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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

” In that post I talked about how a few key people in any community can have an enormous impact on the fledgling success of the city or company. And in many communities that are new to building tech startups I’ve found that a lot of angel money is not very sophisticated at investing in startup companies. Here are mine: 1.

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Programs in NYC and LA prepare autistic students to excel in tech careers

StartUp Beat

They make great employees, in other words, says Thornton – the co-founder of Coding Autism, a professional coaching and training company for adults on the autism spectrum. Coding Autism offers a 20-week intensive boot camp, providing training in software engineering, quality assurance and web development.

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Interview with Anne Walls and John Singleton, WordHustler

socalTECH

We caught up with both Anne and John to learn more about the company. In their case, people write their scripts on a web site, and when they're done, they can submit them to contests with a single click. Even the most organized writers have difficulty with the process. WordHustler launched in May of 2008 in a beta.

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Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

SoCal CTO

I am hearing from my project management team a bit of distrust in the technical capacity of our web development team. Still there are some common signals / symptoms that I hear about from Founders/CxOs in companies that are the reason they are calling me. This question came up last week. And an “A” player is worth 10+ C players.

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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

CallFire simplifies telephony, making sophisticated, expensive carrier-class telecom capabilities available through an easy-to-use GUI and API platform, which the company pioneered in 2007. Company founders, led by Ravishanker, made the strategic choice early on to bypass venture capital.

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TenHands HD Video Collaboration I Founders Interview

Tech Zulu Event

TenHands’ vision is to enable every person and organization to collaborate more effectively and get more done together anywhere without boundaries. where he led the incubated startup to $300m in revenues as the fastest growing Service Provider for Collaboration services to include video, web, and audio. When was it launched?

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

This leads to a set of questions: What is the role of a CTO in the early stages of a company, and does that role change later on as both the company and that individual matures? It specifically answers the first questions about role and how it changes as the company matures. How will I know when the need has arisen? Accounting?

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