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Founder of RYSE UP, NearWoo Jason Crilly Passes Away

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Crilly had most recently been the CTO of RYSE UP, a startup in Los Angeles which calls itself the "American Idol for Mobile", which e co-founded with Nathan Chandra. He previously was the co-founder of NearWoo (previously known as PageWoo), a Santa Monica startup developer of mobile advertising software for local businesses.

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Silicon Beach Fest | Panels, Hackathons, and Much More!

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Ken Chung, Viddy , CTO. Darren Rush, Pose , CTO. The first ever Silicon Beach Hackathon will commence at 6pm at Cross Campus featuring CTO coaches from some of the top companies in LA. Come join us and get some work done over at Coloft in Santa Monica. Jason Nazar, DocStoc , CEO / Co-Founder. Register Here.

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Value and Meetups - SEO / SEM

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Then the organizer went into a 20 minute sales pitch around his new training/coaching offering. I'm hoping to figure out a way to spark a meet-up around SEO / SEM in Santa Monica / West Los Angeles / South Bay. It felt like a bad time share presentation. It's unfortunate that this event is going the way it is.

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

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Since then, I have worked extensively with mentoring youth, and helping them figure out what's possible in terms of careers. Then, we found the most amazing data scientist, who was initially an advisor, who was the founder of the AI Journal, and was at NASA, and taught at Stanford and USC.

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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

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Friday evening, August 19th, rolled around and Startup Weekend LA was underway with attendees showing up at Coloft in Santa Monica around 6:00 pm and the classic Idealab keg there to quench everyone’s thirst. Guests, visitors and teams mingled away enjoying appetizers and snacks along with this LASW’s 3rd keg. Rob Maigret.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

I then worked as a product manager at NetZero/United Online in the VOIP group, and then most recently at Google as a product manager on the Picasa/Photos team based in Santa Monica. Tell Rod about the LA CTO Forum. What are you working on now? I know you are still in stealth, but what can you tell us.

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Interview with Gregg Champion, OneCubicle

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Our interview today is with Santa Monica-based OneCubicle (www.onecubicle.com), a new startup we ran across recently, which is looking to provide a more professional social networking site for younger people. You can also use the service to network to your next job. In short, we want to be the bridge between Facebook and LinkedIn.