Santa Monica-based Topspin Media , the online music startup of former Yahoo Music GM Ian Rogers, said today that the firm has inked a deal with Berkleemusic.com, the online continuing education division of the Berklee College of Music, to partner on a set of online music courses. According to Topspin, the two will work together to develop online music courses designed to teach artists, managers and labels on effective use of Topspin's platform. The firm said it will release its first online course, "Marketing your Music with Topspin," in September. Berklee offers courses such as

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Examples of other brands/sites that are similar from a brand perspective? Are there any specific hard dates or important time sensitive opportunities? What do you see as some of the bigger risks / challenges? Of course, we’ll also discuss the details of the product itself. Of course, that’s the really fun, interesting, challenging wor I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. The mess really comes from a developer who was willing to

Thursday, April 23, 2009 -- Charting Your Company's Course using Hoshin Kanri Techniques. ASP Orange County's Akhilesh Gulati introduces us to Hoshin Kanri, a systematic quality approach to planning, executing, auditing and managing corporate visions and business strategies on a companywide basis. At this session you will learn what Hoshin Kanri planning is, how it relates to six sigma, the FADIR methodology and related 7MP tools.

Of course, I have an advantage because I organize the LA CTO Forum . Bottom line – if as you recognize this gap, then reach out to get a slice of a CTO who can help bridge the gap. Founder Developer Gap I’m assuming that the founders understand what they generally want to do with the business and where the product should be going. These questions are critical background for any developer at any level. You know you have a pretty big gap if you are not hearing those questions from your developer. Of course, since you know those questions, you can just collect up the

According to the foundation, the new X PRIZE Lab@USC will include a semester-long course for undergraduates, enrolling students from both the School of Engineering and USC Marshall School of Business. The foundation said that the course will focus on the X PRIZE innovation and philanthropy model, with an inaugural course focused on solar energy. The courses at USC The X Prize Foundation , the nonprofit which is managing a number of prize-based competitions to spur on scientific research and innovation, said Wednesday that it is launching a new lab program at the University of Southern Califonia Viterbi School of Engineering .

And (of course) I asked him how much money he made from the [...] ...Tags: Last week, I looked at the top paid book apps on the iPhone's app store and saw "Free Books" in #1 spot. So I asked Colin Plamondon, the app's co-founder to teach the Mixergy audience specifically what he did to promote the app. Tags: Intervie

Of course, you have to draw the line somewhere. One of the topics that came up in my post Mobile Internet Apple Facebook was around open vs. closed platforms. This issue comes up at the start of almost every new startup company in a variety of forms. I’m constantly struggling