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Interview with Bruce Huang, UCLA Silicon Beach Innovation Lab

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At the same time, we're trying to help add women and diversity to technology and entrepreneurship. For students who have previously taken a data science course and earned a certificate or degree, now, they can look at and join a practicum internship for 12 weeks. Talk a little more about that gap?

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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Home of JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), which helps put rockets into space. And of course a place of idyllic weather, culture and a lifestyle. ” And of course it’s not a true assessment. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. This is the list I would start with. In Summary.

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

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Of course, not all VCs are like that, and I've started some good relationships with them, but others are complete a**holes. My CIO had been ex-CIO at Herbalife, and was an EVP of Software for Disney. I use the opportunity to test them, and apply my style and work with them, and help them. Execution is everything.

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Dallas Day of.Net | Training and Trends on Microsoft Technologies

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Speakers include Scott Hunger, a principal program Manager and Lead on the Azure Application and Platform Team; Richard Campbell, cofounder of Strangeloop Networks, Jeffrey Palermo, CIO of Headspring Systems and many more! Leveraging these techniques should put you on an even playing field or ahead of the native app competition.

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

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If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access. In New York you have access to fashion, media, art and of course, financial services. And of course you have Hollywood.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

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Four aspects of social Web evolution So what kind of emerging standards and technologies are we seeing that can help address these issues? Of course, in terms of how it will impact us at home and ultimately in business, as we’ve seen with Enterprise 2.0, These include: Open activity streams. There are others as well.

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