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CLU's Gerhard Apfelthaler: What I Learned In 2014

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We''re continuing to feature reflections on the last year from movers and shakers in the local high tech community, and today have thoughts from Gerhard Apfelthaler , who is Dean of California Lutheran University''s School of Management , which has been very active in Ventura County helping to promote startup and entrepreneurial activity.

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The 8th Annual Long Beach Soundwalk! | Art Mediums From Random Materials to High Tech

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The artists provided exhibit participants an iPad with a custom-designed soundboard with a number of pre-loaded sounds with volume and activate capabilities. It’s definitely not a music event. With how these sound exhibits are done and performed, it’s all about experiencing. No one is really selling their work.

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Interview with Alex Schneider, Ventura Ventures Technology Center

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On Thursday, the City of Ventura is formally launching a new incubator, the Ventura Ventures Technology Center (www.v2tc.com), targeted at high tech businesses. Alex Schneider: We designed the space to be a real creative, collaborative environment. What is the Ventura incubator?

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What I Learned in 2014: Kevin Winston

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Over the last couple of weeks, we''ve featured a number of reflections on the year from movers and shakers in the local high tech community. As founder of Digital LA, I run one to two tech events every week bringing together tech, startups, investors, Hollywood, developers designers, and more. I like events.

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Interview with Nick Hedges, MomentFeed

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We caught up with Nick--who is a veteran of the area's high tech industry, most recently serving as CEO of Velocify--to get the latest on MomentFeed, which provides services to multi-brand, location businesses. Our interview today is with Nick Hedges , the CEO of Santa Monica-based MomentFeed. Google triangulates a lot of information.

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Investors Know A Product Doesn’t Make a Business

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It’s definitely positive to have a product plan. A simple differentiation is that a product plan is designed for internal use, to get the product out. For software, websites, and high-tech products, this is the “meat” of what you intend to build. Don’t get me wrong.

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5 Keys To Effective Entrepreneurial Team Mentoring

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I have used this approach with high-tech roles, like software design, as well as business development roles. I’m definitely not proposing the “traditional” style of mentoring, where the goal was a one-way transfer of a broad range of knowledge or information. Good people won’t want it to work any other way.

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