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Serious Games for Simulation, Education and the Enterprise

SoCal Tech Calendar

Saturday, January 12, 2013 -- Serious Games for Simulation, Education and the Enterprise. Likewise, a wide variety of tasks, from corporate training to childhood education, have been variously recast in a "game" context with dimensions and purposes quite beyond simple "fun and entertainment." Caltech/MIT Enterprise Forum. ?Game,?

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How Chinese Startup Tradesparq Is Looking To Grow In SoCal

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Michael Kleist: Tradesparq is a B2B trade platform. Our CTO is mainland Chinese, but was educated here. What is Tradesparq? The crux of it is we help buyers user their network to verify suppliers, primarily in Asia and China, where we started. We then add things like ratings, and then shipment data. Everyone else is Chinese.

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Venture capitalists ‘like and subscribe’ to influencers

TechCrunch LA

Next she took to Instagram, a new social media platform that quickly became the most effective tool in a blogger’s toolkit. I feel this responsibility to my industry to put the best business practices I’ve learned along the way into a platform so I can help other influencers.”. We are in phase three of the influencer economy.

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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We’ll be conducting a series of educational programes covering: fund raising, team building, product development, sales, marketing, business development and how to prioritize your time as a CEO. They have developed a cloud-based platform for merchants to publish to multiple distribution networks, including social, mobile and email.

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CSER (Conf on Systems Engineering Research) 2011

SoCal Tech Calendar

The primary conference objective is to provide practitioners and researchers in academia, industry, and government a common platform to present, discuss and influence Systems Engineering research with the intent to enhance Systems Engineering practice and education. See [link].

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Successful Acquisition Integration

SoCal Tech Calendar

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 -- Caltech Executive Education: Successful Acquisition Integration. Watson, former worldwide director of new platform development for Eastman Chemical. Topics include MandA conception, planning, the first 100 days post-merger/acquisition, IP, ongoing improvement. See [link] (more).

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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

However, Elgg could power 100,000 networks and it would make no difference - there is no revenue stream as we give everything away under a GPL license. I understand his frustration. You create something that has value and gets traction and yet youve created it in a way that the software is considered "free."