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

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The first-ever Silicon Beach Fest attracted more than 2,000 attendees from LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Santa Barbara, New York, Toronto, and London to celebrate LA startups and entertainment with panels, parties, pitch fests, hackathon, and beach games: volleyball, basketball and surfing lessons in Santa Monica and Venice on June 21-23, 2012.

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Making the Internet Smarter at Helping Us

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We all now visit UGC sites to learn about products & services before we use them. A few years ago I planned an outing to Santa Barbara for my Dad’s 70th birthday. In non-geek speak this means that there is so much information out there now it’s hard to separate the good stuff from the rest. And there you have it.

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Nine Startup Tips From Michael Dell

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I generally encourage my UC Santa Barbara students to complete their formal education before joining or creating a startup. Innovation is commonly associated with either the introduction of new products or new features added to existing products. " [Tweet this quote]. Defining The Questions. "It's Look around.

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You Can’t Teach People To Be Entrepreneurs, But Entrepreneurs Can Be Taught

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Despite the fact that I teach entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara , I do not believe that entrepreneurs are created in classrooms. I treat each of my classes as a product that the students are paying a lot of money to consume. A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes.

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George Powell – Doing Well By Having Fun

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I am always on the lookout for inspiring entrepreneurs who have leveraged their passions into healthy livelihoods as they serve as instructive role models for my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students. To go into production, I needed to build hundreds of molds and invest in a cost effective quantity of wheels.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. Is it hard to balance your work hard / play hard culture, especially in beautiful Santa Barbara? Cats or dogs?

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Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

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As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, serial entrepreneur and noted venture capitalist Mark Suster recently shared his advice with a large crowd of emerging entrepreneurs. But our product wasn’t ready for primetime. Do product meetings yourself. The reality is, most startups do not work.