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Data Scientist Team Share Lessons Learned From Competition

Tech.Co

When you’re in a competition and on the spot, answering questions to industry experts can be a nerve-wrecking process. This competition required the team to answer “…questions on a Food and Nutrition data set that contained 28 features and 30,000+ rows.

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Interview with Asher Hunt, Overnight

socalTECH

If so, Los Angeles-based Overnight (www.joinovernight.com) is for you. Another impetus for this was I saw some of the slides that Mary Meeker had done in the Kleiner Perkins annual PDF that they send around, and I realized that the market was being underserved by Airbnb and other key players in the market. READ MORE>>.

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U.S. technology industry in jeopardy?

AeA Los Angeles Council

The complexity and speed by which new technology is being introduced puts the United States in a position of leadership, but our competitive slide is a serious issue. The AeA report cautions that if changes are not made in the U.S.’s We’re feeding off past success rather than investing in our future. Lee Fox, Founder KooDooZ, Inc.

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“Pull Management” vs. “Push Management” systems (v1.0)

CEO Flow

The brute force methods that used to work so well, such as “work harder,&# “hire more,&# “spend more&# aren’t true strategic or competitive advantages. Note that companies are not pull OR push…there would be a sliding scale (such as 70/30 push/pull). Anyone can work hard, hire people and raise more money.

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Story of a Startup Weekend Veteran | The Good, The Bad, and the UGLY!

Tech Zulu Event

A month ago, I participated in my first ever Startup Weekend event in Los Angeles, California in the co-working spaces at Coloft. I faced the same challenge not being able to form a team because most people joined the competition with friends that they had already planned on working with.

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Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010

SoCal CTO

Creating Incremental Strategic Value - Ask the Angels , June 17, 2010 We can easily overlook the level of demand pull when we are assessing strategic value. Just because a product has a patent, deep complexity and an obvious competitive advantage does not mean that it can fly by itself into the market. Delegate and automate.

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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Competition: Chegg (has raised $144 in debt and equity)—estimated by Steven Carpenter ( TechCrunch ) to be 10x more unique visitors than BookRenter (during peak book renting seasons) with nearly $140mm in revenues for 2010. -New Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher. Competitor: Slide.