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Interview with Costin Tuculescu, Freebinar

socalTECH

However, those services can be expensive, particularly for individual users and small and medium sized businesses. First, for folks who haven't used your service, what is Freebinar? Costin Tuculescu: I cam out of UC Irvine as a software engineer, studying computer science. It's not a freemium model.

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Lean on Your Networks When Making Early Hires

Tech.Co

If you hired an outstanding front-end software engineer, chances are they are friends with other outstanding software developers. Keith, best-selling author of “Never Eat Alone” and “Who’s Got Your Back,” offered this advice: “Conferences are always a great place to start, if you do your research.

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

socalTECH

It seems that every week, a new, Voice-over-IP provider firm surfaces in the market, either providing PBX services, voicemail, or other similar services. What is your VoIP service all about, and how is this different from what seems to be lots of Voice over IP service providers?

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Irony, hey?).

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

Both Sides of the Table

LA has the annual Monty Conference. So much so that when a friend of my family was looking for an internship at a local Boston company I contacted my friend Jeff Bussgang at Flybridge who hooked him up with interviews and he stayed in Boston rather than working in financial services in NYC for the summer.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

Tech Zulu Event

Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. . While an undergraduate at Yale Unviersity, he co-founded Catalyst Recruiting. Bambi Francisco. Rick Heitzmann.