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WESAWIT | Experience Events Through The Eyes of The Crowd

Tech Zulu Event

Thibault Mathieu: Morgan and I were both in film school at UCLA. We were initially covering events like sports and arts festivals when we first launched a beta version of the WESAWIT app at UCLA. We sent out a lot of emails and showed them a lot of visuals of what we can do. TechZulu: So where did WESAWIT originate from?

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

Tech Zulu Event

Many thanks to everyone who participated in last night’s Spotlight: LA Tech at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

Tech Zulu Event

Many thanks to everyone who participated in last night’s Spotlight: LA Tech at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management. In addition, Howard Marks unveiled Start Engine , a new LA incubator focused on helping entrepreneurs become successful in 90 days. VP, Strategic Planning at Disney Interactive Media Group.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA). I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions. I tell people regularly that I only invest in companies where the DNA is software.

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

Tech Zulu Event

The final showoff's have been selected, so that brings the count to a total of 10 showoff's plus a wild card from the demo night at UCLA (full list of showoff's below). Quilici received a PhD in computer science from UCLA, and from 1991-1999 was a faculty member at the University of Hawaii. . Founder and senior writer for GigaOm.

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

Tech Zulu Event

OrganicStartup incubates and accelerates innovative ventures by providing them with strategic early-stage investment, advisory, and operational assistance. Where: UCLA Anderson School of Management, 110 Westwood Plaza, Los Angeles, CA 90095. Dinesh earned his B.S. in Computer Science and his MBA from UC Irvine. Event Details.