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Interview with Costin Tuculescu, Freebinar

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In recent years, one of the more common ways to share information, conduct training, or pitch your company to other has been through online, web-based webinar and conferencing. Costin Tuculescu: Freebinar.com is a completely free alternative for web conferencing and webinar users. It's not a freemium model.

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

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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?

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LA has the annual Monty Conference. Or how about the best example – Loic Le Meur gets everybody over to Paris every year for Le Web. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. I’ve seen it work in Boulder with DeFrag and Gluecon.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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When my friend and the father of LA’s tech startup community Bill Gross first demonstrated his company GoTo.com (renamed Overture) on stage at a TED conference he was actually booed (True story. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. ”).

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

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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. . In 1995 he developed with Robert Morris the first web-based application, Viaweb, which was acquired by Yahoo in 1998.