8221; I went to UCLA and we’ll see where things go. 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. He came to Mixergy to talk about why Varien grew (it had a lot to do with focus) and how the company launched Magento (his developers pushed him to do it).

He has been an instructor in UCLA Extension for 9 years, and is a frequent contributor to various online publications. Michael Goldstein, CEO of Stun Media Michael Goldstein is the Chief Executive Officer & Strategic Creative at Stun Media in Los Angeles. He has a practice focused on complex software and internet transactions for an international base of technology and other clients, as well as on government relations and international policy and enforcement issues affecting the copyright industries. 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.

Almost all of the finalists were MBAs (Stanford x2, Wharton, Harvard x2, MIT, UCLA).  then worked in a computer store called Software Centre in high school and college (UCSD).  I helped program my college’s recruiting office’s software system.  But the truth is that I believe I have This is part of my ongoing series called “ Start-up Lessons .” 8221;

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. The Startonomics conference at UCLA Anderson business school, hosted by DealMaker Media, was a great event for the talks as well as the networking. Who are some of your go to people in Los Angeles? In L.A., 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.

Applications (software, Operating Systems), Device Technologies (micro-processors, touch screens, system on chip radios, motion sensors) and Networks (GPRS, CDMA, LTE, WiMAX, WiFI). in an open Forum at UCLA. Wednesday, May 13, 2009 -- Mobile Experience 2.0. WINMEC. After years of dialog on mobile convergence,

UCLA-WINMEC RFID Research Program is organizing a special forum to invite the RFID research community to present their research with the intent of submitting to the Proceedings of the IEEE. Advanced topics that will further the technology (hardware/middleware/software) and its applications will be presented at this forum. Wednesday, October 15, 2008 -- WINMEC RFID Forum. This forum will bring together academics, researchers, industry technologists/practitioners and business/I.T.

And Peter's doing a Fast Pitch at UCLA. We like opportunities for software operating in the cloud computing model and web-based businesses with an advertising model, we agree we don't like. Fast Pitch at UCLA Tuesday Feb 24th 5-9pm David Verrill of the Hub Angels, ACA Chairman John Huston and Tech Coast Angels Peter Cowen and Dave Berkus join me as we discuss the challenges facing angel investors and entrepreneurs today. All those billions and trillions in the bailout and stimulus bills, just how much money is a trillion?

UCLA Covel Commons 200 Tickets: Register here UCLA Anderson School Of Management – Entrepreneurship Week – Tim Westergren, the founder of Pandora, will be delivering the Keynote address on campus as part of UCLA Entrepreneurship Week. UCLA Entrepreneurship Week encourages and celebrates entrepreneurship across all the graduate schools on campus. This week is packed with events, and two celebrations happening on Thursday. Hope you have a case of red bull cause you’re gonna need it.

industry has been steadily moving towards a Services based model whereby services such as video conferencing via a laptop, or directory services through a mobile phone, or filling time sheets/accounting through WiFi-enabled PDA, can be performed through the Internet cloud via a browser, instead of having to distribute and install software on each client. While the burden of software installation, update or maintenance is removed from the hands of the enterprise user, the burden of creating, managing and securing the infrastructure, devices, user accounts, and, networks, falls in the hands

Tech Coast Angels Fast Pitch - February 24th - UCLA. (www.pitchtheangels.com) Robert Ramey Software Development (www.rrsd.com/socal ) - We provide services for the design and development of products requiring expertise expertise in software, electronics, and mechanical engineering. Thanks to all of our sponsors, who make our coverage of Southern California's technology industry possible: Sponsors Redpoint