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Interview with Julie Novack, PartySlate

socalTECH

Unlike Yelp and listings sites that are focused on user-generated reviews or things like that, we're really a portfolio sharing site, and a tool of professionals. He and I connected, and walked through PartySlate and what we were doing, and he immediately said he wanted to invest and become an advisor to the company.

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Interview with Erik Rannala, MuckerLab

socalTECH

Erik Rannala: MuckerLab is a new startup accelerator, focused on incubation stage Internet, software, services, and media businesses here in LA. An example is we'll be holding events, which will be open to the broader technical community, and will not just be for Muckerlabs. It's a very similar model to YCombinator and TechStars.

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Better Business Bureau? For who?

Eric Greenspan

Then, they use the old fashioned scare tactic that if you don’t become a member, people will not be able to find you on their site and will become concerned about doing business with an unaccredited firm. He told me this was a service the BBB provided to its customers since they saved so much money on the same service.

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8 Incubators From Around the Country You Might Not Have Heard of Before

Tech.Co

The aim, according to the private college’s press release, is to provide “mentoring, advising and access to resources for up to 15 student- and community-run companies with a philanthropic twist.” ” The incubator had two clients at launch, and plans to offer its services to clients for a length of five years.

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The Top 10 Types of Douchebags in Tech and How NOT to Be One

Jason Nazar

The Uger-Annoying Service Provider. Being a service provider is one of the greatest professions and one that should engender a great deal of trust and always start and end with solving other people’s problems. The WannaBe Board of Advisor. What’s the Remedy: Don’t ever offer to be a Board of Advisor unless your asked first.

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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

TechEmpower

Often this situation is characterized as a “good problem to have” until you’re the technical person who needs to solve the problem—and quickly. Well, there are a number of technical reasons for applications suffering performance issues. Overall, performance is in the service of user expectations. So, why does this happen?

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8 Strategies For Sustaining Momentum In Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Based on my experience advising new entrepreneurs as well as more mature businesses, I recommend the following strategies for building business momentum, while still optimizing the limited resources of every small business: Find more customers that like what you do best. Most ecommerce sites highlight this feature.