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UCLA DEV Contest Proves Grand Ideas & Teamwork are Essential to LA Tech

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Obviously these folks were serious about winning this competition, and had no time to worry about who the guy taking pictures with his iPhone. I walked the entirety of the first floor before coming across a friendly face emerging from the kitchen at ROC who directed me to the third floor to find one of the event organizers, Calvin Ho.

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How YP Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at AT&T Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. We run hackathons, have free food, and run fun events.

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How YP.com Is Growing A Giant Tech Team In Glendale

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I had also spent five years at Overture and Yahoo, going back to the Goto.com days. I was recruited for the role when we were still at ATT Interactive in October of 2008, by some of my former coworkers at Yahoo, who had already landed here. Much of it is the relationship effect, and because of a lot of people deep in the organization.

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Interview with John Nahm, PhoneVite

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John Nahm: Phonevite is a community-based, voice broadcasting service, which allows the "average joe" -- or any small organization -- to send event reminders, emergency alerts, or any kind of group communications out over the phone. Dialpad was acquired by Yahoo in 2005, and became the voice engine for Yahoo's VoIP services.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

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He has grown our US operations from 1 employee (him) to a global organization of 75 employees that will finish the year with 8-digit revenues (90+% recurring) and more than 350% year-over-year growth. I am on a board that does business with Yahoo! Rob is one of the most driven and successful CEOs I work with.

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myfab5 Wanst to Reinvent The Way You Find Food | Interview With Co-Founder Calvin Schemanski

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For example, in Ann Arbor , the number one place for pizza is also number one for deep-dish pizza and cheesy bread, while the number four place for pizza is number one for thin crust pizza and organic food. Any competition? FourSquare and Ness, and smaller players like Everplaces and Forkly. Any funding raised?

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Grokker Wants to Help You Cook, Keep Fit and Meditate

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Today, Grokker.com, the community driven content network offering has 3500 plus high quality, expert-led videos for yoga, fitness and cooking too make it easy and enjoyable for enthusiasts to discover valuable content and seamlessly organize and share choice topics, experts and opinions with a larger like-minded community.

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