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With New Program, DARPA To Encourage Safety “Brakes” For Gene Editing

Xconomy

“We should couple innovation with biosecurity,” DARPA program manager Renee Wegrzyn, said Tuesday at the SynBioBeta conference in South San Francisco. ” At the conference, FBI supervisory special agent Ed You told the audience the bureau is aware of the need for new biosecurity measures.

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Interview with Jonathan Lehmann and James Chung, KarmaGoat

socalTECH

We were invited in March to the Harvard Social Enterprise Conference to present. James Chung: My previous background is in software engineering. There were lots of people very intent on the execution of the product, really looking into the details of design and flow. It has been really amazing.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Irony, hey?).

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

It’s a very smartly designed debenture program. LA has the annual Monty Conference. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. There are two reasons you need local capital. I’ve seen it work in Boulder with DeFrag and Gluecon.

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

socalTECH

Running on a Dell pizza box, we can run 20 times as many calls as other software, giving us the lowest cost basis in the industry. Our major designer was the number two guy on the Lucent 5E development program, so we understand how to design scalability into telecom apps, and scale seamlessly, better than our competitors.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. ”).

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

Tech Zulu Event

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. . Essayist, programmer, and programming language designer. Bambi Francisco. gigaom.com. . Paul Grahm.