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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. Interested in entrepreneurship, web development, or data science?

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BetterWorks Recruiting Effort: A LEGO Contest?

socalTECH

How do you find the best and brightest engineers and web developers? 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 software developers compete to build the best, LEGO. READ MORE>>.

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General Assembly Career Lab

SoCal Tech Calendar

Professionals at all experience levels can explore new paths to success in the competitive fields of web development, data, user experience design, and digital marketing. Start or advance your career in todayÂ’s top tech fields at General Assembly LA's Career Lab.

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Feel Lost On LinkedIn? ExploreB2B Wants To help You Network With People Of Your Profession

Tech Zulu Event

Right from the beginning, we also partnered with a young web development agency for development and technical consulting – they are now more than business partners, they are friends and part of the team. Competition? How unique are you from the competition? Who are its founders? What inspired them to find it?

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

Divshot's Founders conceived of their innovative web development solution, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process, during a Startup Weekend event in Kansas City. Note: Rincon Venture Partners is an investor in Launchpad LA, but otherwise has no affiliation with Divshot.).

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development. Although larger VC firms routinely invest in competitive offerings, it is less prudent for a small firm to do so, as it can be difficult to avoid inadvertent information transfers within an intimate partnership.

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Web Second, Mobile First

Both Sides of the Table

But that product is the perfect example of perfectly suited for the web given the real estate available. I would love to see FourSquare double down on web development and market it harder to its user base. MVP on mobile then hit web. Use that as a source of competition. How awesome would that be?

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