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The Seven Deadly Sins Of Digital User Experience

YoungUpstarts

Thelton McMillian is the founder & CEO of Oakland, CA-based Comrade, a design and strategy agency that creates digital products and services like mobile and Web apps to help businesses improve their user experience. Professionalisms digital design digital marketing user experience web design'

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

Moneyball,” of course, refers of to the 2003 book by Michael Lewis (and the 2011 film starring Brad Pitt) about the Oakland A’s baseball team—and how general manager Billy Beane began using obscure baseball statistics and a new kind of computer-generated analysis to find under-appreciated talent and build a winning team on a shoestring budget.

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Cannabis Entrepreneurs Coming to Austin

Austin Startup

The last session of the event begins at 5:00 pm on Friday, April 20 and features a Pitch Competition showcasing three cannabis-based startups from around the United States: Lumen (Oakland), BDTNDR (Austin) and FLUX (Dallas). Whichever of these three startups most impresses the ACE judges receives a $1500 cash prize!

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Instead of students or faculty coming in with their own ideas — we now have them working on societal problems, whether they’re problems for the State Department or the military or non-profits/NGOs, or for the City of Oakland or for energy or the environment, or for anything they’re passionate about.

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Small business love: trucks, pop-ups, and nomadic goodness

crowdSPRING Blog

Kogi has almost 70,000 Twitter followers ( @kogibbq ), a web-based schedule so fans can see where the trucks will be on any given day, and has garnered tons of media attention, only adding to their legend. Another interesting model has been wandering around Oakland, California this year.

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Small business love: trucks, pop-ups, and nomadic goodness

crowdSPRING Blog

Kogi has almost 70,000 Twitter followers ( @kogibbq ), a web-based schedule so fans can see where the trucks will be on any given day, and has garnered tons of media attention, only adding to their legend. Another interesting model has been wandering around Oakland, California this year.

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How to Build a Startup Team

techcocktail.com

Software Engineer @ General Electric (Barrington, IL) Sr.