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Bringing The Benefit Of Managed Cloud To Enterprises, With Metacloud

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CIOs are wondering if they should jump in, wait for production, or wait for things to mature. That allow enterprise CIOs to jump into OpenStack head first. What is pushing those CIOs to consider private clouds? A good example of that is Ceph. Not only will it cost you less, you''ll get a higher value.

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Interview with Bruce Huang, UCLA Silicon Beach Innovation Lab

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I go to lots of events in Los Angeles, and there are many entrepreneurs who want to start companies, are bootstrapping, and everyone has a great idea and is figuring out how to launch their products and launch their startup. Bruce Huang: For example, let's say you are in data science. million unfilled jobs. Bruce Huang: Correct.

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How ZestFinance Is Using Machine Learning to Reshape Lending, with Jay Budzik

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One Los Angeles company, ZestFinance (www.zestfinance.com), has been working in this area for a few years. Jay Budzik: ZestFinance was founded in 2009, by Douglas Merrill, the former CIO at Google, in order to make fair and transparent credit available to everyone. What does ZestFinance do?

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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. But here is another example of a role that everyone carries in a startup, so investors can’t imagine paying anyone uniquely to do that job. Chief Human Resources Officer (VP Personnel).

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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Brad Feld visited Los Angeles this past week. ” Many people on the Westside of Los Angeles are using the term Silicon Beach these days to describe the amazing renaissance that is truly happening here. Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. downtown LA].

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10 Job Titles Never Found in an Investable Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

VCs and Angel investors like to see a startup that is running lean and mean, with no more than three or four of the conventional C-level or VP titles. But here is another example of a role that everyone carries in a startup, so investors can’t imagine paying anyone uniquely to do that job. Chief Human Resources Officer (VP Personnel).

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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Los Angeles. I believe you can attract people to relocate to Los Angeles but it’s likely that they’ll come from locations other than Northern California. My commute, for example, from Santa Monica to Century City is less than 15 minutes each way and I never have to take the freeway.

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