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CLU's Gerhard Apfelthaler: What I Learned In 2014

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The Center is designed to be a hub for the start-up community along the Westlake Village  Thousand Oaks corridor. What technologies or things are you looking forward to most in 2015? As an educator, I am looking forward to innovations in online learning. gerhard apfelthaler education incubator' READ MORE>>.

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An Unlikely Unicorn: Lynda.com’s Journey From Garage To $1.3B Sale

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In 2015, LinkedIn purchased Lynda.com for $1.5 Like a true entrepreneur, even though she was young, she took control of her life and pursued an alternative education. Bruce also experienced a challenging time at school, struggling with the limitations of a 1970’s public school education which emphasized conformity over creativity. [3:27]

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Meet the 2017 Startups from the Disney Accelerator

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What you might not realize is that the adorable droid was the brain child of Sphero, a robotics and digital technology company and an alumni to the Disney Accelerator program. The BB-8 app-enabled Droid had such a global adoption among kids and adults that it was named the number one Star Wars toy of 2015. Epic Games.

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OK, So Maybe Not ALL MBA Entrepreneurs Are Oxymorons

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Ventures In Which An MBA Education Is A Plus. MBA’s are trained to design, organize and manage such large-scale, complicated operations. billion from 2010-2015. A nice way of saying they can be arrogant mercenaries. “When M.B.A.’s ’s come to us, we have to fundamentally retrain them.

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3 Things You (Probably) Don’t Know about Indiana Innovation

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In fact, they led the way for the state’s GDP growth of 3 percent in the fourth quarter of 2015, which was the highest in the nation , according to the U.S. When doctors implant devices to replace a patient’s missing bones or support damaged bones, those devices were probably designed, developed, and/or manufactured in Warsaw.

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Fuel50: Helping Employees Figure Out Their Career Path, With Anne Fulton

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com) � backed by local investors Rincon Venture Partners and Bonfire Ventures�is helping to solve that problem, with its career pathing software designed for helping employees at large enterprises figure out what's next. Anne Fulton: Fuel50 is a career pathing startup, part of the HR technology landscape. What is Fuel50?

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Kids Can Camp Online at “Summer of Minecraft”

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Beloved by children and parents alike, the game has been lauded and awarded by education groups for teaching STEM and code skills while encouraging social collaboration. The co-founders Mimi Ito, Katie Salen and Tara Tiger Brown share a history of formal academic research around childhood play and technology.