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Entity Academy, an edtech startup that trains, mentors and places women in tech roles, secures $100M

TechCrunch LA

Women have made great inroads into the tech world in recent years, but there remains a long way to go before we reach a truly equitable state of affairs in workforce numbers, remuneration and product development. The financing will be used to help students finance their Entity Academy tuition, which typically costs $15,000.

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The Power Combo of A.I. Devices with Cloudlets Comes with Cyber Risks

Xconomy

First, entrepreneurs vying to invent self-driving vehicles, virtual assistants, and intelligent industrial machines created a hunger for more powerful semiconductors that could enable scattered devices to take over sophisticated calculations powered by artificial intelligence software.

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Eight Repeat Entrepreneurs To Watch In SoCal

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Demand Media / Richard Rosenblatt / Los Angeles - Rosenblatt's last big win: MySpace, where he was Chairman, brokering its sale to News Corp. Getting lots of notice--and controversy--at Demand Media for its use of writers to create content specifically to attract web traffic. Let us know in the comments below!).

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What Tech Entrepreneurs Could Learn from Chamillionaire

Both Sides of the Table

So it was my great pleasure to host Chamillionaire on This Week in VC this week talking marketing, entrepreneurship, old media and, of course, music. He wanted to create awareness for himself to generate marketing buzz and demand and then get the retail stores to pay wholesales prices for his cds. He created demand.

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If You Don’t Have a Discrete Hypothesis You Are Incapable of Failing

Both Sides of the Table

I interviewed Eric for an hour for - This Week in Venture Capital. 57: 00 How do you rectify company mission and customer demand. 1:05:35 Middle class job of the next generation: software development! ” This week was no exception. 46:50 Engines of Growth. 48:30 Vanity metrics. 52:00 Actionable metrics.

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We Create Demand for California's Technology Companies. Murano Software (www.muranosoft.com). Your Software Development Partner. LAVA: Meet the VC's - November 17th - What do you think a technology or life science entrepreneur would give to spend two hours with more than 30 venture capitalists?