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Open Source Business Model

SoCal CTO

link] [link] Posted byTony Karrer at 5:33 PM 0comments: Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom) About Me Tony Karrer Dr. Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning.

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Interview with Scott Ferreira, MySocialCloud

socalTECH

If you were a student in college, working on a startup idea, what would spur you to drop your education plans, and go full time on your startup? Both have been great mentors ever since. LastPass is not the greatest user interface unless you are a tech person, and Delicious is also more of a tech person's way of curating the web.

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Learn How to Kiteboard Online. MentorMob Launches Free Social Online Learning Guides

Tech Zulu Event

The founders are lifelong friends and lifelong learners from Chicago who have had successful careers in tech before joining forces to create the ultimate free social online learning destination that takes the best teachers on the web and curates their content into MentorMob learning Guides. Including one on kiteboarding.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

The most attractive thing about it was the educational value. So, we were pretty excited to educate ourselves at TechStars. The program itself is incredibly daunting initially, but it was really valuable for us, especially as an educational experience. We have some great mentors now. Working for someone else is not fun.

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Interview with Bong Koh, LifeCrowd

socalTECH

Andy Wen was the CTO of Christianity.com, and the CTO of early online education firm VCampus, and he also ran the product and web security for eTrade, as well as started a company called Lighthound deals, like a Groupon. Tony Adam is an advisor, he was formerly at MySpace. Obviously, Prism is a great example.

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MuckerLab Unveils Second Graduating Class to Investors

Tech Zulu Event

The co-founder core team, including a CTO, should be fully formed and passionate enough to be working on the project full time. Subblime solves this problem by allowing channels to publish content audiences want and extend that to product recommendations from across the web. Every team has learned many lessons along the way.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

Matthew Clough is a social entrepreneur and creative professional who has dedicated himself to helping children get the educations they deserve in Tanzania, Africa. He is the founder of Benson Backpacks , a company that sells backpacks and supports children’s educations in Tanzania with each purchase. Ryan Born – Founder of AudioMicro.