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Interview with Bruce Huang, UCLA Silicon Beach Innovation Lab

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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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Interview with Adi Jaffe, All About Addiction

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Investors and universities are often very eager to figure out how to tap into those universities as a source of new companies, but often find its difficult to move research from the lab to an actual company. Adi Jaffe: I'm a UCLA addiction trained psychologist, specializing in addiction. First, what is All About Addiction about?

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Innovation and Geography

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Ive personally been involved in the start-up world in Los Angeles for about 15 years, and have had the opportunity to work on many early-stage companies (e.g., Some events, like a recent Tech Coast Angel event at UCLA are really worth it. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO. It has to be a pretty good event for it to be worth attending.

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Challenge of Predicting Winners

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At the same time, when I saw an old colleague at an event at UCLA a few weeks back, we both were discussing how hard we felt it was to predict success in this kind of venture. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo.

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