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Fifty years of the internet

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Leonard Kleinrock is the Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. After we typed the first two letters from our computer room at UCLA, namely, “Lo” for “Login,” the network crashed. On the one hand, it has led to valuable services of great value.

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Stage 32: An Education Hub For Entertainment Industry Creatives

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LinkedIn is by far the world’s largest professional network with more than 380 million members in over 200 countries and territories. But it isn’t meeting the needs of everyone, leading to the creation of several sites positioning themselves as the go-to professional network for niche industries. Membership took off.

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TX Zhuo Talks About LA's Newest Venture Fund, Karlin Ventures

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Specifically, we look at digital media, healthcare IT, e-commerce, education technology and financial services. Over the past few months I've been building my networking, and we've done about a deal a month so far. I think the right team and network are very important, as is traction, validated by customers.

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How TenOneTen Ventures Is Investing In LA's Technology Future

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Both Waxman and Elbaz are serial entrepreneurs, with many successes under their belt (Elbaz with Applied Semantics, which he sold to Google, Waxman with such companies as Firefly Networks, SpotRunner, and PeoplePC). There''s Caltech, the Claremont Colleges, Harvey Mudd, UCLA. We have a lot of world class universities here.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA). on all the computers and established a network using Novell. Many MBAs took marketing courses but have never been on the front line of A/B testing, email campaigns or PR initiatives. I installed Windows 3.1 What you lose: 4.

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WESAWIT | Experience Events Through The Eyes of The Crowd

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Thibault Mathieu: Morgan and I were both in film school at UCLA. The app was mainly to educate people what was going on in the world. We were initially covering events like sports and arts festivals when we first launched a beta version of the WESAWIT app at UCLA. TB: Well we went to UCLA and loved the weather here!

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

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Alex serves on the Board of Directors for Logsdon School, a non-profit school providing educational services to students with special needs. Where: UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095. 8:30 – 9:30pm – cocktail reception and networking. Event Details. to 9:30 p.m. RSVP: AGENDA.