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Taylor Freeman of UploadVR on Building a Passionate Culture for Good

Tech.Co

Taylor returned home and dove into learning web development and design on his own. He ended up building a digital agency that did everything from custom apps and web development to branding and digital marketing. Everyone is learning from each other and the corporate partners are looking for acquisition, talent, [and more].”

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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

Quick Web App Builder (QWAB) – parts prebuilt before competition. The coolest part about these products was that most of the were live working demos. Cool Car Pools for example, an application to help co-workers locate each other that they could carpool with, demoed an entire use case for us. Teams: CoderTie. Better Goals.

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Investors, MVPs and Evidence of Traction

SoCal CTO

Investors Really Want Evidence of Traction So you built your MVP; you bring it to the investor; you demo it; and I will guarantee they will ask you: "So how many users do you have? You may have to build something out to show it working for someone to evaluate whether it really works better than what else exists.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

Customer Acquisition. If you have multiple versions of your product, how many are web vs. mobile? Those two things together would lower your acquisition costs nearly in half to $6.11. Ironically, there are times where it may actually pay to INCREASE your customer acquisition costs. lowering $1.50 per customer!

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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

Tech Zulu Event

Divshot, a tool for web designers and developers, won a national pitch competition and one of it’s founders Michael Bleigh created a popular open source library now included in Ruby on Rails. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates.

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

Tech Zulu Event

Mobile Web America, Inc. 8:00 – 8:35pm – 5 five-minute demos, followed by brief Q&A for each company. Early-stage companies in the web, mobile and ecommerce space are encouraged to apply for the program which completes four cycles per year, culminating in Demo Days that are attended by the region’s top angel investors and VCs.

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Spotlight: LA Tech Summer Judges Includes BetterWorks, CallFire, Idealab, and Tech Coast Angeles

Tech Zulu Event

After the acquisition, MyMiniLife became the common technology platform at Zynga and powers 150M monthly users including games like Cityville, Farmville, and Frontierville. He is also an active investor with stakes in companies like Hipmunk, GroupMe, Facebook, Zynga (acquisition stock), and SV Angels. He received a B.S. RSVP: AGENDA.