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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

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If you're an application developer, sending emails through your application can be a chore. It turns out it's not just a quick line of code to send an email -- it's also a hassle to make sure that those emails get delivered, that your email isn't classified as spam, and handling all sorts of delivery issues.

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How This Startup Turned An April Fools Joke Into Customers

InfoChachkie

Last week, Divshot turned a simple April Fool''s Day joke into a marketing coup, generating nearly 6,000 Tweets and over a thousand Beta customers. As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News.

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Where LinkedIn Works for Me

SoCal CTO

Sometimes, Ill use LinkedIn to contact my network, but mostly I still just go to their profile and email them. When I was looking for speakers for an event last fall on Web 2.0 , LinkedIn was a great way to reach out. Technology Advisor Technology Roles in Startups Pricing Customer Acquisition Sunk Costs and More -.

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

Divshot's Founders conceived of their innovative web development solution, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process, during a Startup Weekend event in Kansas City. The company posted a Show HN entry entitled, " We built a better solution for customer analysis and support.".

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

<Note: I edited a few comments from Jeff's email, none of which related to our meeting in 2008.> Rather, we value entrepreneurs' time and thus our diligence generally includes introducing them to potential customers and partners. The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development.

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Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies

SoCal Delicious

Are you trying to track and figure out what makes your customers tick? How do you use Big Data to profile your customers, and maximize revenue for your business? customers based on that data. SendGrid has seen massive growth and adoption, as thousands of web developers have discovered that the company--which has major.

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TechZulu Tech Crawl | Culver City Edition!

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Be a host company (must provide food / drink to attendees), then email events@techzulu.com with TZTECHCRAWL as the subject. . . ZehnerGroup designs and builds custom websites that scale. Custom ad deals and partnerships. Be featured on the Crawl! Jukin Media is a digital media licensing company. Sponsors. No refunds.