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Why Silicon Valley and Hollywood Don’t Get Each Other and Who Will Win the Future

Both Sides of the Table

You can’t replace this stuff with Java. And you still have no idea if you will accidentally become Pinterest or if your $41 million will produce a Waterworld. It requires writers, actors, film crews, lighting, costume & set designs, make-up artists, post production, sound, editors and so on. Think about.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

NEA No one owns it Everyone can use it Anyone can improve it Introduces (adds to Levels above) idea of Level 4 Platform In his mind, the key ingredient is that the there needs to be multiple platform service providers. PIM based on Java that would be up-to-date on all your devices. Server and client in Java.

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How The Right Employees Have An Innovation Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

We see the stories of young founders leaving college with a big idea, going to work in their garage, and building something that changes the world. Later renamed Java, it now runs a world of devices. Conventional business wisdom tells us that entrepreneurs are today’s main source of innovation.

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Interview: Clark Benson of Founder & CEO of Ranker.com - Dicusses Playing Nice With Google

InfoChachkie

If someone is investing in me and my idea, I simply don’t want to let them down. It is always great to quickly raise money with your idea, but far more often than not, it’s a long haul (of) relationship building with investors. I am looking for Java developers and database experts. I do everything I do all in or nothing.

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Entrepreneurs Don’t “Noodle” They Do

Both Sides of the Table

Should you build in Ruby, Java or.NET? Is venture debt a good idea? If you’ve been “thinking about doing something&# for a long time and batting this idea around with your favorite VC for six months to a year, don’t be surprised if they’re not prepared to back you in the end.

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Interview with Clark Benson, Ranker

socalTECH

I also like the power of semantic data on the web, and the idea of linked data, so that you can really extract a lot of meaningful data and value from facts or opinions in a linked way. The idea was to allow people to list and rank items, and use that to generate meaningful value as a recommendation engine.

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How Connectifier Is Applying Search Technology To Recruiting, With John Jersin

socalTECH

That's the idea behind Connectifier (www.connectifier.com), an Orange County-based startup led by John Jersin --whose founders and many of its employees have come from Google, Amazon, and other companies where search is a part of their DNA. What if searching for people to recruit to your company was as easy as running a search in Google?