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Tortuga Logic, Co-Founded By UCSD, UCSB Profs, Raises $2M For Hardware Security

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Jonathan Valamehr, Professor Ryan Kastner of UC San Diego, and Professor Tim Sherwood of UC Santa Barbara, and is developing technology which is used to detect security issues in hardware designs, rather than the current method of laborious code reviews and software tests for security issues.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

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I was graduated with a double degree in economics & political science from UCSD in 1991. I was 23 and had been programming computers, designing computer networks and selling software for 10 years. My colleagues that graduated with engineering degrees from UCSD were paid $31,000 – 15% more. ” or. ” or.

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The Importance of The Narrative

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I went to undergrad at UCSD, which is not a place known for its Greek institutions and my father grew up in South America and had know idea what a fraternity was. It was factual, short and designed to show that I had done all of the requisite jobs. Easy peasy. Gregory was into theater. He understood how to create emotional responses.

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

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billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with. Codeita lets you design, code, and publish all from a cloud-based LAMP development environment.

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On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness

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“Imagine you were a Phd wireless chip designer out of UCSD and then Qualcomm. Are you looking for a Phd wireless chip designer?&#. What results must you have in order to raise venture capital or garner good press coverage that helps drive customer acquisition (and also more funding!)? He is still not sure.

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