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Benchling Scores $14.5M to Grow Online Lab Notebook for Bio-Researchers

Xconomy

New immunotherapy approaches to cancer treatment, and the CRISPR technology for editing genetic material in cells, are among the most sophisticated research strategies scientists are using in their quest to defeat disease. Existing data management systems weren’t tailored for work.

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Sponsor Post: Southern California technology firms are hiring!

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Director of Research & Analytics , Santa Monica, Adconion Media Group. Web Application Developer , Irvine, GrowMetrix. Web Developer , Calabasas, lynda.com, Inc. Web UX Designer , Carpinteria, lynda.com, inc. Senior Web Developer Software Engineer , Santa Monica, Cars.com.

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Sebastian Thrun and Udacity Launch New Self-Driving Nanodegree

Xconomy

These days, Thrun seems just as excited by another imprint he’s made on the still-forming AV industry—not as a researcher, but as an entrepreneur in online education.

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Founder Challenges with Startup Development Teams and CTOs

SoCal CTO

I''m spending more of my time recently working with non-technical startup founders who are having challenges with their software/web/mobile development teams. Sometimes they will lead key product tests, special projects, essentially research and development. One of your better developers leaves. The last 10% takes the other 90%.

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A Day in the Life of a Product Manager

Tech Zulu Event

The challenge is in getting clear numbers, but not often as cleanly as a basic web analytics report. Web analytics, pretty clear. You need to research what they do, and on the development/API side, that’s something that you’ll have to go in and fix too. For example? Online usage data, easy. Machinima’s example?

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

A web telephony pioneer and serial entrepreneur, Burr will oversee sales and marketing while expanding the range of clients served and building vendor, partner and investor relationships, according to CallFire CEO and Co-Founder Dinesh Ravishanker.

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How to Teach Computational Thinking

Xconomy

We’ve had Wolfram|Alpha free on the web for years now. Yes, there’s certainly a need for some number of software engineers in the world who can write low-level programs in languages like C++ or Java or JavaScript—and can handle the details of loops and declarations.