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Interview with Adi Jaffe, All About Addiction

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One of Southern California's biggest assets are the number of world class, local universities researching and developing technology and knowledge across a large number of disciplines. Adi Jaffe: I'm a UCLA addiction trained psychologist, specializing in addiction. How is this related to the work you were doing at UCLA?

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How FilmBreak Is Bringing Data and Analytics To Hollywood, with Darren Marble

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My co-founder and CTO, Steven Corwin, is a graduate of UCLA's Electrical Engineering program, and built our program and lead the development of our technology platform. He came up with the original vision for Filmbreak, from his intimate knowledge of the challenges and opportunities in the industry. Where's the service now?

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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). My first job after college was as a developer at Andersen Consulting. I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions.

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Interview with Elizabeth Amini, Anti-Aging Games

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Elizabeth Amini: My first company was in graphic design, and provide both graphics for the entertainment industry, but also buildling websites for UCLA and all kinds of places around science, astrophysics, and those types of departments. Because they were science related, at some point I ended up talking with NASA JPL.

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Kareo: Bringing The Power Of the Cloud to Small Medical Practices

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We also have a cloud-baesd, billing and practice management solutions, which enables them to manage all of their internal financial processes, and we also have solutions for billing and cloud-based outsourcing of back office tasks. We went to college together at UCLA, and he was one of the early guys at Scour.

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How Element 16 Hopes To Help Cut Power Use In Industrial Plants, Parker Wells

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com), based in Glendale, which has developed new heat energy storage technology aimed at use in the industrial sector. Parker Wells: We do a lot of different things, but all of them are build around one core piece of technology, which we started working on at UCLA as researchers. How do you do that?

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

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The final showoff's have been selected, so that brings the count to a total of 10 showoff's plus a wild card from the demo night at UCLA (full list of showoff's below). Leila first developed the idea behind Samasource while working as a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners (now Booz & Co.), Bambi Francisco. gigaom.com. .