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Should Our Schools Teach Latin or HTML?

Eric Greenspan

I now make a living knowing WordPress, CSS, HTML and of course search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing. So it makes me wonder, should our schools teach Latin or HTML? Learning Latin has its uses; learning HTML, technology and other future skills, can make them a living and help them solve world problems. Marketing maniac.

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Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

InfoChachkie

As part of UC Santa Barbara’s Distinguished Lecture Series, serial entrepreneur and noted venture capitalist Mark Suster recently shared his advice with a large crowd of emerging entrepreneurs. In the last six weeks, I have been pitched by five entrepreneurs under 20. Learn HTML. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Interview with Rahul Sonnad, Geodelic

socalTECH

A few weeks ago, Rahul Sonnad --a serial entrepreneur who is best known for founding and selling thePlatform to Comcast--alternately confused and dazzled attendees at Twiistup, the Los Angeles tech conference, with a fake-stilted-Indian-immigrant and ukulele-singing-and-dancing studded pitch for his firm, Geodelic (www.geodelic.com).

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Get Your Website Out of the Internet Dead Zone

Startup Professionals Musings

A while back I emphasized how important is to have a company website these days ( Startups Without a Website Won’t Start ). Unless someone searches for your company by name, it won’t show up in the results. Yet my random poll of a dozen company sites found 25% were missing even the most basic tag info. Marty Zwilling.

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How Nix Hydra's Egg Baby Cracked The Code For Female Gamers

socalTECH

The company just raised a $5M funding round for its efforts, from Foundry Group and a number of angels. We sat down with Lina Chen and Naomi Ladizinsky , co-founders of Nix Hydra, to learn more about their hit game, Egg Baby, the perils of trying to get funding as female entrepreneurs, and what they''re working on next.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

socalTECH

The service was created by experience serial entrepreneurs Mark Sylvester and KymberleeWeil, who some might know from creating service introNetworks. We're entrepreneurs, and we like to build our business, and wish we were known a little more. Our roots are in Flash, and in fact the company came about as a project for Macromedia.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

In the case of the entrepreneur that was the genesis of this post, he had done a lot on paper. Some places you can find programmers locally: In your company or other companies. In this case, these sites didn't pan out all that well for the entrepreneur. Again, if you don't know you should ask people who will know.

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