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Interview with Brian McKelvey, Worlize

socalTECH

Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based startup Worlize (www.worlize.com) announced it had received a seed round of funding, and launched a firm to focus on social gaming and chat. The firm's CEO is Brian McKelvey , who we caught up with recently to learn more about his background, the firm, and the market it hopes to serve.

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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

Some experience developers, project managers, and even some designers. Product Design. Senior and junior Rails and mobile (javascript) developers familiar with b2b software. Some used Java, Ruby, jQuery while others used PHP, HTML, and CSS. All coming to join in on the fun. Development.

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GumGum Makes Images Profitable for Publishers

Tech Zulu Event

At the tender age of 15, Tanz teamed up with his friend Michael Schneider (the CEO of MobileRoadie ), to create the design firm Fluid Design. Early on GumGum began to experiment with overlaying rich media ads through Flash with photos until technology progressed and they moved over to Javascript. from Carnegie Mellon University.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

So eventually you have your company funded but only 2 of the 5 people who started the company are still around. Your contractor wrote a great V1 of the product and it helped you get angel funding. I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you?

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Fall Presenting Companies at UCLA

Tech Zulu Event

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Based in Los Angeles, we are software developers and designers that specialize in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Cloud Computing, Mobile Development, Application Design, and most importantly, helping you solve problems.

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Spotlight: LA Tech | One Year, Recap, and Thank You!

Tech Zulu Event

It’s the first performance-based marketing platform specifically designed for the music industry. Based in Los Angeles, we are software developers and designers that specialize in Ruby on Rails, JavaScript, Cloud Computing, Mobile Development, Application Design, and most importantly, helping you solve problems.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

socalTECH

We wanted to bring the beauty of data visualization, of actionable insights to people in a very easy, very fast, very simple but very well designed way. We were even funded back in 2006 by Adobe, to move over to Flex. What we did, is we made our first foray into HTML5 and Javascript. Mark Sylvester: It has been different.