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Burn the bridges behind.

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here.] It was about the earliest days of our life together when we moved to Westwood so I could attend UCLA. Frank Peters made his money writing software for Wall Street. I had no alternatives to success. I was not going back to corporate America. It wasn’t a fall- back position.

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Interview with Anne Walls and John Singleton, WordHustler

socalTECH

In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. If you're doing freelance writing, have a story you're trying to sell, there's a whole process of finding out where you're doing well, not doing well, and what responses you have received.

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Interview with Fouad ElNaggar, Redpoint Ventures

socalTECH

We can also write checks as large as $35M out of the Omega Fund. I can tell you we did four investments in Southern California last year, and in none of those deals did we run into super angels, even though we are writing checks as small as $50,000. They can find me on Twitter, email me, find me on Namesake.

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Stage 32: An Education Hub For Entertainment Industry Creatives

Tech.Co

In 2000 he launched a men’s lifestyle magazine called RAZOR and served as the publication’s Editor in Chief and CEO for the next six years, pursuing acting and writing projects on the side. After leaving RAZOR he began gaining serious traction as a screenwriter and producer.

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Silicon Beach Fest Celebrates Tech Startups and Hollywood in LA | Pics, Highlights and What’s Next!

Tech Zulu Event

If u see an article or write a blog post, email us or leave a comment below with a link to your story and we’ll add it in. Congrats to That’s Suspicious Behavior (USC), the female-led team which won the grand prize in the student pitch fest with ten teams competing from USC, UCLA and Yale via 5-min presentations at CoWorks.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA). Many MBAs took marketing courses but have never been on the front line of A/B testing, email campaigns or PR initiatives. I was reading Chris Dixon’s blog tonight.

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How to Not Suck at a Group Presentation

Both Sides of the Table

This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA. So I thought I’d write a piece on how to not suck when you give a presentation. Don’t write sentences on the – only key words to help you remember what you’re going to say. I spoke about this yesterday on Fox Business News.

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