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FrameWorks Workshop: Valuation

SoCal Tech Calendar

Through a series of real world case studies and interactive group discussion, this workshop will discuss how valuation relates to intellectual property in licensing, manufacturing and MandA transactions. Thursday, January 10, 2013 -- Corporate Valuations. See [link] (more)

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Movio wants to make your marketing videos with generative AI

TechCrunch LA

One of them is Movio , a two-year-old startup leveraging generative AI along with other machine learning frameworks like GAN to make videos featuring talking human avatars. It has so far raised around $9 million in funding from investors including IDG, Sequoia Capital China and, most recently, Baidu Ventures.

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

Both Sides of the Table

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. Reading it felt like read a university book for an economics class and no wonder since he’s a professor at Harvard Business School.

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Interview with Michael Witz, Mob Science

socalTECH

We had a little success with Coffee Bar, Magic Mall, and Sony's Infinite Anarchy, and those games keep getting better and we kept learning about the framework, and added more talent to our team. That's really the primary purpose, to put more capital behind our development and give this game every opportunity it can to be successful.

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Human Capital: Moving away from ‘master/slave’ terminology

TechCrunch LA

Welcome back to Human Capital, where we explore some of the latest news in labor, diversity and inclusion in tech. Human Capital will soon be available as a weekly newsletter. When racism is built into the technical framework of a company, it perpetuates a false idea that white people are superior to Black people. .

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

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. I also know many people who never studied business as an undergrad who appreciated the knowledge that they gained as an MBA. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. The Yin and Yang of Product and Engineering - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 22, 2010 For a tech company, product and engineering are the heart and soul of the business. Tesla is not.

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