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Generative AI – The End of Empty Textboxes

TechEmpower

Drop-off on the first page of an application is bad news. Profile Blurbs and Writing Prompts Let’s look at our job matching site in more detail. This gives Mark more control over the process, without requiring him to write much, and gives the LLM more to work with. This isn’t just our opinion - our startup metrics prove it!

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

SoCal CTO

I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. The bad news is that Finding Developers is Tough Here in Los Angeles and even people willing to pay have a hard time finding Web Development in Los Angeles. The bad news is that they can get a good paying job anytime.

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Investors, MVPs and Evidence of Traction

SoCal CTO

Yesterday, I was talking to a startup founder about their MVP and they said something that finally got me to write this post: "I have a few investors interested but they want to see a product." Not Really At first you may be thinking that this is all bad news. That's an even tougher hurdle. Yes, that's correct.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

InfoChachkie

Messenger : Thorsten von Eicken , RightScale’s Co-Founder and CTO, Chief Architect at Citrix Online (formerly Expertcity) and Professor of Computer Science at Cornell University and UC Santa Barbara. I taught a somewhat crazy course about writing and deploying a scalable website in Ruby on Rails and deploying it in EC2.

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63 Los Angeles Entrepreneurs To Be Proud Of

SoCal Delicious

There are hundreds of entrepreneurs here in Los Angeles who are building awesome companies, writing awesome books, making awesome movies and are trying to solve important problems to help make this world a better place. The apps can stream video, audio, news feeds, Twitter, Facebook, sell digital content, physical merchandise, and much more.

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Entrepreneurship: Nature vs. Nurture? A Religious Debate

Both Sides of the Table

I wasn’t going to write about it since he had just covered the topic and echoed my point of view. Notes Wadhwa, “Jason [Calacanis], Fred [Wilson], and Silicon Valley VC’s, I’ve got news for you: you’ve got it all wrong. Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

There’s you and your killer CTO co-founder. It’s an awesome source of regional news. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA. I prefer not to do any angel investments because I focus on my VC funds but it was gratifying to write some small checks to support local teams. It’s important.