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Launching a Startup in your spare time

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009 -- Launching a Startup in your spare time: Case Study from Manvite.com. How can you get a web startup going without leaving your day job? Two friends, a marketing executive and a software engineer, had an idea to challenge a large web incumbent without leaving their day jobs.

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Interview with Neville Spiteri, TheBlu

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Neville Spiteri: We are a digital media startup, building a next generation studio that it is focusing on creating entertainment and web media, that scales to tens of hundreds of thousands of people, and potentially millions around the world. We see the web having untapped potential for creating its own medium for artistic expression.

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Southern California Technology Jobs Surge

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"It's been tough to shake people loose from companies," Stuart Macfarlane , CEO of El Segundo-based iChange , explains, saying that the firm is actively looking to hire two to three web developers. Mangers said that it appears that for companies that have survived the storm of 2009 and the economy, things are looking up.

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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. He covered the topic again in June 2009 titled Invent, Invent, Invent. Crazy, huh?

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Programs in NYC and LA prepare autistic students to excel in tech careers

StartUp Beat

Founded in 2009, and now partnered with the NYU Tandon School of Engineering , Tech Kids Unlimited (TKU) is a not-for-profit organization that provides digital workforce training to hundreds of New York students on the autism spectrum. Geeking out with Tech Kids Unlimited. Coding Autism’s CEO Oliver Thornton.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

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A web telephony pioneer and serial entrepreneur, Burr will oversee sales and marketing while expanding the range of clients served and building vendor, partner and investor relationships, according to CallFire CEO and Co-Founder Dinesh Ravishanker.