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Frameworks Round 6

TechEmpower

July marks the fourth month of our ongoing project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms. We''ve just posted Round 6, which includes several more developer community-provided framework test implementations: Beego, Dart, Hapi, Jester, Luminus, Nancy, Yaf, Plack, Play-Slick, and Undertow. We are hiring.

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Student-Driven 3D Game Engine Development: Practical Approach

SoCal Tech Calendar

Speaker: Artem Kovalovs, Gameplay programmer at Visceral Games, Electronic Arts, Los Angeles. He will use the example of PrimeEngine PC/XBox360 framework that was built in the USC GamePipe classes. Kovalovs will talk about building student-driven 3D game engines and what can be done to minimize the development time.

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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

Both Sides of the Table

The world still has economic challenges that often aren’t perceived by many of us the tech world in our little cocoons of Silicon Valley, NYC or Los Angeles. Example: More than 50% of all youth in Greece & Spain (34% in Italy) are unemployed and if you take “under-employment” it is even worse. But what else?

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

Both Sides of the Table

*. If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. There was Ron Conway (SV Angel) – I think there was always Ron Conway! And some angels running around like Reid Hoffman & Keith Rabois.

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How Mobile Is Changing Oversee's Business, With Debra Domeyer

socalTECH

We recently chatted with Debra Domeyer , CEO of Oversee.net (www.oversee.net), a Los Angeles company which provides both domain monetization and runs vertical, consumer lead generation and marketing sites, to hear about the company. We're very big in the Agile framework. They now all take a couple of weeks to 30 days at most to build.

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Is Strategic Money an Oxymoron?

Both Sides of the Table

So I thought I’d try to lay out a framework for how you should think about it as many you will inevitably be faced with this experience. When you deal with doctors or dentists for angel money, for example, you’re dealing with people who don’t. And I had 2 “strategic&# investors in my first company.

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Stem: Simplifying Payments For Creatives, With Milana Rabkin

socalTECH

The company recently raised $8M in a funding from Evolution Media, Aspect Ventures, Upfront Ventures, as well as a long list of angels. An example was Rob Thomas, the Producer of Veronica Mars, where we helped him partner with Kickstarter to help fund the Veronica Mars movie. What is Stem?

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