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UCLA DEV Contest Proves Grand Ideas & Teamwork are Essential to LA Tech

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With software developed, tested and turned in, the results of UCLA Anderson School of Management’s DEV Contest were announced on Sunday afternoon to a room full of smiling faces. Everyone was talking, subjects ranged from comparisons of software to successes and failures of companies in the industry.

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Hack This: How Edmunds.com's Hackathons Are Inspiring Outside Innovation

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One local company-- Edmunds.com (www.edmunds.com)--has been very active looking to tap into the innovative spirit in the community through its own hackathons -- days-long, endurance events where teams come together to quickly built and prototype software around a central theme. It was a great event.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. "I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Get to know the developers.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

Tech Zulu Event

The evening will consist of a series of live stage demonstrations guaranteed to impress and inspire new ideas among all in attendance. Earbits is an online radio platform where artists, labels and concert promoters bid for airtime on a per-song-played basis, and use the exposure to sell their music, event tickets and more.

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Interesting Model for University President

SoCal CTO

Its interesting to think about how universities might want to have their staff better aligned with moving ideas from the lab to start-ups. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. In my experience, this has been really hard to do successfully. in Computer Science.

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Challenge of Predicting Winners

SoCal CTO

At the same time, when I saw an old colleague at an event at UCLA a few weeks back, we both were discussing how hard we felt it was to predict success in this kind of venture. But even if you came to me with that idea, Im not sure I would have bought it. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events.

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A Day in the Life of a Product Manager

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Making ideas reality : dependency. The term a gile development is defined, and the panel agreed unanimously that maintaining this mindset is necessary. ” SOME ANECDOTES AS THE EVENING PROGRESSES: Jen expresses her playful chagrin towards users when she’s been told they had no idea there was a new update/feature/product.

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