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Interview with Jonathan Simkin, SwoopThat

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The two main programmers also graduated in May of 2010 from Harvey Mudd College, and the fourth person on our team recently graduated from UCSD law school. Jonathan Simkin: We're all recent graduates. I graduated in May of 2010. We all shared the same frustration, which is buying textbooks just sucks.

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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

Both Sides of the Table

I have long advised startup companies that if you don’t control your messaging somebody else will and your potential customers will form impressions of you shaped by somebody else or by nobody at all. I was graduated with a double degree in economics & political science from UCSD in 1991.

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Interview with Marc Friedmann, SciVee

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What's the story behind the company--I understand this started at UCSD? The software is very solid, there have been no issues or downtime, and we're still actually operating out of the UCSD campus, at the San Diego Supercomputing Center. Can you talk about your deal with Thomson and who your typical customers would be?

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Interview with Aaron Crayford, Rippol

socalTECH

We created a lot of technology around making really cheap, and really effective streaming HD video, solving lots of problems where distance was involved, and allowing our customers to stream a huge amount of HD video without any quality loss. Before that, I was a student researcher as San Diego Sate University and a UCSD student.

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Mushroom Networks Ships T1 Replacement Technology

socalTECH

The firm is calling its service its Broadband Bonding Service, and uses multiple DSL lines and/or cable modem connections to add bandwidth and traffic to a customer site.

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In Defense of Uber: An Unbiased Opinion

Both Sides of the Table

I was at an alumni dinner at UCSD (I am on the alumni board) and a group of people were talking about how their kids use UberX to get rides home from parties at night. I doubt they have a customer problem. They want our customer records. But this is a high-class problem they solve for me. I know that.

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On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness

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“Imagine you were a Phd wireless chip designer out of UCSD and then Qualcomm. What results must you have in order to raise venture capital or garner good press coverage that helps drive customer acquisition (and also more funding!)? They fund people with no customers. ON SUCCESS. How do we measure success? Dig deeper.

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