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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

Common revenue streams are consulting, training, support, customization, upgraded versions for corporate applications, etc. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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How Helpr Wants To Bring On-Demand To Babysitting

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One of the latest is Los Angeles-based Helpr (www.helpr-app.com), which recently launched to help parents find babysitters for their children. Becka is also co-founder of Female Founders Los Angeles (FFLA). We wanted to bring together the babysitters and nannies in the community, and started working with them as contracts.

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CurbStand: Looking To Create A Valet Parking Network

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Los Angeles-based CurbStand (www.curbstand.com) is hoping to change that, by offering up a mobile app which connects you with the company''s network of CurbStand valet parking companies, which offers on-demand retrieval of your car, mobil payments, and on the valet parking operator side--lots of business analytics tools and reporting.

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How Jukin Media Is Turning Viral Video Into A Real Business

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And, even more, how to do you manage the jump on the viral video train again, and keep those viral hits coming? That''s relevant, because of our third piece, where we have been hired by traditional media companies, to basically provide them a turnkey, outsources content acquisition team.

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Interview with Robin Richards, Internships.com

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We spoke to Robin about the new startup, his executive team, as well as his angel investing activity here. We've also hired a tremendous set of experience career counselors, who have had colorful or substantial careers, to supply services and products to our students. As an aside, I see you've been active as an angel here in LA?

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. If they don’t have a call center already with trained sales reps answering calls, they’re probably not a good fit.”. We met with a ton of VC’s and angels. We’re always hiring great people.

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Interview with Jason Howe, CEO of Awarepoint

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I think we've got a great team, with the right product, at the right time in the market. Jason Howe: Yes, it's a Series D, though our Series A was an angel funding. It's a great time for that, because there's lots of talent out there. What will that funding go towards--it was a Series D?

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