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Symwave Names Manian As Advisor

socalTECH

Symwave said that Manian joins Dell CTO Kevin Kettler, Best Buy's Brian Chubboy, and Intel VP Gil Frostig on its advisory group. Symwave is venture backed by Kodiak Venture Partners and CMEA Ventures, and is developing low power, high speed PHYs and analog front end ICs for the networking and communications market.

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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shec.

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How Amavitae Wants To Help Youth Find A Career They'll Love

socalTECH

There's a big disconnect between their education and employment. Since then, I have worked extensively with mentoring youth, and helping them figure out what's possible in terms of careers. We have live connections to every federally registered apprenticeships, every accredited university and educational institution by zip code.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. The program itself is incredibly daunting initially, but it was really valuable for us, especially as an educational experience. We have some great mentors now. Fourth, is all the friends we've made.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

Both Sides of the Table

You’re sales person is getting blocked by the CTO who says she shouldn’t go above him but the CTO isn’t approving the deal. Yes, I know it’s my job as the CEO to be the coach for people and that’s fine. There’s a guy in Los Angeles that I met at several tech networking events.

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MuckerLab Unveils Second Graduating Class to Investors

Tech Zulu Event

The co-founder core team, including a CTO, should be fully formed and passionate enough to be working on the project full time. The Blayze network already reaches or 200 million viewers and has generated thousands in sales. There is no right answer many times, just gut instincts and educated guesses. Founded by L.A.’s

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myLINGO | Connecting Non-English Speakers with the Movies

Tech Zulu Event

We did a lot of investigative research — cold calling executives in Hollywood through networks at Harvard and networks through Johns Hopkins, the school where my brother graduated from. We will need to keep on figuring out how to educate our consumer. We also have Chris Cookson as a technical advisor. Entertainment.

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