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Ecwid Scores $5M In Series B

socalTECH

Ecwid said that Gleb Davidyuk of iTech Capital joins the company''s board with the funding. Ecwid said it will use the funding for further developing its product, expanding global distribution, and for sales and marketing. The firm got its start as X-Cart, a PHP shopping cart.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

Venture capital is in the process of its own creative destruction with new market entrants and new models of innovation at the precise moment that our industry itself is contracting. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in team costs to code, launch, manage, market & sell our software.

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CallFire Launches Their New Cv3 Platform & New Look

Tech Zulu Event

Born on the shores of Santa Monica, California, the company is taking its beta-tested Cv3 platform out into the public today. Another API has been added to support IVR (interactive voice recognition) and PHP Toolkit enables developers to get CallFire’s system running much more efficiently.

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Interview with Michael Witz, Mob Science

socalTECH

Last week, the firm announced a funding round and a couple of key advisors, as the company looks to ramp its social gaming efforts and leverage a deal with Zynga. We spoke with CEO Michael Witz about the company. Having developed games for the social game market, what do you think makes a game successful or popular in this market?

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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

InfoChachkie

DreamHost has a successful track record of incubating technologies in-house and then releasing them to the broader market. In 2012 the company rolled out Inktank, an innovative open source storage solution based on Ceph’s distributed file system, which was subsequently sold to Red Hat for $175 million. Six Reasons Why The Time Is Now.

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Why.Net???

Alon Schwartz

I’m being asked this by technologies, of course, but also from other, non-tech people like private investors, VCs, SEO experts, marketing guys, potential hires, partners, and any random guests that just happen to stop by and say hi to Jason (of course…). This X can be PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, or even Java. is a charged question.

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Why.Net???

Alon Schwartz

I’m being asked this by technologies, of course, but also from other, non-tech people like private investors, VCs, SEO experts, marketing guys, potential hires, partners, and any random guests that just happen to stop by and say hi to Jason (of course…). This X can be PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, or even Java. is a charged question.

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