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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? What special data, content, APIs, etc. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Content Management - do we need to allow easy editing of content in the system? Content access controls? Tell me about the business.

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32 Questions Developers May Have Forgot to Ask a Startup Founder

SoCal CTO

How are you funding this? What level of funding do you currently have? What special data, content, APIs, etc. Do you want Flash video, HTML 5 video, or both? Content Management - do we need to allow easy editing of content in the system? Content access controls? Tell me about the business.

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How Nix Hydra's Egg Baby Cracked The Code For Female Gamers

socalTECH

However, Egg Baby--the title from newly funded Nix Hydra (www.nixhydra.com)--seems to have cracked the code for how to get new, young, female consumers to become game players. The company just raised a $5M funding round for its efforts, from Foundry Group and a number of angels. Lina Chen: The first round of funding was super tough.

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Interview with Rahul Sonnad, Geodelic

socalTECH

We caught Rahul in a more serious conversation, and spoke to him about his venture funded, location-based information startup and what it's up to, as well as got the story behind the firm's incubation at Clearstone Ventures. Actually, from that, I just got lots of analogies with publishing geographic specific content.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

socalTECH

We've applied mathematical logic to give each piece of content a score, which tells you how vibrant that piece of content is, based on likes, comments, and shares. From there, because you can drill down on a week, month, and year basis, you can look and say--at any time, what top 5 pieces of content are interesting?

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Cojoin | Data Integration

Tech Zulu Event

We will be releasing actual mobile apps down the road, but right now we have device-friendly HTML 5 web applications. I mean, that’s been one of the most amazing things is when you closed a round of funding. You can find what kind of content that you’re looking for really quickly. Tablet and mobile are a huge part of that.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

For example Twitter , where gazillions of bots [type A] follow other equally superfluous but nevertheless very busy bots [type B] that automatically generate 27% valuable content (links to penis enlargement tools) and 73% not exactly exciting girly chatter (breeding demand for cheap viagra). Tweet its URI (not shortened - message incl.