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Los Angeles Web Developer

SoCal CTO

Just the kind of person I like to meet. :) But I was a bit surprised when he emphasized how hard it had been for them to find a web developer in Los Angeles. My flippant comment was, “If you do a Google search for Los Angeles web developer, you’ll find a LOT of people and firms.” So my flip suggestion was actually not all that helpful.

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Mark Suster Invests In Treehouse

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Mark Suster , the highly visible venture capitalist blogger at GRP Partners, has invested in UK-based TreeHouse , an online, video-focused site for helping users learn web design and development. Suster, in announcing the deal on his blog, did not say if his firm, GRP Partners, participated in the round.

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GRP Invests In Treehouse

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Los Angeles-based GRP Partners , has invested in UK-based TreeHouse , an online, video-focused site for helping users learn web design and development. GRP's investment was led by Mark Suster, who announced the deal on his blog. The deal was worth $600,000. READ MORE>>.

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Putting the Pedal to the Metal at Amplify

From the Venture Trenches

The Amplify partners are dedicated to helping their entrepreneurs build the best companies possible and they throw themselves into it with great passion. We heard how Jeff transitioned from a start-up founder to an institutional investor when he helped found Amplify towards the end of 2011.

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Amazon’s Selz Acquisition is Encouraging News for Small Businesses

Tech.Co

Martin Rushe, the CEO and founder of Selz wrote a blog post announcing the deal. Selz helps small businesses create online stores, as well as letting them add payment options to existing websites. Runs Shopify close with great sales features and has a Free Trial , but a small knowledge base and weaker website design let it down.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

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Plus, he told us a little bit about how he's helping to build a mini cluster of technology companies in the Silverlake area. It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. We had to figure out what would help the other 90 percent build better and more interesting sites.

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Interview: Lynda Weinman of Lynda.com

InfoChachkie

Messenger : Lynda Weinman , Co-Founder and Executive Chair, lynda.com and author of Designing Web Graphics , a world-wide bestseller, translated into 15 languages. Our motivation has always been to help people learn. This clearly helped you establish credibility in the early days of lynda.com. Copyright © 2007-11 by J.