He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Tell me a bit about your background. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. That's where I learned I enjoyed interacting with customers and working with development teams to build and launch products. From there, I became the first non-founder employee at an e-commerce startup called BITSource, which was the first electronic software distributor delivering electronic volume software licenses to corporations. Visible networking is turning into a really great opportunity to get to know people better, get to meet new people, and have some interesting conversations.

Startup Army would like to recognize our own Serena Ehrlich for her new advisory role with UCLA’s Marketing and Advertising programs. UCLA’s Certificate in Marketing consists of four track concentrations focused on marketing management, sales and marketing account management, marketing communications, and a “create your own” (*hint* *socialmedia* *hint*) track. She now leads the communications team at the LA-based product We are very pleased to know that Serena will be aiding students to develop their analytical, critical, and creative thinking skills in the realm of Social Media knowledge.

Social networking sites and microblogs are used not only to build company brands, but to foster productivity; social media tools help build communities around the question, "What are you working on?" Formerly, he was Managing Director of both Product Management and of Business Development at Los Angeles Times Interactive. He has been an instructor in UCLA Extension for 9 years, Just a quick note that I'll be moderating a Technology Council Event : Social Networking as a Business Strategy May 19, 2009 - Culver City Social networking media are used on a daily basis to grow businesses and expand career opportunities.

One of the ways we are doing that is by running a KlickFu development contest with the UCLA ACM computer science student group. Tags: Games Marketing Produc Last week, we filed the provisional patent for the technology in KlickFu, so now we can gradually start coming out of stealth mode (finally!). Last night was the kick-off meeting for the [...] ...Tags:

Now Dealmaker has brought this conference to UCLA, and the SoCal Tech Group is proud to be their marketing partner for this event. Where : The Anderson School of Management at UCLA (but open to the general public). Product Development 101: The DNA of Market Disruption, Mark Jeffrey, Mahalo Build it and they will come, right? Everybody is going to love this, won’t they?

Recently, we learned about Solarmer Energy , a spinout of UCLA, which is developing flexible solar panels, and caught up with Woolas Hsieh , President and Founder of the firm and Dina Lozofsky , VP, Corporate Development at the firm to hear more about its emerging technology. Let's The original technology was developed at UCLA by Professor Yang Yang. In the recent surge in interest in the clean technology and energy investment area, we're constantly surprised by the number of startups in the area focused on some aspect of the industry. Let's start on the technology side--can

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 -- Sustainable Product Design and Smart Grid System Architecture Program. Sanjeev Jain and Professor Rajit Gadh of UCLA. The first part of the program will present Sustainable Product Design and the second part of the program will present Sustainable Smart Grid System Architecture. WINMEC. This program will be jointly taught between Dr.

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 -- Sustainable Product and Smart Grid System Design Program. Rajit Gadh of UCLA. The first part of the program will present Sustainable Product Design and the second part of the program will present Sustainable Smart Grid System Design. WINMEC. This program will be jointly taught between Dr.

8221; I went to UCLA and we’ll see where things go. think the biggest breakthrough for us came in 2003 or 2004 with the understanding that there was an open-source product called OS Commerce that had a large following — but the service providers on the market weren’t really sophisticated, and there weren’t that many of them. So without that client — without that fifty-cent AdWord — we probably would not have launched the product. Roy Rubin was a student trying to make extra money on the side when he founded Varien, the company that went on to launch Magento, an ecommerce platform that enables billions of dollars in online sales.

This was evident at the Twiistup pre-event company pitch last week at UCLA.  Francisco The bring your product to life.  They Establish the persona of the person who would be using your products.  Help Tell us what their life is like without your product – how they struggle.  Tell Most people suck at presenting to big groups.  It’s It’s a shame because the ability to nail these presentations at key conferences can be once-in-a-lifetime opportunities to influence journalists, business partners, potential employees, customers and VCs.