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Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles?

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Saturday, February 17, 2007 Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles? About 18 months ago, the entire group began to mention that they were having more difficulty finding good developers. Im part of a CTO group that meets once a month to discuss various topics.

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Demand Media: $56.3M for Pluck, $5.0M For The Daily Plate

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for Pluck, a developer of social media tools, and paid $5.0M Demand Acquired Pluck in March of 2008, and The Daily Plate in January of 2008. According to the S-1, Demand paid $56.3M for The Daily Plate, a online diet and calorie tracking website.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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Shortcut: sebastian-x.com Blog About Blogroll Links How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague Posted on 12 January, 2010 The bot playground commonly refered to as “social media&# is responsible for shitloads of absurd cretinism.

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TZ Presents: ‘Nice Guys’ DO Finish First In Business | Fireside Chat With Greg Cargill

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TechZulu is excited to invite you to a fireside chat with Greg Cargill, VP of Client Services and Social Media at BLITZ. Greg will share his experience on how to Successfully Build and Sell an Effective Social Media Marketing Agency. There will be plenty of FREE Pizza & Drinks!

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Interview with Matt and Amanda MacNaughton, PromoJam

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What's the best way to get the word out about your brand on social media? Amanda MacNaughton: PromoJam is an enterprise, social marketing technology platform. Matt MacNaughton: Our mantra, is to reach social media users everywhere. We're hiring senior developers, and we're also focusing on sales operations as well.

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Microsoft’s $1.2 Billion Acquisition of Yammer Complete

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Yammer’s goal was to change the way companies operate just as social media did to individuals. They set out to give companies social media use as an upper hand for business success. Yammer was launched in 2008 and raised $142 million then. It’s reported to have nearly 5 million users.

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Realistic Entrprenuers Guide to Venture Capital

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Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. Mobile Internet Apple Facebook ► 2009 (32) ► December (3) Startup Software Developers Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Be.