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UCLA DEV Contest Proves Grand Ideas & Teamwork are Essential to LA Tech

Tech Zulu Event

With software developed, tested and turned in, the results of UCLA Anderson School of Management’s DEV Contest were announced on Sunday afternoon to a room full of smiling faces. Obviously these folks were serious about winning this competition, and had no time to worry about who the guy taking pictures with his iPhone.

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Interview with Dan Yomtobian, Scour

socalTECH

Dan Yomtobian: Scour is a social search engine, which meta searches Google, Yahoo, and MSN. We overlay our own algorithm and decide what listing to show, in what order, based on how Google, Yahoo, and MSN spit back data to us. It seems like you'd be somewhat competitive to what they do. What is Scour?

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

Both Sides of the Table

and the subsequent acquisition sprees of companies like Google, Yahoo!, That died with waterfall software development. What about your competition – how much do they charge? People mistook extra doses of Ajax for a successful product. Cisco and others went out to fill out their Web 2.0 portfolios.

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myfab5 Wanst to Reinvent The Way You Find Food | Interview With Co-Founder Calvin Schemanski

Tech Zulu Event

Omeid Seirafi-Pour is the CEO and Domain Expertise, John Gulbronson is the CTO or Software Developer and I am Calvin Schemanski, the CMO or 2-Time Entrepreneur. Any competition? We are currently using funding from Omeid, grants from the state of Michigan and the University of Michigan and prizes from pitch competitions.

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

Tech Zulu Event

Co-founder and lead software developer Anil Kumar was a led software engineer for WebEx. Our client software is a true browser plug-in (no Flash) that’s based on Google’s WebRTC open source project. How unique are you from the competition if you have any? What inspired you to come up with the idea?

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Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

socalTECH

Jetty is used in everything from Eclipse programming environments to a number of commercial application servers out there, to open source projects like Hadoop, the highly sponsored project from Yahoo which showed the fasting sorting of terabyte of random information recently. We also work with Google's App Engine and widget toolkit.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

Entrepreneurism / Monetization design, Recruiting, Software development. . Meg Garlinghouse, Yahoo! Collaboration Over Competition: Competitors as Business Partners. Entrepreneurism / Monetization competition, ecommerce, small business. . Poornima Vijayashanker, BizeeBee. Jules Pieri, Daily Grommet.

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