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Social Networking and Business Value

SoCal CTO

For the past 26 years, Majid has founded, led, turned-around and merged several companies in various industries, as well as providing consulting services to corporate executives in the areas of technology, governance, turn-around and strategy. Previously, he was Chief Operating Officer & Strategic Creative at USA GROUP, INC.,

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

This is going to be BIG.

They didn’t wait for a curriculum change or some government grant money to come through (although they just got Kaufmann money for it). I’ll be doing the same thing with Online Marketing school, CTO school, and there’s even been some rumblings about UX school. No revenues, no costs.

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Lessons Learned: The lean startup

Startup Lessons Learned

This is a philosophy that governs my daily life as well as my entrepreneurial activities. Very useful perspective - as a first-time CEO managing a small startup, these ideas are timely and thought-provoking. September 11, 2008 2:06 PM Editor said. Less is more. Leonardo Da Vinci noted that: "Simplicity is the ultimate in sophistication".

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Corporate Bad Activity Against Innovators

Feld Thoughts

But that’s just one category of bad activity that falls in the “incumbents trying to use government regulation to control their industry and suppress innovation.” So I thought it was pretty awesome when he went to be CTO of Oculus Rift to pursue the next generation of virtual reality software.

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Approaching The Blockchain With Business

The Startup Magazine

Blockdraws Technologies COO, Konstantinos Despotakis is a former online casino CEO and also a former Deputy Director of Compliance at the AGCC. In addition, the founder Darin Oliver, also took in Kim Lumbard, the Blockdraw’s current CTO. What it is truly needed to be done so everyone can have an advantage from the technology?

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Taking stock of the Dutch tech cluster: What The Netherlands needs to win the European startup scene

The Next Web

Think of Werner Vogels (CTO of Amazon), Guido van Rossem (founder of Python programming language and senior engineer at Dropbox) or the more senior Gerard Kleisterlee (chairman of Vodafone). For example, the city of Amsterdam is currently tendering for a third ’tech’ university in the city together with an investment fund and IP attached.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

SoCal CTO

500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? 500 Hats , February 1, 2010 When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Google Friend Connect for Authentication? First Principles.