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ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion-dollar startup

TechCrunch LA

Both programmers, the two reconnected after doing stints as custom developers during and after college, and then when they were developing tools for their families’ businesses as residential contractors in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale. These kinds of technologies, unlike AI, don’t automate away workers.

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Why Hopscotch Is Behind Your Favorite Mobile Sports App, with Laurence Sotsky

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Hopscotch, led by Laurence Sotsky , has built software which enables sports teams, venues, and others to rapidly create mobile apps for their fans. Laurence Sotsky: I've been working in the software-as-a-service space for some time, in medium-sized, venture capital backed companies. That provides much better reporting to sponsors.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

I know that this all seems obvious now with the movements started by Steven Blank ( Four Steps of Epiphany ) with the whole Customer Development processes / Lean Startup movements also popularized by people like Eric Ries. I know that their are independent software companies now focused on this like UserVoice and Get Satisfaction.

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Top 5 Apps For those Facing disabilities

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It also allows you to report any situations where you see someone parked in a handicapped parking space illegally. Updated constantly through user information, this application is always developing to better acclimate itself to user needs.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

He blogs to 10,000 web entrepreneurs at Software by Rob and co-hosts the podcast Startups for the Rest of Us. Paul Graham on trends for the future - Business of Software Blog , August 25, 2010 Paul Graham spoke at last year's Business of Software conference. August 20, 2010 They say people won't pay for content.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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Five Reasons You Haven’t Launched - Software By Rob , November 10, 2010 Photo by stevendepolo. It’s Easy to Be Great…It’s Hard to Be Consistent - Software By Rob , November 4, 2010 No link from TechCrunch, write-up on Mashable, mention by Leo Laporte, or Tweet by Ashton Kucher is going to make your business. This post is an accusation.