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How Savvy Companies Leverage Brand, Technology and IP Licensing to Leap Ahead of The Competition

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, July 20, 2010 -- How Savvy Companies Leverage Brand, Technology and IP Licensing to Leap Ahead of The Competition. See [link] (more).

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USC Launches Annual, $50K Entrepreneurship Prize For Engineers

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The University of Southern California and wealthy engineer Fariborz Maseeh , now a hedge fund manager in Newport Beach, is announcing this week a $1M endowment, which will fund an annual, $50,000 prize for a business plan competition for the school's engineering students. affiliated event focused on spreading innovative ideas. READ MORE>>.

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Would the Last Blackberry User Please Turn Out the Lights? I Already Left the Building

Both Sides of the Table

I didn’t get my first one – believe it or not – until 2010. Where Mark Zuckerberg always seems paranoid about competition and industry change – they seemed oblivious to it. And as market enthusiasts we all want strong competition. I was jealous watching all my friends surf the web on their iPhones.

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Interview with John Maffei, Xfire, On 17 Million Users, Plans

socalTECH

In 2009/2010, I joined the team which had been building out the Titan platform, with the idea that the competitive gaming model was very attractive. The competitive/skilled gaming model is where players compete in games for points, items, and sometimes for cash. Fortunately for us, we've brought that credibility to the table.

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Fixing Tech’s Gender Problem Starts With Company Culture

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One of these bright lights is Santa Barbara-based HG Data - developers of the world's largest competitive-intelligence database. <Note: Thus, it's hardly surprising that in 2010, women earned only 18% of all computer science degrees. For Harris, the race to gender parity is ongoing. “In

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

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The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). But the biggest changes in our industry have been driven by technical changes themselves to which we are just observers and fortunate beneficiaries. We’re all socially connected (so great businesses spread faster).