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2009 Veterans Economic and Business Development Summit

SoCal Tech Calendar

Thursday, November 19, 2009 -- 2009 Veterans Economic and Business Development Summit. This event is designed to encourage and support Veterans and Service Disable Veteran Owned Small Businesses interested in obtain federal contract, learn more about contracting opportunities, the procurement process and resources available.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 5. Outsourcing

Frank Addante

2009 (3) ► May (1) A Tour of the Rubicon Project Headquarters ► April (1) "Pay it Forward" Event for Students & Aspiring Ent. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Under Process, Over Deliver So, you need to develop a product? ► October (1) New Video! .

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Why Selling To The Government Can Downgrade Your Startup

InfoChachkie

I am not a government contracting expert. In the parlance of government contracting, this approach is termed a “prime and sub-prime relationship.” The Downside Of Government Contracting. When the US government announced the 2009 Cash For Clunkers stimulus plan, it promised dealers they would receive payment “within 10-days.”

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Ostendo Raising Funds to Advance Virtual Reality Display Technology

Xconomy

Adding to the confusion, the most-recent MoneyTree Report on San Diego venture capital activity shows that Ostendo raised almost $10 million in VC funding during the second quarter. million contract to Ostendo to provide the Air Force with a synthetic-holographic 3D workstation prototype.

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How Nils Forsblom Is Reinventing Himself In Mobile With TenFarms

socalTECH

Nils Forsblom: TenFarms is a mobile app developer. In 2009, I got my green card and decided to move back here. It was the guy we'd outsourced as CEO. Only a few people posts polls, but people who have active accounts might vote maybe 300 times. What are TenFarms and PhotoPoll? So you're making multiple applications?

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

socalTECH

If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. Sendgrid started in Summer of 2009 at TechStars in Boulder, and we've now grown dramatically to 100 employees and 60,000 customers. Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. These funds were active back in 2006 when I was raising money for my second company. Spawning of Micro VCs.