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Long Beach Accelerator Launches First Class

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The accelerator is being run by Sunstone Management, the City of Long Beach's Economic Development Department and California State University Long Beach's Institute for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CSLUB IIE). month program involving workshops, guidance from experts, and mentoring from each startup's specific industry sector.

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Brian Grazer and Ron Howard’s Imagine Impact entertainment “accelerator” inks deal with Netflix

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Imagine Impact , the entertainment accelerator launched by Brian Grazer and Ron Howard to try and bring Silicon Valley-style mentorship and project development techniques to Hollywood, has inked a development deal with Netflix and is looking for submissions.

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8 Reasons To Initiate A Startup While Career Probing

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Practice developing a business plan. Also, in most geographies, there are organizations springing up, and university workshops, to mentor people out of work and contemplating a startup. Almost anyone can handle this without professional help, and the cost is less than $100 in many states. Get some help from them if you need it.

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10 Ways To Highlight Your Startup Leadership Ability

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These authors bring a wealth of experience in this domain from their workshops, writing, and lecturing on business leadership worldwide. Strengthen others by developing their competence. I found some great specifics in a classic book, “ The Leadership Challenge ,” by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z.

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Why Warner Bros. Is Tapping Into The World Of Technology Startups

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We caught up with Debra Baker , Senior Vice President, Global Business Development at Warner Bros., We select companies from an application process , and they join us for a twelve week program of workshops, mentoring, and business meetings in order to create value in our businesses, and also accelerate process for them.

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StartupWeekend Next Teaches Teams How to Level Up

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The program is based on a highly developed process created by entrepreneurial thought-leader and Ivy League educator Steve Blank , author of the book The Four Steps to the Epiphany. Customer Development. There is a mentor program that accompanies the class. Single founder teams are welcome but may have to work twice as hard.

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Spooky thought: Where would we be without our supporters?

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Your Software Development Partner. The 7th International System-on-Chip (SoC) Conference, Exhibit & Workshops. Cadence, Intel, IBM, Freescale, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, LSI, X-Fab, and many other leading-edge. An on-line community for entrepreneurs. Key Information Systems (www.keyinfo.com) Providing IBM Storage Solutions.