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Software Development Companies in Southern California

SoCal CTO

I've helped organize the Los Angeles CTO Forum for almost 10 years. In a recent conversation with a fellow CTO, we lamented about the fact that while there's very active software development and web development going on in Southern California and West Los Angeles, yet there didn't seem to be as much of a community around it.

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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

Both Sides of the Table

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. But I’m no longer an entrepreneur – I’m a VC at a $200 million fund called GRP Ventures , the largest active fund in Southern California.

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Attention Startup Accelerators: Your Job Is Not Over After Demo Day

InfoChachkie

Obtaining funding is a key milestone, but equally important is helping fledgling companies build institutional mass once they leave the relatively safe confines of an accelerator. Savvy entrepreneurs - seek out programs which incorporate these post-graduation activities. Convert Graduate-Founders Into Mentors.

Startup 100
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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

socalTECH

How do you sort through all that social media activity you are driving, and figure out who really cares about what you're posting? Those folks are any tool they can find to help them, any new tool they find. But, they were an HTML app on a LAMP stack. Our goal is to help people spot what is working for them, and optimize.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

Both Sides of the Table

The interesting thing about working with angels (the tech founder kind) is that they’ve all run their own startups before so there is instant resonance with what you’re going through, the issues you’ll face and how to best help. at a level of specificity you don’t always find in VCs.

Angel 302
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5 Apps To Get The Most Out Of Your Philips Hue Lights 

Tech Zulu Event

To help you get the most out of your Hues, I tested 20 of the most popular, highly rated iOS apps to come up with a top 5 list of must-have apps for using your Hue light bulbs (iOS is the dominant platform for Hue control, and all these below work on both iPads and iPhones): 1. Set a lamp color to indicate today’s temperature.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

The CitizenNet platform helps you measure, analyze, and automate social media marketing and engagement. Codeita lets you design, code, and publish all from a cloud-based LAMP development environment. Mark founded Launchpad LA, a program designed to help mentor LA’s most promising first-time startup CEO’s. Want to sponsor?

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