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Interview with Bruce Huang, UCLA Silicon Beach Innovation Lab

socalTECH

Companies are always complaining about how hard it is to find the right employees, and how technical talent is hard to find. Yet, you have many students, graduating with technical skills, who just don't know how to make it into a company. What is the UCLA Silicon Beach Innovation Lab? However, it's very difficult.

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

Both Sides of the Table

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. We have universities like CalTech, UCLA, USC and many more.

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Services For the Global Enterprise

SoCal Tech Calendar

CIO Impacts Forum. While the burden of software installation, update or maintenance is removed from the hands of the enterprise user, the burden of creating, managing and securing the infrastructure, devices, user accounts, and, networks, falls in the hands of the CIO.

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New Bootstrap Fund Pulls Itself Up in World of Health IT Deals

Xconomy

Just a few months earlier, Hinshaw had sold his private healthcare IT consulting company, MaxIT Healthcare, to government contractor SAIC for $473 million. Balgrosky, a health information administrator and former Scripps Health chief information officer, was finishing her doctorate in health policy and management at UCLA.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

World-class education including Caltech, USC and UCLA. Whatever you’re trying to brand – your company, your community or yourself – this is the first exercise I would recommend that you start with. We’ll work our asses off and build huge companies that will define the next generation of American’s lives.”

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Taming The Enterprise Texting Tiger, With TigerText's Brad Brooks

socalTECH

To solve that issue, Santa Monica-based TigerText (www.tigertext.com) has been developing smartphone applications which replace SMS, and provide companies with the ability to control, delete, encrypt, and otherwise gain control of the messaging between their employees. We spoke with CEO Brad Brooks to learn more about the company.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

Both Sides of the Table

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.