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What I Learned in 2014: Kevin Winston

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My most significant event of 2014 is definitely Silicon Beach Fest, the multi-day tech community fest, which just keeps getting bigger. Silicon Beach Fest 2014 attracted more than 2,000 attendees, with more than 350 speakers, of which more than one third were women. What was your biggest lesson learned this year?

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Let’s Get Weird, a SXSW Interactive Recap (2014)

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To cap off our 6th year at SXSW and follow up on last year’s amazingly successful Trend Lounge , we knew this year had to be bigger, better, more engaging, and of course, even more fun. The post Let’s Get Weird, a SXSW Interactive Recap (2014) appeared first on TechZulu. Our personal favorites? SXSF (Shaq by Shaq Fu).

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Udacity Achieves 50,000 Nanodegree Grads Amid Company Reorganization

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Launched four years ago, the Nanodegree courses allow students worldwide to gain expertise in areas such as data analytics, machine learning, and autonomous flight engineering by completing coursework that can take as little as six months.

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Google partners with Sony Pictures Imageworks to launch an open source VFX render manager

TechCrunch LA

Google, of course, is interested in bringing these workloads to its cloud and it has made a concerted effort to bring the Hollywood studios to its Cloud Platform. That includes the launch of its Los Angeles cloud region last year, as well as its acquisition of the Zync cloud renderer back in 2014.

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Glossier just laid off one-third of its corporate employees, mostly in tech

TechCrunch LA

Founded in 2014, Glossier is widely touted as one of the earliest breakout successes of the DTC model, and raised its Series E last July at a $1.8 The company built its own point-of-sale system and commerce APIs in-house, allowing them to deliver a “seamless” customer experience, former Glossier CTO Bryan Mahoney said in 2018.

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How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day

Both Sides of the Table

” So it’s now March 2014 – 5 years since I started investing. Here is the first 3 months of 2014 … . How is my scorecard looking?

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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” in 2014 the data seems pretty conclusive because LA has now become the fastest growing tech startup region by numbers of companies being started and those of us here have noticed this pace accelerating. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. acquired Overture for $1.63