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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

socalTECH

There's been a huge debate over the future of Adobe's Flash raging over the last month, as both Google and Mozilla disabled Flash due to security holes and other issues. I started a company, Neoganda, in the digital advertising area in 2005. Videos will not autoplay on a mobile device, just because you are using HTML5 code.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. In 2005 he was graduated and took a job in South Carolina working for technology company while he started his own web design company on the side. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. Felipe grew up in Brazil. More red tape.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

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Some wait 5-7 years but usually this is because it’s proving more difficult to raise a new fund due to market conditions or the lack of returns in their current fund. If you imagine that they did most of their initial investments between 2002-2007 then it’s been 3 years of mostly doing follow-on investments in those old deals.

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Interview with Scott Lahman, GOGII

socalTECH

We called the company GOGII--literally, our short text code of 60611, which you can looks a little like GOGII. Around 2005, those of us at JAMDAT thought Apple would disrupt the application space, so we approached Apple. That was our basis for doing something in text messaging.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

Both Sides of the Table

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. But software companies often take longer to scale top-line revenue than retailers so it takes a while to cover your nut.

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De-risk Your Startup By Doing It Again: The Joy Of Getting The Band Back Together

InfoChachkie

Alma mater, CallWave: 2005 IPO. Although the advantages usually outweigh the potential drawbacks, the negative aspects of Serial Teams should be heeded in order to minimize their impact: History – Serial Teams speak in shared code, based on their prior collective experiences. Copyright © 2007-10 by J. Meredith Publishing.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

Those crappy bots not only cost you money because they keep your server busy and increase your bandwidth bill, they actively decrease your advertising revenue because your visitors hit the back button when your page isn’t responsive due to the heavy bot traffic. It can get worse when a URI gets retweeted often.