But the first three days have consisted mostly of the Interactive conference, which features some of the best and brightest from the world of tech.
This advice is as old as the interview process itself, but many candidates still fail to follow it, especially in the casual world of tech start-ups: Send a thank-you note.
But he also had a message for the next generation looking to make it big: go to college, take advantage of the world of tech and think about ways to change your local community.
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So while the rest of the world of tech is dealing with the fallout, and possible implications of patent law, over here in the wild party that is Alt, we're fist pumping at all the awesome weekly sci-tech fodder.
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It's become a bit of a must-attend event for auto lovers too, with more and more major manufacturers showing up each year, rolling out their high-tech wares to show the industry just how well they're keeping in touch with the broader world of tech.
In the fast-moving world of Web tech, being nimble is almost a prerequisite for survival.
Growing a notable following, especially in the scintillating world of enterprise tech, can be a challenge.
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It humorously skewers the world of high tech and its truth-is-stranger-than-fiction personalities.
Companies in any industry can take a lesson from the world of high-tech, where the concept of agile development has taken hold, leading to unprecedented iterative and fast development times, and new ways of thinking about team dynamics.
In the book, Stross challenges Y Combinator on one of the most hot-button issues of the tech world: the dearth of women.
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Gates and Jobs both came out of the world of hobbyists and tech enthusiasts who invented the personal computer.
Here in the small but intense world of writing for tech blogs, trolling and spam are a daily nuisance.
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But his unceremonious ouster from the company he created speaks, too, to how online and mobile coupons -- for a brief, shining moment the darlings of the tech world -- have fallen out of favor.
For those in the world of finance or in tech start-ups it doesn't do to be too circumspect about one's personal achievements.
Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen threw millions at building a "Wired World" global network of tech and media companies, with little to show for it.
It could give Silicon Valley a chance to address the problems that threaten its long-term ability to remain the world capital of high-tech: an overburdened infrastructure, skyrocketing house prices and increasing social inequality.
Santa Barbara has solid startup roots, hatching a number of world-class tech startups during the past 15 years, including: ValueClick, RingRevenue, lynda.com, Commission Junction, FindTheBest, Expertcity (creator of GoToMeeting), Sonos, Eucalyptus, Software.com, QAD and RightScale.
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Hewlett-Packard and Dell went to battle for the storage virtualization vendor to have competitive advantage in a world where the giants of tech offer to do it all for businesses by moving their data to the cloud.
One of the best places to observe the power of this addiction is in the tech world with its bumper crop of increasingly younger social entrepreneurs.
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For many of us in the tech world a typical webinar usually goes like this: you invite lots of people who then sign up on your website or through an event management service like Eventbrite.
Valve is eschewing the sort of dramatic overture popular in the tech world, preferring instead to play a game of inches.
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If so, they will have plenty of company -- courtesy of some of the tech world's biggest names.
These days using a Yahoo e-mail address carries all the cultural cachet of carrying a Zune, signaling membership in the bridge-and-tunnel crowd of the tech world.
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Tech world boosters of online social media tend to view it as inherently subversive to the established order and constantly tending to favor garage-shop challengers over entrenched incumbents.
Google 's splashy stock debut of 2004 and the frenzied activity of private equity and buyout funds last year weren't enough to stoke initial public offering activity in the world of lesser-known startup tech firms.
Despite the stepped-up activity, some art dealers still bemoan what they call the indifference of the tech world and write off tech billionaires as glorified engineering nerds who skipped art history to play with their computers.
Zynga conquered the world with a simple little farm simulator back in 2009, turning the company from a small Facebook startup into a social gaming titan that drew praise and vitriol from all corners of the tech world.
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