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Meet Launchpad LA’s Graduating Startups

Tech Zulu Event

Divshot, a tool for web designers and developers, won a national pitch competition and one of it’s founders Michael Bleigh created a popular open source library now included in Ruby on Rails. Less Neglect helps companies reduce churn, upsell users, and increase customer acquisition rates.

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Interview with Alex Benzer, SocialEngine

socalTECH

Southern California has had its share of new startup accelerators launch in the last few months, however, few people here have actually experienced an accelerator firsthand. We have about 8500 customers there, but only a small percentage have built great communities that took off, and the rest floundered.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

So it doesn’t have to be a small firm. But as with consulting, PR, web design and even VC – it’s not just the firm it’s also the individual. The agreement they sent said, “we may offer your services to our customers.&# This went unnoticed by the CEO and the lawyer. And Brad Feld.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

0160; If I need $250,000 to get to 100 customers, or $1 million to get to X, and I can raise both amounts from either Angels or VCs, where do we turn? Customer Care Today. The Phantom Sales Forecast – Failing at Customer Validation - Steve Blank , July 22, 2010 Startup CEO’s can’t delegate sales and expect it to happen.

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How to Block Unwanted Bots from Your Website with.htaccess

SoCal Delicious

When you block by IP address, you may end up blocking an entire internet provider, and thus a lot of realusers and potential customers. Likewise, many bad bots intentionally use User Agent names that correspond to normal web browsers. As such you wont be able to tell from the user agentalone whether its a bot or a real user.

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