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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.” And he’s right there’s a big difference.

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Mark Suster Invests In Treehouse

socalTECH

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. READ MORE>>.

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GRP Invests In Treehouse

socalTECH

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

Filed under: Accelerator , Blogging , Branding , Design Agency , Digital Strategy , Entrepreneurs , Founders , Responsive Design , Seed Funding , Startup , User Experience , Venture Capital , Web Design Tagged: Amplify , Eric Garcetti , Greenberg Glusker , NextSpace , Social media marketing , Sony Interactive , Staples Center.

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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. Runs Shopify close with great sales features and has a Free Trial , but a small knowledge base and weaker website design let it down. A good alternative to BigCommerce with better web design. Can be confusing to use, though.

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ServiceNow Buys San Diego Specialist in Customer Experience, Design

Xconomy

ServiceNow chose us because of the design culture and process we have created over the last 17 years,” Telepathy co-founder and CEO Chuck Longanecker wrote Monday in a blog post announcing the deal. The design studio, founded as a digital agency in 2001, has focused increasingly on data-driven design and improved user experience.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. We started working on local web design projects, but got sick of that in six months. Early on in college, we built a product called Blog Hoster, which allowed you to create white label blogs.

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