socalTECH

JULY 22, 2021

Los Angeles-based education technology startup Sketchy is ramping up its hiring efforts, saying today that it has added a number of new executives and advisors to the company.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 22, 2010

I never hire job hoppers. I then really quickly race through looking for some minimum qualifications such as companies for which they worked, education, grades, etc. You have tough choices to make about whom you hire on your team. And I care more about the debate than trying to be popular. They make terrible employees.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

Carpinteria-based lynda.com , which operates an online training and education site for computer skills, announced Thurday that it has added Michael Ninness as the firm's Vice President of Content. Tags: lynda executive training education content adobe. Ninness re-joins the company from Adobe, where he was a Group Product Manager.

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socalTECH

APRIL 17, 2019

A new, Los Angeles venture capital fund, AET Fund said on Wednesday that it has raised $50M to make investments in entertainment technology, and hired someone to head up its U.S. investment efforts. AET Fund had said last year that it would be establishing its venture funding efforts in Los Angeles.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Hire consultants. Attend trade show education sessions. The first rule of marketing and positioning is to listen to the marketplace. Interview potential customers, hold focus groups, meet with existing customers. Ask you field representatives to debrief you about what they are hearing. But listen!

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 25, 2012

Boston Startup School set out to leverage the renewable resource of graduating seniors in Boston to fill that gap by adding to the education of entrepreneurial-minded Gen-Yers. The school has been designed to provide hard skills and develop soft skills that one would only receive on the job at a startup, and to do so well before being hired.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 7, 2021

That was not only because traditional learning environments needed to go virtual, but also because the pandemic led so many — willingly or by force — to rethink what they were doing with their lives, and online education was one key route for doing something about it, at a time when little else could be done.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 16, 2020

Its round will be used to speed up its growth through strategic hires and partnerships, according to UNest. Ksenia Yudina initially founded the company to provide financial planning and services to lower- and middle-class families looking for ways to start saving for their children’s education, she said.

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Tech.Co

JULY 27, 2016

Is coding education not the foolproof model we once thought? Particularly because their graduates enjoy a 97 percent hiring rate and an average salary of approximately $103,000 per year. The key to creating software engineers that are capable and effective in their roles is to teach more than coding.

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socalTECH

JANUARY 22, 2014

Carpinteria-based online education company lynda.com announced this morning that it has bolstered its executive team with four new hires. learning video education online executive lynda' Mujumdar was most recently at QuinStreet, and also had been at Live Nation/Ticketmaster and Goldman Sachs. READ MORE>>.

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TechCrunch LA

JUNE 16, 2020

The company said the money went to boost the development of new curriculum and hire educational and operational staff. The financing that the company raised will be used to build out that more robust — and expensive — suite of educational offerings, according to Bümo.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Los Angeles-based programmatic advertising marketplace operator OpenX announced this morning that it has made two major executive hires, to support growth at the company. OpenX said it has named Eric W. Muhlheim as its new Chief Financial Officer, and named Laura Revenko as its Chief People Officer.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Costa Mesa-based Utelogy , a developer of audio/visual control and analytics software for the higher education and enterprise market, has raised a Series A funding round, the company said Tuesday. According to Utelogy, it will use the funding to hire software developers and additional support staff.

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socalTECH

OCTOBER 11, 2017

The new startup--the first Blockchain startup out of Science--lets employers and educators verify information on user profiles, and also uses Blockchain to weight endorsements of others in your network. The startup also said it will reward endorsers when people are paid or hired.

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TechCrunch LA

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

Bloomberg reported that Trump said the new company would be headquartered in Texas, would hire as many as 25,000 people and would contribute $5 billion toward U.S. The bulk of TikTok’s U.S. operations are now in Los Angeles. As the Trump Administration continues its push to disrupt the operations of Chinese tech companies in the U.S.,

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SoCal Tech Calendar

JULY 18, 2016

Join General Assembly and Uber for a candid discussion to learn about a day in the life of a mobile developer - from the challenges in scaling a global app to the skills companies look for in a hire, discover resources to get you started. education/break-into-mobile-development-appy-hour-with-ga-uber/los-angeles/27269.

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Tech Zulu Event

JANUARY 15, 2013

Hiring Bounty, based in South Africa is a startup that allows one to reccommend a friend for a job and earn bounty if the friend is hired. I left BrandsEye late last year to set up Hiring Bounty. What inspired you to start Hiring Bounty? Companies are only liable for the payment if they hire someone.

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socalTECH

AUGUST 19, 2014

The company said the new San Francisco office will allow the company to access the Bay Area''s talent pool, and will allow it to hire for key positions in marketing, engineering, product management, and user interface and experience. lynda education executive expansion francisco silicon valley' READ MORE>>.

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socalTECH

APRIL 9, 2012

Santa Barbara-based zuuka , the publisher of the iStoryTime interactive kids books and educational applications, has tapped an Apple vet for its new Creative Director, the company said today. The company said it has hired Paul Mueller-Bruehl to head up its design department.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 17, 2018

The only requirement is that they focus on educational video content targeting children and young adults. The EduCreator Incubator will seed 25 to 40 “emerging video creators” with $25,000 to $75,000 in seed funding, depending on their location, and will enroll them in a 12-month mentorship program.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In fact, I believe the majority of true entrepreneurs are not interested in this new role, and jump ship quickly by hiring an experienced CEO or merging with another company, to start their next entrepreneurial effort. That means making sure the right people are hired, trained, and in the right place at the right time.

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socalTECH

MARCH 10, 2011

Docufide , which provides a service to transmit educational credentials and high school transcripts to colleges and universities, announced Thursday that it has renamed itself Parchment, Inc. Docufide recently hired Matthew Pittinsky, the founder of educational software firm Blackboard, as its new CEO. funding round.

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Berkonomics

JUNE 22, 2017

For example, 81% of businesses hiring today want graduates with business or accounting degrees. of seniors majored in computer science, while 65% of businesses looking to hire need these skills. The mismatch between what employers want today and graduating seniors majored in is striking. But only 19% of seniors have majored in this.

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TechCrunch LA

APRIL 23, 2020

The goal, is to get local, shovel-ready projects the financing they’d need to start the process of hiring workers immediately. billion set aside for workforce retraining and education. Light-duty charging infrastructure occupies another $10 billion of the suggested stimulus measures.

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TechCrunch LA

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Demographics at funds and startups will also be under the microscope, since signatories have agreed to report on their composition by race, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability status, immigration status, veteran status, educational attainment, socioeconomic origin, tenure at a firm. for technology investment and corporate development.

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Berkonomics

APRIL 19, 2018

He observed that the process we follow to be humane in our handling of under-performing employees, manage the risk of future lawsuit, finally then move to separate the employee, define the open position, recruit the candidate, train the new hire and count the new hire as up to speed in the job can take all of eighteen months.

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TechCrunch LA

DECEMBER 17, 2020

“When I was a kid my dad owned a small minimarket and got sued for wrongful termination and he had to dip into my college education fund.” These managers can lead internal investigations, hires, onboarding, furloughs and implementation of return to work procedures.

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Xconomy

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Those of us who keep tabs on the tech world hear a lot about the challenges of hiring and retaining IT talent. A number of strategies have been deployed in an attempt to solve this problem—internships, code schools, and industry-led STEM education initiatives, for example—but a Seattle-based apprenticeship program called.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 5, 2023

That means every entrepreneur needs to learn how to attract, hire, and manage technical people for their team. Let candidates educate you on attributes you need and they bring. Former employers will normally only give you candidate employment dates or good news.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 10, 2020

That means every entrepreneur needs to learn how to attract, hire, and manage technical people for their team. Let candidates educate you on attributes you need and they bring. Former employers will normally only give you candidate employment dates or good news.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 7, 2014

Hire consultants. Attend trade show education sessions. The first rule of marketing and positioning is to listen to the marketplace. Interview potential customers, hold focus groups, meet with existing customers. Ask you field representatives to debrief you about what they are hearing. But listen!

Marketing 176

Marketing Metrics Education Resource 176

Xconomy

MAY 21, 2019

These days, Thrun seems just as excited by another imprint he’s made on the still-forming AV industry—not as a researcher, but as an entrepreneur in online education. Read more » Reprints | Share: UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 30, 2022

Hire more help than helpers. You can hire the best salespeople, have great products and define good metrics, but without decisive and innovative managers, the sales organization will not reach its full potential. To achieve second-stage growth you need to stay at the top of your creative game, more than a focus on beating competitors.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

Torrance-based Active Storage , the RAID storage firm founded by ex-Apple executives, and backed by Intel Capital, Mission Ventures, and Valhalla Partners, said Wednesday that it has hired on a CFO. The firm said it has hired Jane Wike as its CFO. Wike had already been serving as Interim CFO for the company since this spring.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 11, 2012

The primary stipulation is that each Thiel Fellow must drop out of college, for at least two years, and pursue their “entrepreneurial ventures, research and self-education.”. Facebook had to resolve expensive and time-consuming litigation related to promising early hires senior positions and substantial equity stakes.

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SoCal Tech Calendar

MARCH 17, 2012

Learn firsthand which jobs SDGandE hires for and how to best prepare for them. This event will provide you with resources that can help with your education and career planning. Tuesday, March 20, 2012 -- SDGandE Engineering and Technology Expo.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

Perfection is impossible in today’s rapidly changing market, and iterations are part of educating the market as well as your team. This approach works best if you start with a focus on hiring change agents, and incentive programs for innovation. Spend twenty percent of work time on innovation.

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