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CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

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” Earlier this year CallFire, in a move designed to raise its profile in the telecom sector and further establish it as a leader in cloud telephony, CallFire announced that NetZero co-founder and former CEO Ron Burr has joined the company’s executive team as Chief Revenue Officer.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

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LA is the largest metropolitan area in the US for people employed in art, design and media and the local creative economy of LA generates more than $140 billion in economic output – more than the GDP of many countries. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area.

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

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Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. . magazine covering telecom and broadband stories. Essayist, programmer, and programming language designer.