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Interview with Bruce Huang, UCLA Silicon Beach Innovation Lab

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I go to lots of events in Los Angeles, and there are many entrepreneurs who want to start companies, are bootstrapping, and everyone has a great idea and is figuring out how to launch their products and launch their startup. At the same time, companies are saying that in cybersecurity and data science, there are 1.5 million unfilled jobs.

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Ryan Blair, HashtagOne: From Gang Member, To Entrepreneur, To Anti-VC

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He eventually founded and sold consumer health firm ViSalus to a public company and is now back making investments, in technology companies, as a venture capitalist here at Los Angeles-based HashtagOne (www.hashtagone.com). My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney.

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How Cloudvirga Wants To Disrupt The Slow, Antiquated Mortgage Industry

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in funding, from Dallas Capital, Upfront Ventures, and Tribeca Angels. My counterpart, Mark Attaway, our CIO, was at Fidelity national and LSI, both title companies, building automated platforms for the title process. He's my mentor, and I've known him since I was nineteen years old, when he was an Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine.

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