Remove Design Remove Software Engineering Remove Venture Capital
article thumbnail

Path.To Opens Job Matching Service In Los Angeles

socalTECH

Path.To , which operates a service to match up companies with software engineers, interactive designers, and other IT professionals by matching personalities, skills, and social graph, said Tuesday that it has expanded support into the Los Angeles area.

article thumbnail

What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Elect 1-2 representatives and even invite a local VC to invest personally and sit on the investment committee or be an advisor.

Startup 379
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

Both Sides of the Table

There is nothing wrong with non-founders – by design they are the overwhelming majority of companies. People design their products in a box assuming that they’ll show customers later and get feedback. It you have a great software engineer that’s awesome. The world is much safer for non-founders.

Startup 366
article thumbnail

The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Irony, hey?).

article thumbnail

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

Both Sides of the Table

billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. Over the past 4 years LA’s tech fundings have growing at a 30% compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) which is > 4 times the US average VC CAGR (7%). In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5 ”).

article thumbnail

CallFire Bootstraps 50,000 Signups and Hires Former NetZero CEO

Tech Zulu Event

Company founders, led by Ravishanker, made the strategic choice early on to bypass venture capital. “Choosing to bootstrap over raising venture capital has forced us to build a profitable business,” he said. An integral part of CallFire’s success lies in its entrepreneurial roots.

article thumbnail

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

Tech Zulu Event

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. . Before launching his own publishing venture, Om was a senior writer for Business 2.0 Bambi Francisco.