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If You Don’t Define Your Personal Brand the Market Will

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I was graduated with a double degree in economics & political science from UCSD in 1991. I was 23 and had been programming computers, designing computer networks and selling software for 10 years. My colleagues that graduated with engineering degrees from UCSD were paid $31,000 – 15% more. Was she tough enough?

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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Over the past decade we’ve had high-profile exits at many companies that pioneered monetization techniques now used across the web including Commission Junction, Value Click, ShopZilla, Price Grabber, LowerMyBills and a newer breed including Invoca, Burstly, Shift, Rubicon Project, Gravity, Convertro, Retention Science and so forth.

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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. Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA? Investors include Ron Conway, Ashton Kutcher, and Brian Solis.

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Creating the Next Generation of US Employees. My Investment in Treehouse

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So I invested in Maker Studios , which is now the 3rd largest producer of Internet video on the web. But its objective is to teach the world web design or to program computers. He then of course launched the FOWA (future of web apps) conference , which was very successful. Full stop. TreeHouse is also a video company.

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