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Music Prodigy Beats 70 Startups To Bring Music Education Technology to the Masses

Tech Zulu Event

Music Prodigy , a Los Angeles based music education technology firm serious on improving the way people learn, play and interact with music beat over 70 startups with their app Rock Prodigy to win the Silicon Beach Awards. It also won the 2011 Appy Award in education and the 2011 About.com’s Readers Choice Award. How It Works.

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CLU's Gerhard Apfelthaler: What I Learned In 2014

socalTECH

The most significant event definitely has been the opening of our Westlake Center for Entrepreneurship in July  a unique facility that combines a public co-working space, private offices for start-ups, an event space and classrooms. As an educator, I am looking forward to innovations in online learning. READ MORE>>.

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10 Attributes Of The Perfect Partner For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

In fact, I would broaden the definition of partner from co-founder to “business partner.” If both of you are experts at software development, even though one loves design and the other loves coding, that still won’t get the marketing done. This is probably the best place to apply your “gut” feeling. Carry minimal historical baggage.

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Why I Backed a 24-Year-Old Trying to Assess Human Potential

Both Sides of the Table

Today Upfront Ventures is announcing that we’ve backed Rebecca Kantar ’s startup Imbellus , a company designed to assess human potential and ultimately change the way we teach children. I know that “mission driven” sounds nebulous or some convenient definition of anything we want to fund. But really it’s something I look for.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

We're definitely Los Angeles natives, but we got the opportunity to do TechStars. The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. I was really into graphic design in high school, and took several summer workshops at Caltech.

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A Major Step In Gender Equality – Rentable Bridesmaid Dresses

InfoChachkie

Kelsey Doorey: "Vow To Be Chic is the first company to offer designer bridesmaid dress rentals. How will you balance designer dresses that wear out quickly with sturdy, fashion-unfriendly apparel? That said, we are working with our designers to create dresses in fabrics and styles that are more durable and will have a longer life.

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Startups have about $1 trillion worth of reasons to love the Biden infrastructure plan

TechCrunch LA

Tech companies have spent the past decade or more developing innovations that can be applied to old-world industries like agriculture, construction, energy, education, manufacturing and transportation and logistics. The administration doesn’t stop there. Americans in rural areas and on tribal lands particularly lack adequate access.

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