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Unusual Perk For SoCal Technology Firm: Unlimited, Paid Vacation

socalTECH

In what might be one of the more unusual perks for a Southern California high tech company, LRN , a developer of enterprise compliance and ethics software, has an unlimited, paid vacation policy. LRN--which is around the corner from UCLA--serves such customers as 3M, Dow, Johnson & Johnson, Loews, Pfizer and Siemens.

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Software Development Companies in Southern California

SoCal CTO

As part of doing that, I've had the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of different chief technical officers from different kinds of companies over those years. This is a private group of CTOs who are responsible for software development within their companies. or focused on industry or type of company.

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Why Silicon Valley and Hollywood Don’t Get Each Other and Who Will Win the Future

Both Sides of the Table

And investing in content companies won’t return money! You need to segment your audience and find a way to get your highest quality customers over to O&O (owned & operated) inventory where you can get higher CPMs, sell merchandise and capture more customer information. You can’t replace this stuff with Java.

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How The Right Employees Have An Innovation Advantage

Startup Professionals Musings

He outlines the attributes of the “entrepreneurs” or intrapreneurs in your organization, and how to lead them to make your company an innovator: Love to explore novel approaches and solutions. In every company, there are a few people who don’t like to follow the accepted way of doing things. Exhibit market awareness and a drive to win.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? VRM - his company - goal is to provide a Level 4 platform. PIM based on Java that would be up-to-date on all your devices. Server and client in Java. Java as a platform wasn't ready to deliver on client side. What kind of company do you represent?

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Entrepreneurs Don’t “Noodle” They Do

Both Sides of the Table

So he left and focused on starting companies. What astounded me when I switched from being a big company executive to being an entrepreneur was the sheer amount of decisions I had to make on a daily basis. Should you build in Ruby, Java or.NET? Within a week he had me a deck with a strategy for a new company.

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AT&T Mobile App Hackathon | Superheroes & Geeks, Only in Hollywood!

Tech Zulu Event

Developers were allowed to code in any language they were most comfortable with including Objective C, Java, Javascript, HTML, C #, Dot Net, and XNA. This in turn creates a supportive ecosystem for the entrepreneurial minds to create a company from vision to concept, if not that weekend, but in the near future.