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What Mattered in 2012: Howard Marks, StartEngine

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For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. 2012 has been a remarkably interesting year in terms of developments in technology. You have to listen to your consumers and customers. It was a big year for us.

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Happy Customers Make Gender Bias (Nearly) Irrelevant

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A 2012 Dow Jones'' report entitled Women At The Wheel encompassed 15-years of data on venture-backed startups. In a similar vein, a 2012 study by the Kauffman Foundation noted that women account for only 10% of all the founders of high-tech startups. During the period studied, only "1.3% What Gives? Share and Enjoy.

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Realizing Value from Innovation

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Thursday, January 26, 2012 -- Realizing Value from Innovation. However, while most high tech, biotech, cleantech and sports companies have wonderful technologies, relatively few have good business models. To translate innovation into real value, you need both great technology and a great business model. See [link] (more)

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Nine Startup Tips From Michael Dell

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According to a January 2012 article in Forbes Magazine , nearly 16% of the 400 most affluent Americans do not have a college degree. But it's also about operations and customer relationships." Along with Amazon, Dell was also an early pioneer of web-based customer service. We Don't Need No Stinkin' Degrees. "As

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Storage worries

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In the 1980s, high-tech companies stored information about their customers on their sophisticated and high-cost computer equipment. Thirty years later, it's so commonplace that there are numerous services to store customer data for you "in the cloud.".

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