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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

socalTECH

If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. It turns out it's not just a quick line of code to send an email -- it's also a hassle to make sure that those emails get delivered, that your email isn't classified as spam, and handling all sorts of delivery issues.

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How This Startup Turned An April Fools Joke Into Customers

InfoChachkie

Last week, Divshot turned a simple April Fool''s Day joke into a marketing coup, generating nearly 6,000 Tweets and over a thousand Beta customers. Unlike many viral marketing events, the company''s latest guerilla marketing stunt was not luck. Geo was a lightly veiled reference to Geocities, a Web 1.0 Don''t Force It.

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Where LinkedIn Works for Me

SoCal CTO

Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them. When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out. User Interface Beyond the Web Site ► November (7) Negative Customer Acquisition Costs - Creative Sta.

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Moofaces | Who You Know Matters

Tech Zulu Event

Moofacese is out to help those opportunities thrive when is comes to the jobs market. As you can see on my profile I picked, entrepreneur, writer, and web developer – all of which description me and what I do. No, it’s not another LinkedIn or something similar. Or I would reply back with, “depends on the day.”

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The Guts, The Glory, and The (Virtual) Gold of Bragstr, with Jon Knarreborg

socalTECH

Jon Knarreborg: I had run a few websites, including GirlGamer.com, and I did lots of partnerships on that site. My partner, Eric Swanson, was running the marketing department for his father's company. My experience is in web development, as well as online branding and marketing, and there's a good match between the two of us.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

Divshot's Founders conceived of their innovative web development solution, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process, during a Startup Weekend event in Kansas City. If we hadn’t done well on Hacker News we would have needed to have some serious product/market fit discussions.".

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

<Note: I edited a few comments from Jeff's email, none of which related to our meeting in 2008.> Despite our business model reservations, we were sufficiently intrigued by Jeff and the opportunity to seek technical and market feedback from a VoIP expert. > -jeff. Tech Diligence - Consider The Source.