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7 Rules For Innovations That Produce Dominant Players

Startup Professionals Musings

Hoffman should know, as an icon in the Silicon Valley, having educated and trained hundreds of startup founders as the CEO of “ Founders Space ,” designated by Inc.com as one of the top ten incubators and accelerators in the world. Lock in customers with loyalty and high cost of change.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

Tech Zulu Event

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. He received a B.S.

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10 Ways for Startups to Expand Their Reach in 2012

Startup Professionals Musings

By utilizing economies of scale, location, and common design, you may be able to provide a better solution faster for a lower cost. They know you and your brand, so this should minimize your customer acquisition cost for the new product. New products or services to existing customers. Extrapolate the technology you already know.

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Ten Ways for an Entrepreneur to Expand His Reach

Startup Professionals Musings

By utilizing economies of scale, location, and common design, you may be able to provide a better solution faster for a lower cost. They know you and your brand, so this should minimize your customer acquisition cost for the new product. New products or services to existing customers. Extrapolate the technology you already know.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

Tech Zulu Event

A serial Internet entrepreneur, Mike has founded and sold numerous businesses, including agency PBJ Digital, application platform Userplane, which he led from startup to its acquisition by AOL, Tsavo Media and Myspace. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S. Navy, Pfizer, & Unisys Corp.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

Tech Zulu Event

In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. I took a job in corporate finance as an intern my junior year at First Interstate Bank and I did system design on the side, as my main job was corporate planning.

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