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I''ve written before about finding WebDevelopment Firms in Los Angeles. What I didn''t discuss was how you should go about selecting the right company. They''ve been in talks with some consulting companies, but don''t quite the know the criteria for evaluating them and things like references(and where to get them).
million softwaredevelopers worldwide. Given this diversity, it's important to be selective in the development services company with whom you choose to partner. In the 25 years that TechEmpower has been in business, we’ve seen thousands of companies come and go. Has the company handled projects similar to yours?
Just the kind of person I like to meet. :) But I was a bit surprised when he emphasized how hard it had been for them to find a webdeveloper in Los Angeles. My flippant comment was, “If you do a Google search for Los Angeles webdeveloper, you’ll find a LOT of people and firms.” And he’s right there’s a big difference.
In one of the newest "hackathons" to hit Southern California, a group of companies are looking to draw Orange County softwaredevelopers to a new hackathon, geared around WebRTC, the open "Web Real Time Communications" framework aimed at helping developers create voice and video chat applications. READ MORE>>.
As part of doing that, I've had the opportunity to interact with a wide variety of different chief technical officers from different kinds of companies over those years. This is a private group of CTOs who are responsible for softwaredevelopment within their companies. or focused on industry or type of company.
San Diego-based StockTwits , the online, finance-focused messaging service, said today that it has partnered with Q4 Web Systems , a developer of corporate websites and social media products for public companies. Q4's software powers Investors Relations sites for a wide variety of public companies.
How do you find the best and brightest engineers and webdevelopers? Santa Monica-based BetterWorks , the developer of software and services to help companies manage their fringe benefits for employees, has an interesting one: have those softwaredevelopers compete to build the best, LEGO.
in a seed financing round, for its drag-and-drop software for building web applications. The firm, headed by Michael Bleigh, currently offers up it web-based application builder under a free, open beta; the company said it plans to launch as a paid service later this year. READ MORE>>.
I’ve come to realize that I have lots of posts around startup softwaredevelopment scattered around in different posts. How to Work With a Contract WebDeveloper How To Bootstrap Your Startup Thought it would be good to capture them in one spot and also include links to related posts from other sources.
There's an old adage in softwaredevelopment that I refer to all the time: The first 90% of development takes 90% of the time. I used this when I taught software engineering. And I use it all the time now when I get the kind of message that I received: I'm looking for a webdeveloper to continue work on my website.
skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, March 13, 2007 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing Great post - 8 Ways The Internet Changed Software Marketing - is an interesting take on how different it is these days to market software. Good stuff. Posted byTony Karrer at 6:58 AM 1 comments: Jon Miller said.
San Diego-based softwaredeveloper Tealium , which developssoftware used to manage Internet "tags" for webdevelopers, said today that it has named Jeff Lunsford as its new CEO. Lunsford, who was already on the company's board, was previously President, CEO, and Chairman of Limelight Networks.
San Diego-based SweetLabs , the startup formerly known as OpenCandy, said today that it has launched a $50,000 contest which will reward webdevelopers for creating desktop applications for its Pokki desktop app environment. SweetLabs launched Pokki in June, aiming at creating smartphone app-like environment on PC desktops.
marketing, and not enough of the traditional, software-and-algorithm intensive startups you'd expect to see in Silicon Valley. We've identified ten of the more technically interesting companies working on software in Southern California, using our unscientific, unproven, and undoubtedly biased informal polling. Rightscale.
According to numerous local CEOs, startup executives, and recruiters, the number of open positions for technical--and other-- talent at local companies has surged in recent months, and there's a wild scramble to find the right employees.
Despite the economy, Southern California's high tech job outlook is better than it has ever been, with hundreds of open positions and many companies eagerly seeking high tech talent. Senior WebDeveloper , Malibu Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. Software Engineer , West LA, Shopzilla. per month monthly membership.
.&# I started saying this back in 2001/02, long before the era of Web 2.0, My philosophy emanated from my days of programming and later designing corporate software in the early 1990′s. Fast forward a decade and now I had a startup filled with smart webdevelopers. lean startups or even the advent of AJAX.
Lynda.com , the online video education provider which has been one of the region's most successful, bootstrapped companies--is no longer bootstrapped, after inking a massive, $103M growth equity round. The business saw a dramatic growth when--due to the downturn of the dot com crash--the company started to post its video online.
Founded over a year ago, Stacksocial’s CEO Josh Payne , found the task of sifting through page after page in the hunt for software daunting and decided something had to be done. Not much unlike STEAM, the bundles assist people with discovering new software they’d likely not have found otherwise.
Los Angeles-based content delivery network (CDN) provider NetDNA is making it easier for web application developers to use its CDN services, saying Monday that it has launched a new service to embed web acceleration capabilities into their web services and applications.
skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 1, 2007 Entreprenuer Network Great post by Ben Kuo - The Importance of the “Network&# to Entrepreneurs - the informal connections between people in the technology industry here who have a vested interest in helping entrepreneurs take their companies to the next level.
In what might end up being the most-sought-after summer camp experience ever for girls interested in technology and science, The Walt Disney Company said on Thursday that it is launching an on-campus, computer science immersion program aimed at high school girls.
22 the sale of its portfolio company Vision Technology Solutions, a websitedeveloper for government organizations in the U.S. and Canada, to cloud-based softwaredeveloper Granicus for an undisclosed amount. Caltius Equity Partners announced on Feb.
This month’s Startups Uncensored will be on “How to Build a Great Internet Company”. I’ll be interviewing different team members of Docstoc to talk about the specific tips and advice on topics such as Product Management & Design, WebDevelopment, BizDev, Content Creation, and much more. Milken Institute.
This company was started by Victoria Duff (who many of us know from back in the late 90s), Phillis Lane (who I have known for quite a few years) and Jon Bukosky. They are quite happy with a business that will turn into a profitable $20M company and dont necessarily need an obvious exit strategy.
Posted byTony Karrer at 9:30 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles WebDevelopment firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.
His work in social media, e-Learning and Performance Support has won awards and has led him into engagements at many Fortune 500 companies including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Citibank, Lexus, Microsoft, Nissan, Universal, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems, Fidelity Investments, Symbol Technologies and SHL Systemhouse. .
You create something that has value and gets traction and yet youve created it in a way that the software is considered "free." However, there are lots of companies that are making money from open source and freemium models. One of his companies - Gluecode - was sold to IBM for a pretty good price.
Los Angeles-based Divshot , which had offered up hosting of static web pages for webdevelopers, has been acquired by Google , and will join Gogole's Firebase softwaredevelopment team. The company was one of the companies in the Launchpad LA accelerator program in 2012. READ MORE>>.
Posted byTony Karrer at 5:02 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles WebDevelopment firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.
Our Insights and Opinions article today is from Tony Karrer , CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles WebDevelopment firm, who gives some hints, tips, and observations about the increasing difficulty of finding technical talent in Los Angeles. I was wondering, what methods have you found to be successful in finding developers?
Southern California technology companies are hiring aggressively, and the high tech job outlook is better than it has ever been, with hundreds of open positions and many companies eagerly seeking high tech talent. socalTECH's Job Board helps companies, and potential empoyees, connect.
The company--which is in the business of operating a content delivery network (CDN) to accelerate the delivery of web graphics, multimedia, applications, and more to end users-- recently disclosed it more than doubled its revenues in 2012, and has grown to over 230 employees--all due to a huge amount of demand for CDN services by its customers.
I had to laugh when an analyst with Forrester said in the article - As impressive as these results may be, myShape’s approach will probably fail to gain a mass audience unless the company can somehow simplify the measuring process, said Sucharita Mulpuru, an analyst with Forrester Research.
Posted byTony Karrer at 6:56 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles WebDevelopment firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.
Posted byTony Karrer at 8:30 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles WebDevelopment firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.
Posted byTony Karrer at 7:01 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles WebDevelopment firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.
In it he separates web consumers into: Time Rich (more time than money) and Time Poor (more money than time). He tells us: If you’re starting a new internet company, its important to know who your audience is, and to make sure that you don’t let your own experience and that of other Time Poor people guide you wrong.
Posted byTony Karrer at 7:47 AM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles WebDevelopment firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.
Ive personally been involved in the start-up world in Los Angeles for about 15 years, and have had the opportunity to work on many early-stage companies (e.g., ► January (5) Los Angeles WebDeveloper Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. eHarmongy) as an acting CTO.
Although the exact sequence of events is a bit unclear, it appears that Hacker News user "lukethomas"(who is unaffiliated with Divshot) was prompted to create the Hacker News post after reading a tweet about the initiation of the company's private beta. Be Yourself - Represent yourself, not the company in your comments.
I've talked about that in lots of other posts, so you can visit some of these to help determine what you specifically need: Startup CTO or Developer Startup SoftwareDevelopment – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything Key ingredients in the equation are: How complex is the system? Get to know the developers.
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