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How Runtriz Is Powering Mobile Apps For Hotels, with Alonso Vargas

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For our interview this morning, we caught up with Alonso Vargas , the CTO and co-founder of Runtriz (www.runtriz.com), a Los Angeles company which has been powering the mobile apps and experiences for Radisson, Best Western, a lot of boutique brands. What does Runtriz do? We took that platform, and converted it to a web experience.

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What Mattered in 2012: Aber Whitcomb, io/LA

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Aber Whitcomb is a partner at startup co-working and incubation community io/LA , CTO of SGN , and former co-founder and CTO of MySpace. What was the biggest news for you this year? At io/LA we launched a new 8000 sq/ft co-work and incubator space in Hollywood. Don't bet on any one platform. Or Tapes and CDs?

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Make It Work Gets Into Radio

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According to Make It Work, the show will be hosted by Jeremy Anticouni, co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the firm, along with radio talent Tim Conway, Jr. The firm said the show, Tech News, will feature expert advice and content about PCs, Macs, mobile devices, the Internet, and more.

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Interview with Patrick Kennedy, Sidebar

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For this morning's interview, we thought we'd talk with Los Angeles-based Sidebar (www.sidebar.com), a venture backed startup in the mobile space, to learn more about what they are up to. Patrick Kennedy: Sidebar is a company that was founded to bring consumers personalized content, focused on mobile delivery of that content.

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Challenge of Predicting Winners

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO. He has been the CTO for several start-ups, most notably eHarmony.

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First Ever Biz2Beach Presented by CallFire Hits The Ground Running!

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The invitation-only attendees included founders, business development leaders, and marketing directors from companies big and small, including NBCUniversal, Mobclix, DDB Los Angeles, Airpush, adly, Mobile Roadie, Disney Animation Studios, BetterWorks, and more. He is also a Social Producer at CBS News’s What’s Trending.

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Investors, MVPs and Evidence of Traction

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Not Really At first you may be thinking that this is all bad news. However, the good news is that for most investors, you can certainly change the question and get a lot more information without ever building the MVP. But now that you have a product, you should be able to show that people want to and/or are willing to pay to use it.

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