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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

socalTECH

The firm notably has Atari founder Nolan Bushnell as an advisor and serving as its chief game designer. I studied cognitive science, the study of the brain, as an undergraduate. So I actually started a graphic design company out of college, and got lucky with the web taking off at the right time.

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Krisztina "Z" Holly, MAKE IT IN LA: Bridging Entrepreneurship and Manufacturing

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We recently did a study, and we found that there were nearly 3,000 new businesses created in manufacturing here in the last three years. We did the study to understand the ecosystem, which led us to launch this nonprofit with the major. I thought manufacturing was really interesting, but I didn't know what I was getting into.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

I took an advanced computer course in high school where I learned to build databases in Ashton Tate’s dBase III+ and to compile my designs using a product called Clipper. I took a job in corporate finance as an intern my junior year at First Interstate Bank and I did system design on the side, as my main job was corporate planning.

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Interview: Benjamin Satterfield, Co-Founder & CEO TestFlight

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Value Prop Twitter Style : TestFlight helps developers build better apps. We developed it for ourselves. TestFlight does simple, elegant, over the air distribution of apps that are in development and haven’t been made available in the App Store yet. In the development world, it is always about patterns. ."

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Gene Dolgoff's 3D Vision: Using Crowdfunding To Turn the World 3D

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Gene Dolgoff: After years of research and development, we have developed technology which converts two dimensional video to 3D. It was a series of different technologies we had ot develop and apply for patents on, and now that we have it, we're working on a prototype. Why turn to crowdfunding and Fundable for this?

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

Thus, avoid link farms, mindless keyword content and similar techniques designed to make your site more Google friendly. Cost Per Click (CPC) or Download (CPD) – As the name implies, advertisers pay only for clicks on its advertisements or when a user downloads its software, case study or whitepaper.

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10 Key Business Plan Elements Not In A Product Spec

Startup Professionals Musings

To be clear, I define a product specification as the technical definition of your product, to be used for development and testing purposes, with a quick business summary for context. Scale your funding requests to the value of your startup today, consisting of assets, contracts, and intellectual property you currently own.

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