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Interview with Kos Galatsis, Carbonics

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One of the companies on that journey is Los Angeles-based Carbonics (www.carbonics.com), which is taking technology developed in the labs of USC and UCLA, and bringing it to use in the wireless semiconductor market. Semiconductor advances are infamous for costing millions of dollars and requiring very significant investment in infrastructure.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA). But in the end we selected David Lin , a superstar who did 4 years at the technology investment banking firm Montgomery & Co and 4 years as Director of Strategy at the comparison shopping site PriceGrabber where he dealt with many operational issues.

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Interview with Jonathan Zweig, AppOnboard

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App developers are spending a lot of money with the ad networks just to get users to download an app and go through your tutorial. I had a programming job at UCLA at the time, working at UCLA Radiology. He was just a friend from church, and we actually connected at church through bible study. I was a sponge.

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Pausing To Reflect: Veteran’s Day | Interview with Veteran and Tech Enthusiast Dustan Batton

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After a short stint at a community college for some credits I needed, I was accepted to UCLA. MM: What did you study? Early on at UCLA I decided that I wanted to work on the political side of technology. It’s about the business community investing resources. I also received an academic scholarship for first year.