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Performance competition is a good thing

TechEmpower

If you've not been watching the ASP.NET team's community standups , you have missed some surprisingly transparent, interesting, and oftentimes funny updates from a major web application framework development team. We deeply feel that competition of this sort is a good thing. Every time I watch one I marvel, this is Microsoft?

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Finding Startup Developers - First Email Contact

SoCal CTO

I'm working on a start up idea in the XXX market with my partner and we are currently looking for full stack developer to join us as a technical co-founder. If they had read either of the above articles or the 10 other on my blog, then they would have sent me something else. So, why should I spend time if they've not spent time?

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Data Scientist Team Share Lessons Learned From Competition

Tech.Co

When you’re in a competition and on the spot, answering questions to industry experts can be a nerve-wrecking process. This competition required the team to answer “…questions on a Food and Nutrition data set that contained 28 features and 30,000+ rows. This article is courtesy of the Galvanize blog.

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China Roundup: Tencent’s new US gaming studio and WeChat’s new paywall

TechCrunch LA

Eleven-year-old TiMi currently has a team working out of Los Angeles on global business and plans to grow it into a full development studio that “helps us understand Western players and gives us a stronger global perspective,” said the studio’s international business director Vincent Gao.

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Every New Venture Needs A Product And A Business Plan

Startup Professionals Musings

Development schedule and checkpoints. A product plan must include the timeline and milestones involved in product research and development. Opportunity segmentation and competitive environment. List key competitors and alternatives, highlighting your sustainable competitive advantages, such as patents and trademarks.

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Divshot Sets Up Shop In Los Angeles

socalTECH

In the case of Divshot , a developer of user interface development tools for web apps, it was a chance to join Los Angeles accelerator Launchpad LA. Divshot develops software which provides a drag-and-drop interface to create web apps, which can then export HTML and CSS code for use by software developers.

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Demand Media Gets New Competitor, Yahoo, After Associated Content Buy

socalTECH

Los Angeles-based Demand Media , the user-generated content venture of Richard Rosenblatt, has new competition this afternoon, from Yahoo , after Yahoo announced it would acquire content publishing firm Associated Content. Both firms develop "evergreen" articles about popular topics, which they then sell advertising against.

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