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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. READ MORE>>.

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5 Startup Funding Models That Depend On The Consumer

Startup Professionals Musings

The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. Of course, there are thousands of other companies that don’t achieve their minimum goal, requiring all contributions to be returned. Product pre-order model. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

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Signal Sciences: Protecting Web Apps In The Era Of DevOps, with Andrew Peterson

socalTECH

In today's world of web application development, speed is everything. Developers are now turning out code and releasing it live to the world in near real time--what is called DevOps and Agile development. With the rise of the cloud and Agile, it's really changed how developer are coding their websites.

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5 Crowdfunding Approaches To Tempt Every Entrepreneur

Startup Professionals Musings

The crowd gets the satisfaction of helping, with minimal risk, and no expectation of any high return. Of course, there are thousands of other companies that don’t achieve their minimum goal, requiring all contributions to be returned. Product pre-order model. Other popular sites for startups, including StartupNation and Startups.co

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Pragmatism with Flavor

TechEmpower

As software developers, we're technophiles, so we enjoy these cycles and quite often find humor listening to the energy spent arguing on either side of issues. Through our fifteen years, we've been charged with helping clients get business done with technology. Does it help our clients sell more widgets or deliver with fewer headaches?

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Don’t Be Fooled By All The Hype For Crowd Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

This is a variation on the two previous ones, where investors get the satisfaction of helping, and immediately get a pre-determined reward or perk of value, such as a t-shirt, or other recognition, but no equity or finished product. Of course, this might also lead to investors, partners, and licensing opportunities.

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