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Serious Games for Simulation, Education and the Enterprise

SoCal Tech Calendar

Saturday, January 12, 2013 -- Serious Games for Simulation, Education and the Enterprise. Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. ?Game,? Likewise, a wide variety of tasks, from corporate training to childhood education, have been variously recast in a "game" context with dimensions and purposes quite beyond simple "fun and entertainment."

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Successful Acquisition Integration

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 -- Caltech Executive Education: Successful Acquisition Integration. Watson, former worldwide director of new platform development for Eastman Chemical. Topics include MandA conception, planning, the first 100 days post-merger/acquisition, IP, ongoing improvement. See [link] (more).

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. Alex Benzer: I'm actually building two startups. We have some great mentors now.

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

Tech Zulu Event

In 1991, Bill started Knowledge Adventure, an educational software publisher that grew to be the third largest educational software publisher in the world and was eventually sold to Cendant Software and is now a division of Havas Interactive, which is owned by Vivendi. Where: CalTech 1200 E California Blvd Pasadena, CA 91125.

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How TenOneTen Ventures Is Investing In LA's Technology Future

socalTECH

We also did a company in Northern California, Weoutta, which is a consumer app for making future plans, which is built on top of a pretty robust data platform. Healthcare is a really obvious vertical, where there is data inefficiency and a tremendous amount of opportunity, but there''s also education, human capital and talent.

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

Tech Zulu Event

a perks platform for small medium businesses. After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. Sangster lives in Los Angeles and is actively involved in improving early childhood education. Event Details.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

It became a theme in my keynote at Caltech on the future of social networking. Although both parents are educators, his father a professor and his mother the Commissioner of Education in Connecticut, they did not teach him business. Leverage a feedback platform like Get Satisfaction or UserVoice.

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