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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. The program itself is incredibly daunting initially, but it was really valuable for us, especially as an educational experience.

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

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He also designed the Farmville iPhone application (top iPhone app), and worked on corporate development deals including Microsoft, Yahoo, Zynga Japan, and Zynga corporate strategy. Alex serves on the Board of Directors for Logsdon School, a non-profit school providing educational services to students with special needs.

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Your Product Needs to be 10x Better than the Competition to Win. Here’s Why:

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GoTo.com went on to ink huge distribution deals with Microsoft, AOL & Yahoo! Overture was sold to Yahoo! Bill had previously created a packaged software company called Knowledge Adventure the produced children’s educational software. .&# Immediately thereafter Amazon became a large business.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

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Jason Glaspey, PIE (Portland Incubator Experiment). Entrepreneurism / Monetization business, education, MBA. . Meg Garlinghouse, Yahoo! Entrepreneurism / Monetization community, education, marketing. . In this inspirational and educational interactive hybrid presentation, we will discuss what it takes.

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