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Interview with Bruce Huang, UCLA Silicon Beach Innovation Lab

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For example, we have people currently working in video and film production, who want to get into coding, who want to become a web developer, and who want to become cybersecurity professionals. Bruce Huang: For example, let's say you are in data science. So students will be working on projects with these companies?

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Want to Start a Technology Company in LA?

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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. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company in LA. Commuting - The freeways here are legendary for traffic. Zorik Gordon is tearing it up at ReachLocal.

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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Let me use LA as an example. Douglas Merrill, the former CIO of Google, is building his next company, ZestCash in LA. So can you really build a great tech firm outside of Silicon Valley? Sure, but it will be different than the Bay Area ones. Los Angeles. I live in the city of Santa Monica. Brett Brewer has AdKnowledge.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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Let my try those for Los Angeles as an example: Second largest city in America with 13 million people. ZestCash, founded by Douglas Merrill, former CIO of Google [Hollywood]. The first rule of choosing a brand for anything is to figure out the image you want to project.

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Taming The Enterprise Texting Tiger, With TigerText's Brad Brooks

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One of my friends, the CIO of a large healthcare system, did a study with Verizon of their facility, and found that there were 3 million SMS messages sent in a month. An example of this is you might be a physician at Cedars, but also be a physician at UCLA and a physician at St John''s.

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Appallicious & the Age of Open Data

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The Appallicious Rec & Park app is just one example of the good that can come from the utilization of government data. The platform is also being used by SFArts and the San Francisco Department of Public Health to create useful tools for the public using open data—stay tuned for these new apps which are due out later this year.

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10 C-Level Positions That Are Red Flags For Funding

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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. Assigning them the title of CIO seems like a bit of overkill, especially these days of serious “cloud” computing, meaning big servers have left the building. Chief Information Officer.

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