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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

socalTECH

Chris Tragos: The tree founders of Jetpack, myself, Kevin Woolery, and Marc Brown were all working on the publisher side at Spin Media (Editor's note: previously Buzznet) I was running sales, development, and operations, and looking at all these RFPs that came in. But, you still have lots of ideas. But, you still have lots of ideas.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

The conversation centered around a founder who's key question is "Where Do I Find a Developer for My Startup?" " In this case, he had a pretty compelling idea, had very little money, and didn't have the capacity himself to build it. Have you tested what you can without development? Ask a few CTO type people.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

Both Sides of the Table

The trends are legit, but we have no idea what unexpected breakthrough in human interaction is going to change everything.” As a software developer I wrote code on what was called a “dumb terminal” because it literally had no processing capability. A tough way to drive. Social networking is peaking.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

The conversation centered around a founder who's key question is "Where Do I Find a Developer for My Startup?" " In this case, he had a pretty compelling idea, had very little money, and didn't have the capacity himself to build it. Have you tested what you can without development? Ask a few CTO type people.

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How Addroid Is Hoping To Solve The Ad Industry's Flash Problem, with Matt Cooper

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What that means, is the banner is no longer Flash, but it slcearly HTML-based, and video based. Was it difficult from shifting from an agency to becoming a platform developer? HTML will get you modern browsers, but won't work on old browsers. We've figured out how to take the banner into 2016 and beyond.

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Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

InfoChachkie

There is nothing wrong with researching an idea yourself, getting it started yourself, validating the idea yourself and then asking people to join you.” We just knew that we were onto an idea that no one had thought of and we had better be in the press first because, of course, there is a first-mover advantage. Learn HTML.

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How Nix Hydra's Egg Baby Cracked The Code For Female Gamers

socalTECH

So, we started to learn some basic HTML and ActionScript, and put together a prototype, which helped us raise our first round of angel funding. There are a lot of people who see gaming the same way - who are approaching new games from the same perspective - iterating on the same ideas in mobile gaming right now. READ MORE>>.