look at just Caltech, UCLA, and USC, and you look at our population base, we''re pouring out more engineers than pretty much anywhere.

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Startup Technology Incubator Silver Lake 231

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

DECEMBER 18, 2013

He has also been a guest lecturer at Stanford, USC, and UCLA. Mr. Csathy previously served as the CEO of social network and online video technology company Sightspeed, Inc., Peter Csathy - CEO Manatt Digital Media Ventures. Csathy was President and CEO of Sorenson Media, Inc., He continues to sit on the board of Sorenson Media.

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Startup Entertainment Media Santa Barbara 111

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. ” After almost one year, this is what Tint decided to do and relaunched with a social activity website that allows you to embed content from your social networks onto your website in one page.

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Startup Doc Ideas Mobile 73

socalTECH

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. They want a means of representing themselves that is animated, and changeable, and actively communicates in places like MySpace, Facebook, and other social networks.

Entertainment 100

Entertainment Clearstone Venture Capital Media 100

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Branded Content + Social Sharing = The Perfect Match. Keynote: Jeff Cole, USC Annenberg School Center For The Digital Future. Social Ink: Writers, Creativity, and Social Networking with WGAW. Friday: Innovation and The Future. 9:00-9:30am. Freshwire Daily Brief: Friday. 10:00-10:30am. 10:30-11:30am. 12:00-1:30pm.

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Social Media Los Angeles Media Angel 92

Tech Zulu Event

AUGUST 31, 2011

Evening guests and judges arrived including Scott Sangster (President of LA Tech Coast Angels ), Farhad Mohit (Founder of BizRate/Shopzilla and Gri.pe ) and David Carter (Entrepreneur, Investor, Mentor, advisor at UCLA/USC/Chapman). Guests, visitors and teams mingled away enjoying appetizers and snacks along with this LASW’s 3rd keg.

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Los Angeles Startup Angel Tech Coast Angels 73

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. MySpace is one of the world’s largest social networks, with about 125 million users.

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Guide Startup Mahalo GRP Partners 42