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Former Snap employees are launching Forge Platform for Ethereum devs

TechCrunch LA

Ultimately Forge will bring a suite of products to market for distributed application developers, but for now the company is focused on a service to provide insight into the performance of smart contracts over the Ethereum network. “The others are really interesting projects but they were also where Ethereum was a few years ago.”

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iRise Launches Loyalty Program

socalTECH

The company said that users can qualify for the program by completing a two-day certification course, available both online and in-person. iRise offers up its software to corporations to help them visualize and develop their enterprise applications. irise loyalty software visualization enterprise application development'

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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, there are thousands of other companies that don’t achieve their minimum goal, requiring all contributions to be returned. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. Donation good-cause model. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

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Los Angeles Startup Events

SoCal CTO

Of course, given the size of this list and having kids, I really can't attend a lot of these. So, you may also want to go look at: Los Angeles Startup Events Here are some of the events and meetups that I've spoken at, attended or at least interest me. So, if you happen to read this and want to meet me, just reach out directly.

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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

Of course, there are thousands of other companies that don’t achieve their minimum goal, requiring all contributions to be returned. With this model, a startup pre-sells their product early, at a cheaper price, in exchange for a pledge. Donation good-cause model. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

SoCal CTO

Quality of Events Of course, the bigger issue with events is finding the ones where you will have a really good opportunity to network with interesting people. They put on great events. I guess I should confess that I used to go to a lot more networking events.

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

Although we spend plenty of time researching and developing with new technologies based on desire and need, we don't want our clients to be guinea pigs (unless that's the nature of their business, of course). Jeff Bezos loves web application inefficiency. Project needs vary, of course, so technology chemistries vary in turn.

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