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Interview with Bruce Huang, UCLA Silicon Beach Innovation Lab

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The idea came about, because we see a lot of people coming through our program at UCLA, who might have the desire to be an entrepreneur, and to get into the technology field, by studying data science or cybersecurity. Bruce Huang: For example, let's say you are in data science. However, it's very difficult. million unfilled jobs.

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Interview with David Loo, CEO and Founder of Perspectium

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We're in the space, and leading the thought process on what needs to be combined, for example, CRM with ITSM tools, to create meaningful results that you can act on at the C-level. What's your biggest lesson you've learned as an entrepreneur? All of the big SaaS movement was causing this problem with business processes and data.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. Like they truly understood entrepreneurs. I want to invest in the best entrepreneurs in the country – regardless of where they’re located.”

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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We have many seasoned entrepreneurs who have built successful companies here and made a lot of money for investors and themselves. I like to repeat the mantra, “necessity is the mother of all invention,&# meaning that because investors have this expectation you find entrepreneurs that focus on nearer term monetization.

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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

But here is another example of a role that everyone carries in a startup, so investors can’t imagine paying anyone uniquely to do that job. Assigning them the title of CIO seems like a bit of overkill, especially these days of serious “cloud” computing, meaning big servers have left the building. Chief Information Officer.

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

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One of my friends, the CIO of a large healthcare system, did a study with Verizon of their facility, and found that there were 3 million SMS messages sent in a month. An example of this is you might be a physician at Cedars, but also be a physician at UCLA and a physician at St John''s. There''s no playbook for what we''re doing.

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

But here is another example of a role that everyone carries in a startup, so investors can’t imagine paying anyone uniquely to do that job. Assigning them the title of CIO seems like a bit of overkill, especially these days of serious “cloud” computing, meaning big servers have left the building. Chief Information Officer.

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