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Software Development Companies in Southern California

SoCal CTO

As part of doing that, I've had the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of different chief technical officers from different kinds of companies over those years. This is a private group of CTOs who are responsible for software development within their companies. or focused on industry or type of company.

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SpotOn raises $300M at a $3.15B valuation and acquires Appetize

TechCrunch LA

Today, SpotOn said it has closed on $300 million in Series E financing that values the company at $3.15 Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) led both the Series D and E rounds for the company, which says it has seen 100% growth year over year and a tripling in revenue over the past 18 months. Image Credits: SpotOn.

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Taylor Freeman of UploadVR on Building a Passionate Culture for Good

Tech.Co

Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. He ended up building a digital agency that did everything from custom apps and web development to branding and digital marketing. The company caught the attention of investor from China and secured a seed-funding round around $1.5

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Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – Steve Gilison

SoCal CTO

Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. It’s very difficult to communicate the value of my services and it’s even harder to find people/companies looking to outsource their product development to a business guy like myself.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based Aggregage (www.aggregage.com) is looking to help aggregate the content across multiple blog publishing sites, and curate that information into specific, B2B niche vertical web sites. Entertainment is confusing--we didn't make investments in pure content plays. Halprin, a company called Modern Feed.

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Web Second, Mobile First

Both Sides of the Table

I know that they really impacted an entire cohort of startups because every company that was coming to pitch me businesses was (is) saying, “I’m a ‘mobile first’ company.” ” Maybe people could shorten that to “Web Second” as a reminder to not give up on the power of the tethered web.

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A Day in the Life of a Product Manager

Tech Zulu Event

An example from Fullscreen: Optimizing user analytics tracking on a Fullscreen product, only to find out Facebook (which his company uses to broadcast user content) had completely changed their layout. His Product experience spans various industries such as Mortgage Banking, Dating, Online Ecommerce, and Entertainment.

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