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Quincy Jones' New Playground Sessions Targets Music Education

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Jones--who lives in Bel Air--is behind Playground Sessions , which is hoping to make music education available to anyone willing to sign up for a monthly membership. a month for access to high definition video tutorials from Jones, David Sides, and others. content roll musician education piano music rock sessions playground'

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

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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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Common Interest Communities Finds $10M

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Those touchscreens are installed in every student''s room, and offer up high definition cameras, social apps, and more. console capital venture education student network kiosk communities interest common' The company said it installs and operates custom, touchscreen consoles in buildings and housing units for students. READ MORE>>.

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How To Pick Your Focus For Your Next Business Venture

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Is there an educated marketplace waiting? An educated marketplace is one where your target customers already understand the problem and the impact of your technology. Truly disruptive technologies are tough, since it always takes extra time and money to educate and motivate the customers to move away from current approaches.

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Four ways to create marketing excellence

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Then there’s the compass or cardinal definitions model for marketers : N=needs, W=wants, S=security, and E=education. The four Cs: Consumer, cost, communication and convenience. This makes sense too, and surely deserves time. We can go on forever. But I have my own model that is even simpler.

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Interview with Michele Ruiz and Dan Gould, BiasSync

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Our online solution combines both scientific methodology, as well as highly produced, entertaining, professional development content around education and awareness of unconscious bias. It's education, measurement, analysis, and ongoing mitigation strategy. That's what we do over the course of our two year contract.

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CLU's Gerhard Apfelthaler: What I Learned In 2014

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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>>.