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Oracle Corporation (Nasdaq: ORCL) is the world's leading
supplier of software for information management, and the world's
second largest independent software company. With annual revenues
of more than $10.8 billion, the company offers its database, tools
and application products, along with related consulting, education,
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Toshiba, a world leader in high technology, is a diversified manufacturer
and marketer of advanced electronic and electrical products, spanning
information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based
solutions and services, electronic components and materials, power
systems, industrial and social infrastructure systems, and household
appliances.
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HP is a leading global provider of products, technologies,
solutions and services to consumers and business. The company's
offerings span IT infrastructure, personal computing and access
devices, global services, and imaging and printing.
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Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the
Internet. Cisco's Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions
are the foundation of the Internet and most corporate, education,
and government networks around the world. Cisco provides the broadest
line of solutions for transporting data, voice and video within
buildings, across campuses, or around the world.
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For more than three decades, Intel Corporation has
developed technology enabling the computer and Internet revolution
that has changed the world. Intel supplies the computing and communications
industries with chips, boards, systems, and software building blocks
that are the "ingredients" of computers, servers and networking
and communications products.
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Established in 2000 by former Deliotte consultants,
MyWebteam, Inc. is a full-service Internet professional services
firm that partners directly with its clients to develop Internet
solutions using the latest Web-based technologies.
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Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP was founded in
1962. With more than 150 lawyers who specialize in intellectual
property law, the firm is one of the largest intellectual property
law firms in the United States. We serve clients around the globe
in all areas of intellectual property law. Our clients include public
and private companies at various stages of growth from start-up
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TriNet offers the simplicity of a single-vendor solution for outsourcing
benefits, payroll, and human resources support. Its online and
in-person services allow customers throughout the United States
and Canada to streamline their business, gain enterprise-level
resources for their managers and employees, and focus on strategy
rather than administration. Founded in 1988, we specialize in
serving Internet-enabled workforces who wish to benefit from secure,
paperless HR transactions.
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DHR International is the 5th largest retained executive search
firm in the United States. Its search philosophy and methodology
are unique within the executive search industry and have earned
its company an excellent reputation.
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Deloitte & Touche, one of the nation's leading professional
services firms, provides accounting, assurance and advisory, tax,
and management, financial and human capital consulting services
through nearly 30,000 people in more than 80 U.S. cities.
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For almost 20 years, Silicon Valley Bank has provided innovative
banking products and services to emerging growth and middle-market
companies in the technology and life science industries. It’s
a $4.2 billion commercial bank headquartered in Silicon Valley
with offices across the United States. Over the years, It has
banked more than 30,000 entrepreneurial companies, and currently,
we have over 9,500 clients. In addition, it has client and VC
relationships throughout Asia, Australia, Europe, India, and Israel.
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CriticalThoughtTM, LLC (CTLLC) is the New England CORE Company of
the growing $75 Million, Angel Strategies (AS) Fund. Operating with
a local team of industry consultants, CTLLC engages new ventures,
as well as later stage enterprises, to provide mentoring to the
operating team, access to funding and an exceptional level of due
diligence.
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BearingPoint, Inc. was formerly known as KPMG Consulting,
Inc. BearingPoint is more than a new name. BearingPoint is a defining
moment in the proud history of the company, which spans more than
100 years.
Through major acquisitions and other developments, it recently increased
its workforce to approximately 16,000 professionals, a 60 percent
jump. And it expanded its global footprint into 39 countries.
This unprecedented growth presents a unique opportunity to unify
its global team under a new name and a new brand.
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The Capital Pros Network is an advanced business association
that provides firms with regional, national and international resources
vital to their growth.
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Ascendiant Capital Group, LLC provides investment
banking consulting and business advisory services to emerging growth
companies in the micro-cap and small-cap markets. |
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The Silicon Valley is home to Stanford University, one of the best
universities in the world, dedicated to the pursuit of excellences.
The University is known for its global reach and has internationally
recognized undergraduate and graduate programs in a plethora of
disciplines, including information technology, business, law, medicine
and the sciences and liberal arts.
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Located
in Orange, CA, Chapman University is a 140 year old institution
which provides professional training and liberal arts educational
programs. The university is comprised of School of Law, Argyros
School of Business and Economics, School of Communication Arts,
School of Education, School of Film/Television, School of Music,
Wilkinson College of Letters and Sciences, University College. Chapman
is an independent academic institution recognized for its distinguished
faculty, innovative programs, and personalized attention to its
students.
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Since its founding in 1965, the University of California, Irvine
has combined the strengths of a major research university with the
bounty of an incomparable Southern California location. In fewer
than four remarkable decades, UCI has become internationally recognized
for efforts that are improving lives through research and discovery,
providing excellence in scholarship and teaching, and engaging and
enriching the community.
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The University of Southern California is one of the
world's leading private research universities. Located in the heart
of Los Angeles, USC's two campuses are home to the College of Letters,
Arts and Sciences and 17 professional schools, as well as one of
the largest teaching hospitals in the country. Founded in 1880,
Southern California's oldest private research university can attribute
much of its success to excellence in teaching and research, a deep
and abiding commitment to public service, and a loyal educational
community, the Trojan Family. Learn about this exceptional institution—its
people, its past and present, and its goals for the future.
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Concordia University Irvine is a small, distinguished,
Christian liberal arts university defined by two overriding missions:
faithfulness and excellence in education.
Its program will help you grow intellectually, spiritually and emotionally.
Surrounded by a breathtaking setting and the Concordia "family,"
you'll be nurtured, challenged and prepared for life in a way that
no other university can offer.
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California State University, Fullerton, located in
Southern California, is part of the 23-campus California State University
system, the largest system of senior higher education in the country.
With an enrollment of more than 28,000 students, CSUF offers 99
degree programs, including 45 at the graduate level. In addition
to the main campus in Fullerton, the university operates satellite
campuses at various locations in Orange County, Calif., including
Mission Viejo, Garden Grove, Irvine and Santa Ana.
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The mission of The George L. Graziadio School of Business
and Management is to develop values-centered leaders for contemporary
business practice through a commitment to an entrepreneurial spirit,
ethical focus, and global orientation. As a professional school
growing out of the tradition of a Christian University, we seek
to positively impact both the society at large, and the organizations
and communities in which our students and graduates are members.
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Representing more than 250,000 individual Internet Professionals
and over 250 leading Internet industry companies and educational
institutions, The Association of Internet Professionals (AIP) is
the premier professional association of the Internet industry.
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Founded in 1993, the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs (FWE) is the
premier entrepreneurial service organization for women building
and leading high-growth technology and life science companies. FEW’s
mission is to accelerate women's opportunities to start, manage
and invest in market-leading companies. FWE is headquartered in
the Bay Area and has chapters in Seattle, San Diego/Orange County
and Los Angeles as well as Paris, France.
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The Software Council of Southern California facilitates
the success of our region's information technology companies by
providing a wide-ranging, center-of-excellence forum for forming
invaluable professional connections and exchanging no-nonsense,
practical information.
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TiE, a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs
and professionals, was founded in 1992 in Silicon Valley, California,
USA. Although its birth name, The Indus Entrepreneurs, signifies
the ethnic South Asian or Indus roots of the founders, TiE stands
for Talent, Ideas and Enterprise. It is an open and inclusive organization
that has rapidly grown to more than forty chapters in nine countries.
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