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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons.&#. I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. MBA fine, but not required.

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

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I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. I was graduated with a double degree in economics & political science from UCSD in 1991. My starting salary was $27,000.

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Version 0.9. What Do You Think?

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Like a startup we took a very “version 0.9” What do you think of the design elements? When commenting please state if you have specific skills in visual design, copy or similar. When commenting please state if you have specific skills in visual design, copy or similar. scrolling top banner - I'll start by slowing it down.

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Todd Hylton Adds Neural Tech Expertise to UCSD Robotics Institute

Xconomy

a Qualcomm-backed startup founded in 2009 to develop computer systems and software based on algorithms that emulate the “spiking neuron” processes of the human brain. in 2012, Hylton led a team that developed BrainOS, software technology designed to enable robotic systems to adapt to their environments and learn from humans.

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The Importance of The Narrative

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I went to undergrad at UCSD, which is not a place known for its Greek institutions and my father grew up in South America and had know idea what a fraternity was. I started off by running some lower-level roles like community service. It was factual, short and designed to show that I had done all of the requisite jobs.

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Biolinq Adds $4.75M to Advance Glucose Monitoring Biosensor Patch

Xconomy

Biosensor startup Biolinq said Thursday it has raised $4.75 Founders Jared Tagney and Joshua Windmiller, who met while in grad school at UC San Diego, started the company in 2012 as Electrozyme. The San Diego startup. The company began focusing on the technology it is currently developing in 2015, Tagney said.

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The Next Internet: Usability Guru Don Norman Calls for Starting Over

Xconomy

No one has done more than Donald Norman to teach us that every piece of hardware and software—in fact, every human-made object, including the internet—embodies design decisions that aren’t always made with the best interests of users in mind. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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