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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. 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.

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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). As a result, I really saw Visalus as a technology company. I know all of that.

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How Cloudvirga Wants To Disrupt The Slow, Antiquated Mortgage Industry

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Because of that, it's very antiquated, both in terms of the process and the technology used. That's the problem�it's just so costly, expensive, and time consuming to produce a loan, yet the world of technology and automation is just an area the mortgage industry hasn't leveraged. It's just ridiculous. Why hasn't this been done before?

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Who Should you Hire at a Startup?

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And you can always bring on a senior person as a mentor / coach to help guide you personally to become a better sales leader until you’re ready for somebody more senior on your team. One such meeting that he set up was with the CIO of the largest consumer products company in Europe. Now was time to bring in some process.

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