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Silicon Beach Fest

SoCal Tech Calendar

Friday, November 9, 2012 -- Silicon Beach Fest. Check out panels on What Accelerators Want, Meet the Junior VCs, Music, Games, Social TV, Arts Education, PR for Startups, Women Developers, Ad Tech, Telling Your Story: Script to Startup, Film Financing: Crowdfunding and VCs.

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Why Entrepreneurs Hate (Most) MBAs

InfoChachkie

Thus, it is no surprise that Harvard recently reported that 25% of its 2012 graduates accepted jobs as consultants, while 52% opted for careers in financial services. Per the 2012 Global Management Education Graduate Survey, the median debt of 2012 MBA graduates was $45,000, while the debt from top schools averaged $90,000 (e.g.,

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Social Media is a Boon to Startups Who Do It Right

Startup Professionals Musings

It should include education on style preferences and confidentiality. Gone are the days when companies could put up a website that sat on the screen like an electronic business card. According to the “ Small Business Marketing Forecast 2012 ” from Ad-ology, Social media for small business marketing has reached its tipping point.

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This Philanthropist Is Winning Skirmishes With Poverty By Tapping Into An Inner City’s Entrepreneurial Spirit

InfoChachkie

We have a rigorous screening process, and we only fund the very best programs that are able to quantify their impact. We kicked off Project Impact and 2012, and we’ve been thrilled by the response. Some are using technology in creative ways to customize and enhance the educational experience for students.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

Both Sides of the Table

Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). The reduction in screen size has made the economic model of Internet advertising totally inefficient. Higher education. There are 2.9 billion email accounts. This figure is predicted to reach 3.8 billion by 2014. 94% of all online adults use email. Not so fast.

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myLINGO | Connecting Non-English Speakers with the Movies

Tech Zulu Event

OP: It was 2012 when my brother and I took our cousin who was visiting from Poland to go see the movie Hugo. OP: myLINGO is a smartphone app where you can select and download an audio track of a movie in your preferred language and go to the theatre and have that audio track synchronize to the movie playing on the screen.

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MuckerLab Unveils Second Graduating Class to Investors

Tech Zulu Event

With over 9 million photo questions posted since October 2012, their users spend 170 minutes a month on the service. Forget the second screen, play and interact with video content today. There is no right answer many times, just gut instincts and educated guesses. Members rate each other’s photos and tag with questions.

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