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

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We came together with the idea of designing something that specifically addresses the skills and opportunity gap in our country. There's a big disconnect between their education and employment. Since then, I have worked extensively with mentoring youth, and helping them figure out what's possible in terms of careers.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

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He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Judges and SuperDemo Bill Gross of Idealab!

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In college at the California Institute of Technology, he patented a new loudspeaker design and formed GNP Loudspeakers, Inc. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology and of the Art Center College of Design. and has led business analysis & user interface design projects for the U.S.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Judges Include Mike Jones, CallFire, Idealab, Tech Coast Angels, Coloft

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He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, a JD from Southwestern University, and suffers from an addiction to cheeseburgers. Alex serves on the Board of Directors for Logsdon School, a non-profit school providing educational services to students with special needs. Navy, Pfizer, & Unisys Corp.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

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Codeita lets you design, code, and publish all from a cloud-based LAMP development environment. Mark founded Launchpad LA, a program designed to help mentor LA’s most promising first-time startup CEO’s. Named as one of the 20 most innovative startups in the country, based in Santa Monica. Want to sponsor?

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

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