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Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Need High-Tech Partners

Startup Professionals Musings

Technology is so key to every business these days that experienced business-smart but non-tech entrepreneurs are falling deeper and deeper in the hole. Should they go after high-tech nerds for partners, or professional technologists? Martin Zwilling First published on Entrepreneur.com on 8/8/2014. Are you there?

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CLU's Gerhard Apfelthaler: What I Learned In 2014

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We''re continuing to feature reflections on the last year from movers and shakers in the local high tech community, and today have thoughts from Gerhard Apfelthaler , who is Dean of California Lutheran University''s School of Management , which has been very active in Ventura County helping to promote startup and entrepreneurial activity.

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Tinder Names Jim Lanzone As New CEO

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Match Group , the parent company of Los Angeles-based online dating app developer Tinder , said on Monday that it has named Jim Lanzone--former President and CEO of CBS Interactive, and also Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Benchmark Capital--as CEO of Tinder. He also has been on the board of Los Angeles-based Edmunds.com since 2014.

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What I Learned in 2014: Kevin Winston

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Over the last couple of weeks, we''ve featured a number of reflections on the year from movers and shakers in the local high tech community. As founder of Digital LA, I run one to two tech events every week bringing together tech, startups, investors, Hollywood, developers designers, and more. READ MORE>>'

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

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If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. ” It’s the most common refrain I hear from investors and even entrepreneurs these days. They estimate that high-tech work contributes $108.3 billion dollars of regional GDP.

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STEAM Carnival's Education Combines Robots, Lasers, Cotton Candy

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In the case of a new effort by Two Bit Circus, the think tank of Brent Bushnell, you get the STEAM Carnival , a traveling, high-tech project aimed at using "robotics, lasers, acrobatics, and cotton candy" to rethink STEM education. The group hopes to start a tour starting in Spring 2014 if it reaches its goals. READ MORE>>.

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San Diego Innovation Economy Extended Gains in 2015: Connect Report

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While that was down from the 449 local startups created in 2014, it is the third consecutive year that more than 400 startups were formed here—a pace that is well beyond the 301 startups per year average over the previous eight years.