TechEmpower

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Happy Halloween fans of web development frameworks! After a several-month hiatus, Round 7 of our project measuring the performance of web application frameworks and platforms is available! We have several enhancements we''d like to make to the benchmark tool set (Python scripts), time permitting. View Round 7 results now.

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Framework EC2 TechEmpower Writing 507

socalTECH

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Los Angeles- and Austin-based GameSalad , which develops software which helps people create iOS, Android, and web games, said Friday that its software now supports Windows 8 application development. GameSalad's tools allow users to create mobile applications and games without having to write code. READ MORE>>.

Steamboat Ventures 187

Steamboat Ventures Writing Web Los Angeles 187

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 25, 2023

The cost of entry has never been lower, with new tools to create your own website , and free social media to get your message out everywhere. Make sure the name and trademarks you want are available, as well as web site address, social media tags, and any other intellectual property. Pick a name, location, and marketing strategy early.

Social Media 98

Social Media Metrics Media Tool 98

Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

Luckily, there’s an abundance of lead generation tools that busy professionals can use to start building a subscriber base without investing too much time. This tool significantly cut the time it takes to implement the layout I want to use on a landing page. Here are some of the best ones I’ve used so far: Beaver Builder.

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Jason Nazar

AUGUST 15, 2013

The 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web. “If There are 7 Ways to Get Traffic on the Web, in no weighted order they are: 1.) Helpful Resources about Search Engine Traffic : 68 Helpful SEO Tools. Other than paying for traffic with advertising, there are only so many ways to get people to show up at your door. Social Media.

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Web Social Media Content Sites 61

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 30, 2019

In addition, the discipline of producing it, like writing a business plan, will help you immensely in understanding the key elements that drive you and your business. I often hear the excuse that writing a book takes precious time away from building and running your business, which you cannot afford.

Writing 19

Writing Technical Review Entrepreneur Advertising 19

SoCal CTO

APRIL 2, 2013

They look at the following high level definition of Lean: and they interpret that as write up an executive summary with your ideas and hand it to developers to build. Do you have a Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One ? Learn how to test and possibly use testing and load tools. What's going to go wrong?

CTO Coach 219

CTO Coach Metrics Framework Software Development 219

socalTECH

OCTOBER 4, 2012

You've got a great idea for a web video series, but how do you learn about how to make that happen, to get distribution, and monetize that video? Los Angeles-based CreatorUp (www.creatorup.com) wants to help aspiring online video producers with an online web education series. Michael Tringe: We are an online web series school.

Web 187

Web Content Startup Education 187

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 11, 2011

We talked about a lot of great stuff in the video including how to do sales calls and a how a new “culture of writing&# is emerging as a critical skill set in business today. One in a list, one with a quiz, one with a cut-out tool – let’s see what takes off. That’s why people turn up to Buzzfeed.

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Buzzfeed Content Tips Blogging 354

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

The volume of Tweets is enormous and growing at a rapid pace so tools are emerging to help brands manage this information. Twitter, by contrast, started as an open platform where people let anybody see what they were writing. People write their thoughts knowing that anybody else can see them.

Social Network 235

Social Network Writing Tool Startup 235

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2019

These days, customers want two-way relationships, and people who follow your writing will feel this bond. Hone your writing style for all communication. Writing improves with practice, and real reader comments, so blogging is a valuable learning process or every business communication you need to do.

Blogging 85

Blogging Search Engine Optimization Writing SEO 85

socalTECH

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Scripped (www.scripped.com) is applying the world of Web 2.0 to the business of script writing, and is looking to combine a free online tool for writing scripts with matching those scripts with content producers. Are you targeting Hollywood and existing script writing software? What's Scripped?

Content 138

Content Writing Software Review Hollywood 138

socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Los Angeles-based FreedomSpeaks.com an online web site focused on political social networking, said Tuesday that it has launched a new application programming interface (API) targeted at helping developers tap into information about publicly elected officials. The firm said its API provides access to over 10,000 public official profiles.

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Develop Development Social Network Web Development 100

SoCal CTO

DECEMBER 19, 2012

He is not a technical person, but is somewhat web savvy. And in the case of defining mobile/web/software, there is even more variability in terms of form and format. You likely are writing your first one of these. I was talking with an early-stage founder who has a product vision and wants to get it built.

Develop 354

Develop Development Technical Review CTO Coach 354

Jason Nazar

JANUARY 14, 2009

There are 7 Ways to Get (unpaid) Traffic on the Web , in no weighted order they are: 1.) Wikipedia and About are two of the most popular sites on the web, but the majority of their traffic comes from referrals from search engines, not people going directly to their site. Search Engines. Referring Traffic / Press. Social Media.

Web 62

Web Social Media Content Sites 62

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

Frankly, it’s the life of ANY executives with whom you want to sell product, do a business development deal with, execute M&A, a journalist you want to write about your company?—?anybody. I know this sounds exaggerated but this is the life of an investor.

Software Review 381

Software Review Startup Email Conference 381

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2010

The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. Lee Essner is formerly a senior exec from WeddingChannel and has much experience in running a successful web property. with the clips.

Company 276

Company Companies Startup Southern California 276

InfoChachkie

APRIL 16, 2012

Large companies write business plans, why of course, that’s the organizing document for a startup. Yet we took this document, the business plan, because we knew nothing else and said, ‘Go write one of these.’. Customer development, in hindsight… was the first of… an emerging stack of entrepreneurial management tools.”.

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Startup Class Press Custom Development 229

socalTECH

AUGUST 10, 2011

Effectively, what Corey and I are trying to do, is distill the course of opinions on the web, and turn that into a consumable format. Instead, what we have tried to do, is turn the social web into a sort of representative democracy. When you stick that plugin on a blog you are writing, it scans the article for names.

Startup 174

Startup Blogging Writing Examples 174

Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 24, 2010

I stumbled upon the Question, “ What-is-the-motivation-behind-writing-public-reviews-and-tips-as-on-Amazon-Yelp-Foursquare-StickyBits-etc &# and took the bait. Or let’s face it – writing lots of answers on Quora. But my post today is not about Quora, it’s about an answer that I wrote on Quora.

Technical Review 294

Technical Review Writing Content Sites 294

socalTECH

MARCH 12, 2013

The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.

CTO Hire 248

CTO Hire Content Networking Web 248

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 11, 2015

This can be a real challenge since a lot of the tools that are used by the different teams can take a lot of time to learn and/or setup. All these tools below have allowed the teams I work with to use one or more of these tools to contribute and collaborate on a project. But I still do sitemaps in a tool called: lucidcharts.com.

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Software Development Develop Development Software 40

socalTECH

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Last night, Santa Monica-based Factual (www.factual.com), the data provider and data tools firm, announced a big, $25M funding round from Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures. Gil Elbaz: The primary developer demographic for our products is people building web and mobile applications.

Artificial Inteligence 203

Artificial Inteligence Century City Web Santa Monica 203

Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 10, 2013

Download free website tools. Many hosting services offer free tools, or will build a default website for you. Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via PayPal or credit card), including this Top Ten list for 2013 , or fall back to the old standby DreamWeaver by Adobe.

Sites 78

Sites Commerce Startup Tool 78

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2011

I've been doing that, and building the tools and networks for those brands for a long time, but I wanted to try my hand at an actual, physical product. However, I saw that the people building traditional products were still not familiar with the social web. We feel we've build, from the ground up, an internet brand.

Web 225

Web Social Media SEO Media 225

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Not just URLs that the developer created, but snippets of their source code that show how they write (comments, formatting, etc). ? Even if you can’t read the code, if it looks organized, and you see a mix of English words (comments) around code that looks like it has structure, then you can get an idea of how they organize things.

CTO Hire 81

CTO Hire Outsource Development Develop Development 81

socalTECH

JUNE 30, 2011

That would also give them one, unified platform for Facebook on the web, mobile tablet platforms, and so on, so that every time they release a new version of their platform it will work on every mobile phone, whether that was Android, Windows, or Blackberry. Right now, those Facebook apps only work on the web.

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Activision Platform Startup Mobile 217

Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 14, 2014

Download free website tools. Many hosting services offer free tools, or will build a default website for you. Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via credit card), including this Top Ten list for 2014. Personalize a simple web site.

Startup 100

Startup Commerce Sites Blogging 100

Tech Zulu Event

NOVEMBER 11, 2011

For how to market your blog in order to get site visitors I suggest checking out the Marketing Show and if you can attend the next Pub Con it is one the best conferences to learn about getting web traffic. One of the hardest things about being a blogger is drawing that line between being a business owner and writing for passion.

Blogging 83

Blogging Email Writing Sites 83

Tech Zulu Event

MAY 28, 2013

Tools and efficiencies powered by the cloud. Alex is a proven web entrepreneur, having led and sold multiple successful startups. Prior to starting KnowledgeBase, Alex founded HostPro, an industry-leading web hosting and application services provider. Finding business agility in the cloud. Chief Digital Officers. Alex Kazerani.

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SaaS Cloud Computing CIO Web 92

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

In writing anything positive about any of the companies I’m not suggesting that it means that I prefer them to any of their competitors. Also, some of the deals I write about I have actually seen as part of their fund raising process. I just cover the companies that were funded that week. Really!). 5.0mm in Series C.

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Venture Capital Capital Email Blogging 265

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

Download free website tools. Many hosting services offer free tools, or will build a default website for you. Other popular tools are available at low cost, with built-in e-commerce capabilities (pay via PayPal or credit card), including FrontPage in the Microsoft Office Suite, and DreamWeaver by Adobe. Start simple.

Commerce 99

Commerce Startup Sites Tool 99

InfoChachkie

DECEMBER 10, 2012

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. We’re a tool for hackers, designers, and entrepreneurs - effectively everyone who reads Hacker News. Hacker Downside.

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News Sites Startup RSS 198

Tech Zulu Event

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

We were doing this one product called “Small Business Hires”, similar to the employer app we launched today, all web-based. I think the most important thing we can do is to provide useful tools and help people use them. Do you have a web component of Proven? PF: There is a web component and people do use it.

Mobile 86

Mobile Marketing Writing Startup 86

SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. The bad news is that Finding Developers is Tough Here in Los Angeles and even people willing to pay have a hard time finding Web Development in Los Angeles. LinkedIn - This remains one of my primary tools. Here's an example of that kind of email.

CTO Hire 211

CTO Hire CTO Coach Startup Equity 211

InfoChachkie

JANUARY 31, 2011

Value Prop Twitter Style : ZipRecruiter enables employers to post to multiple free job boards with one submission – the fastest way to get a job online across the web. We just made it really, really easy to get a job online across the web in a couple minutes. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for.

MyLife 160

MyLife CitySearch Web Technical Review 160

socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2010

Plus, there's always shoulder surfing--when people write them down, and are grabbing for your daytimer or spreadsheet for passwords--that's treating passwords like it's the 1950's, and leaving your front door key under a door mat. Instead of the Internet being bad, with the filtering and security tools, we made it a productive tool.

Technology 124

Technology Web Sites Orange County 124