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Fifty years of the internet

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The ARPANET, as it was called back then, was designed by government, industry and academia so scientists and academics could access each other’s computing resources and trade large research files, saving time, money and travel costs. We are currently still suffering from those shifts.

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Ten Of The Top Tech Companies For Employees In LA

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Edmunds.com has been around forever in Los Angeles, but after a recent redesign and a focus on updating its web site, new mobile. NastyGal is just one of a number of fashion-meets-technology startups to emerge in Los Angeles, which. across its many businesses, and has a surprising number of technology related jobs.

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How This Entrepreneur Went From Poverty To CEO Of A Dead Sexy Startup

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You can hear Don tell his story in the following excerpt from his recent talk at UC Santa Barbara. There''s this thing called graphic design. After graduating from college, Don began his career at a small design firm. "So So I worked at a great design firm called, Agnew Moyer Smith and there''s two great guys there.

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13 Ecosystem Builders That Are Boosting Startup Growth

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If you’re an early-stage entrepreneur, technology has served you well. Indiegogo is a platform for ground breaking technology and where you can find interesting products that haven’t hit the mainstream market. They also align with companies such as Amazon web services, IBM, and many others. iFundWomen (New York, NY).

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Steve Blank Discusses The Origin And Future Of The Lean Startup Movement

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My definition of a startup is, ‘a temporary organization designed to search for a repeatable and scalable business model.’ The other major evolution of Steve’s thinking is in the area of web and mobile businesses, the latter of which were nascent at the time Four Steps was written. If you find one, you become a company.

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

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After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. 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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Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Startup Marketing Ideas - Eric David Greenspan

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I’ve recently had a chance to reconnect with Eric David Greenspan ( LinkedIn , Twitter ) He’s the CEO of Make It Work a high quality, personal, high touch technology service provider for homes and small businesses. We need to spend some time discussing what you do with the social web. A great opportunity for more visible networking.