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What Mattered in 2012: Kevin Winston, Digital LA

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For the last week of the year, we're featuring the thoughts and reflections of some of the movers and shakers of Southern California's high tech community. Both Silicon Beach Fests featured LA Mayoral Candidate Eric Garcetti, and were covered in several Forbes articles, TechCrunch, PandoDaily, and national and local press.

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White House Launches Startup America Effort

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The White House is announcing a new effort today to spur high tech innovation and growth, called the Startup America Partnership. According to the partnership effort, it is looking to "dramatically increase the development, prevalence and success of innovative, high-growth U.S. READ MORE>>.

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Early Customer Feedback Can Lead to a Death Spiral

Startup Professionals Musings

For most new high-tech products, the first customers are always “early adopters.” The term “early adopters” relates to the people who are eager to try almost any new technology products, and originates from Everett M. Product suggestions by early adopters often ask for increased user control over details of the technology.

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What I Learned in 2014: Kevin Winston

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Over the last couple of weeks, we''ve featured a number of reflections on the year from movers and shakers in the local high tech community. Beyond entertainment, ad tech is huge with Rubicon''s IPO and the TrueX $200M acquisition by Fox. What technologies are you looking at in 2015? This is just the start.

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Don’t Let Early Adopters Distract Your Market Focus

Startup Professionals Musings

For most new high-tech products, the first customers are always “early adopters.” The term “early adopters” relates to the people who are eager to try almost any new technology products, and originates from Everett M. Product suggestions by early adopters often ask for increased user control over details of the technology.

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Reflections On 2017: Krisztina 'Z' Holly, MAKE IT IN LA

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During the holiday season, our tradition over the last few years has been to post reflections on the past year and some predictions from Southern California's "movers and shakers" in the technology industry. Are there any technology innovations, gadgets, devices, software, that particularly caught your eye in 2017?

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Environmental Stewardship

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." -- Christopher Hansen, AeA President & CEO UPCOMING GREEN EVENTS: 04/29/08 - "High Tech Innovation / Green Engineering Awards" Mix with the A-list of extraordinary innovators who are making amazing contributions to the high tech world, while keeping our planet in mind. The AeA O.C. Lee Fox, Founder KooDooZ, Inc.

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