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Burnout Game Ventures working to create 50 gaming firms, 1,000 jobs - Orlando Business Journal

Thu, 06/11/2015 - 06:53 -- rprice

Burnout Game Ventures plans to increase Central Florida's role as an active area for game development by taking in gaming firms and working with them to churn out a marketable video game product in six months or less. The company functions as an incubator for video game developers, training them on what they need to know in order for their idea to succeed.

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Maker Studios and Full Sail launch new digital studio - Orlando Business Journal

Fri, 03/20/2015 - 13:54 -- rprice

up to 24 full-time jobs — all related to production — would be created within a year for REBL HQ, but specifics on the average salary for those jobs was not available. During the March 20 media event and tour of the estimated 4,000-square-foot studio, officials announced that two productions were already being worked on due to the partnership. One project is called Love Gianna, which is an original series featuring actress Gianna Simone. The program launched March 20 via YouTube channel. The second project, which launches March 28, is called Full Sail Game Maker Challenge.

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Collaborative interviews with code editor, video and voice | Codassium

Tue, 03/10/2015 - 05:17 -- rprice

Codassium is the next best thing to an in-person interview, minus the logistical expenses. You get a collaborative code editor with syntax highlighting, video conferencing, code execution and a collaborative Linux terminal. Schedule interviews, send out calendar invites and share notes with your team effortlessly from one convenient platform.

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"The Iron Yard" bringing coding curriculum to Orlando - FOX 35 News Orlando

Tue, 12/02/2014 - 13:54 -- rprice

A new company called the Iron Yard will soon call half of the first floor home. It is a private school that promises to teach students computer web coding in 12-weeks. Iron Yard Instructor David Rogers said, "You're training for a job. You're training to be a front-end engineer in an entry-level position."      The Iron Yard's been around for 4 years and is already in five other cities.      The company says it chose Orlando in part because of the city's focus on growing a digital main street.

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5 New Design Careers for the 21st Century | Design Thinking

Wed, 11/05/2014 - 14:29 -- rprice

* The Designer Coder in today’s online, app-based economy, the preferred prototyping medium is increasingly code * The Design Entrepreneur Just look at Uber or Airbnb. If you have the design skills to craft the right product—and the entrepreneurial grit to see things through * The Hybrid Design Researcher more traditional methods are now being combined with real-time data to reveal user behavior. * The Business Designer In truly disruptive innovations, all aspects of the business are up for grabs. Think about the early days of Google.

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Software People Should Learn "Art Thinking" ⚙ Co.Labs ⚙ code + community

Thu, 10/03/2013 - 12:39 -- rprice

1. Schedule Studio Time. The goal is simply to cordon off protected time. 2. Coordinate. (AKA Don't Repeat Yourself, or the left hand should know what the right hand is doing) 3. Prove the Rule by Disproving it. embrace failure as a brainstorming tool. What are the biggest, most important, most relevant questions that you believe certainly that you cannot answer? 4. Go Off the Grid. when you are most driven to conclusion, ask yourself the question you are trying to answer. You may have assumed limitations. The pause lets you realize the actual question is bigger. 5. Designate producers.

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Is An MFA The New MBA? | Fast Company | Business + Innovation

Thu, 05/30/2013 - 05:10 -- rprice

What’s more, regardless of whether they work in the arts or in other businesses, more then three-quarters of arts graduates say that critical thinking, creativity, and the ability to work with others are skills they both learned in school and use on a regular basis in their current work. Arts graduates are plucky and understand how to use their creative skills in a variety of settings.

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Florida among top states for ‘app economies’ - Orlando Business Journal

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 10:27 -- rprice

In Florida, apps have an annual economic impact of $587 million, which is the eleventh-highest app economic impact of any state in the U.S., according to a new study from CTIA – The Wireless Association and the Application Developers Alliance.

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Florida among top states for ‘app economies’ - Orlando Business Journal

Thu, 12/20/2012 - 10:27 -- rprice

In Florida, apps have an annual economic impact of $587 million, which is the eleventh-highest app economic impact of any state in the U.S., according to a new study from CTIA – The Wireless Association and the Application Developers Alliance.

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