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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. The group, choosing to refuse defeat, took a step back and looked at some corporate relationships that had already been developed.

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Challenge of Predicting Winners

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Why did MySpace win? Certainly MySpaces tie-in with music was a genius move. But even if you came to me with that idea, Im not sure I would have bought it. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.

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What Tech Entrepreneurs Could Learn from Chamillionaire

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What things did he experiment in the early days when there was no Facebook, Twitter or even MySpace to promote oneself? There are many analogies here for software development. Cham had other ideas. He created demand. Cham learned this on his own because he had to – he didn’t have a label.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

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Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. Providing more than just money, TCA brings connections, knowledge, mentoring and operational assistance to bold early-stage entrepreneurs with game-changing ideas.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

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Of course, the evening wouldn’t have been complete without our fireside chat with Mike Jones , serial entrepreneur and former CEO of MySpace. Providing more than just money, TCA brings connections, knowledge, mentoring and operational assistance to bold early-stage entrepreneurs with game-changing ideas.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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Nevertheless, if you share too much in your funding process or meet too many VCs expect a certain amount of your ideas to spread around the startup community. He is the author of “ Joel on Software ” and I was a reader nearly 10 years ago when I had never heard of Fred Wilson, Brad Feld and VentureHacks didn’t exist.

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Spolsky on Software on Both Sides of The Table

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Do you see product managers as a hindrance to software development? Companies historically have structured their development teams in different ways. Instead of using seniority, the program manager would have to convince others based on the merit of their ideas. 46 minutes: Joel on the battle between MySpace and Facebook.