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Los Angeles Startup Weekend August 2011 | The Complete Breakdown

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We also had awesome group of mentors that included: David Waxman (Co-founder of PeoplePC, Spot Runner and Firefly Network), Paige Craig (CEO of BetterWorks ), Josh MacAdam (Co-founder/CTO at Ming.ly Feel free to email or drop a tweet with any questions about the journey, no matter what stage you’re in.

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Interview with Scott Ferreira, MySocialCloud

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By the end of my sophomore year, I decided to go after this full time, and that's when I officially brought on a CTO, Shiv Prakash, and we went at it in the summer of 2011, and the rest is kind of history. We understand this whole effort was actually backed by Sir Richard Branson? Scott Ferreira: Yes, that's correct.

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amSTATZ Social Network For Fitness Gurus, Athletes & Events | Interview With Founder

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Founded in the summer of 2011 and their first product out a few weeks ago amSTATS wants to help users to follow fitness events and programs near them and find a great fitness trainer to help them stay fit. Sergey Belyankin is our Chief Technology Officer. How many users?

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Gabi Sorts & Ranks What’s Important to You | Interview With CEO Stefanie Hoffmann

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We started thinking about new ways of interacting with social networks in November 2011. I was the CEO of aki-aki and Gabriel Palomino was the CTO. We also have feedback from some of our users, we receive emails like, “Gabi makes me fall in love with Facebook again.” Gabi is nearly eight months old.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

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Our Best Interviews Via Email: Monthly. Cyrus Farudi is an American entrepreneur who co-founded Flipswap, Inc in 2004 and Capsule in 2011. Founded in 2011 with the goal of saving lives through soap, Jack’s gives one bar away every time one is sold. Matt Miller – Co-Founder and CTO of CareerBliss.com. Email Address.

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What are the Technical Performance Requirements for your Startup?

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It was originally written in 2011 and has had amazing staying power. I find myself sending it to startup founders all the time – maybe just slightly less than Free Startup CTO Consulting. By far the most popular post on this blog is 32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter.