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Software Development Companies in Southern California

SoCal CTO

They are generally the senior most person responsible for custom software development, database design, database administration, web development, etc. But where do the software development companies in Southern California congregate? Yes, there are some events around particular technologies. Actually, there are some CFO events.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

Some other points - LAMP,Net, Java - doesn't make much difference. Benefit of a proprietary platform can be finding customers. Java as a platform wasn't ready to deliver on client side. Stamps.com - two back-ends - mainline service vs. marketing site. I would tend to agree. AppExchange on Salesforce. Completely agree.

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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

Both Sides of the Table

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. But I’m no longer an entrepreneur – I’m a VC at a $200 million fund called GRP Ventures , the largest active fund in Southern California.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

Both Sides of the Table

At Sony, he didn’t feel like he could “steer the ship” and get his ideas heard so he left and started GUBA, GUBA had no seed funding. Thomas and his partner lived off of credit cards, and used crappy data centers and open source software (LAMP). Patience is also important for market and customers. Topics of the day.

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