SoCal CTO

JUNE 13, 2011

We had an interesting presentation at the LA CTO Forum by the CTO of a startup who chose Groovy / Grails as the framework for their startup. t prompted a good discussion around how CTOs go about choosing the programming language and framework for their startup. There are LOTs of language and frameworks to choose from.

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TechEmpower

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Round 13 of the ongoing Web Framework Benchmarks project is here! The project now features 230 framework implementations (of our JSON serialization test) and includes new entrants on platforms as diverse as Kotlin and Qt. Yes, that Qt. What a great time to be building web apps! Good fortunes. Many fixes to long-broken tests.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 9, 2022

Start by reviewing current statistics, like the recent Social Media Marketing Benchmark Report 2022 , to learn which social media sites are most popular, which features drive the most impact today, and how other social media marketers have maximized their efforts and seen the greatest ROI.

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Social Media Framework Media Metrics 135

TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

And retail sites are not alone; all sites will silently lose visitors who are made to wait. Framework Benchmarks. We created our Web Framework Benchmarks project because we’ve run into situations where well known frameworks seem to cause significant performance pain for the applications built upon them.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Fake Site - you can have what looks to be a real site, even take "orders" but not actually have anything able to run it. We end up using WordPress a lot as the marketing front-end of our web sites. WordPress is pretty easy to hack. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. Sites - There are a bunch of sites out there aimed at this or similar issues. In this case, these sites didn't pan out all that well for the entrepreneur.

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TechEmpower

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Some offer specialized skill sets like expertise in a particular programming language or framework, or specific domain knowledge. Assess the Company's Website: The company's own site provides a clue to its dedication to aesthetics and content. However, an overly attractive site could indicate a leaning towards design over development.

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Software Development Software Review Develop Development 297

SoCal CTO

JULY 19, 2016

I’ve had lots of conversations with fellow CTOs about the TechEmpower Web Framework Benchmarks. Some really appreciate the value that they bring to help them understand performance characteristics of different frameworks. I got a rash of customers who said to me, “Hey, we went to this TechEmpower Benchmark site.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

It was a mobile app, so he ideally would find someone who had experience with mobile development or someone who could pick up a mobile framework. Sites - There are a bunch of sites out there aimed at this or similar issues. In this case, these sites didn't pan out all that well for the entrepreneur.

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Guide Startup Mobile Framework 296

socalTECH

MARCH 21, 2013

We recently chatted with Debra Domeyer , CEO of Oversee.net (www.oversee.net), a Los Angeles company which provides both domain monetization and runs vertical, consumer lead generation and marketing sites, to hear about the company. We're putting more focus on the consumer, to create great destination sites in high potential, niche markets.

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Mobile CTO Hire CPC Web 224

InfoChachkie

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

If Jeff and his team had launched a more prudent, scaled-back site, it is arguable they would have never achieved the critical mass that eventually led to the company’s widespread market acceptance. Don’t Chase The Quick Buck. Sometimes we measure things and see that in the short term they actually hurt sales.

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Tips Startup Framework Customer 279

Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

We short-handed this marketing mix as “ the four P’s ” – product, price, promotion and place (distribution) – this was devised in 1960 and while a little bit dated is still a useful framework. Of course websites like Reddit and HackerNews try to weed out such behavior. ” Me? Underbelly.

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Marketing Startup SEM SEO 379

TechCrunch LA

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

One of them is Movio , a two-year-old startup leveraging generative AI along with other machine learning frameworks like GAN to make videos featuring talking human avatars. Users will first pick from a range of templates, be it a theme for a shopping site or a trip to Japan.

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Generative AI Marketing Artificial Inteligence Template 182

Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 23, 2021

A few years ago, I first saw an interesting step in that direction via the classic book “ Entrepreneurial DNA ,” by Joe Abraham , with his assessment web site. His framework seems to be picking up some traction, and is already in use informally by several entrepreneurship platforms, universities, and even high school programs.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I told people privately my perfect spec: computer science undergrad from MIT (or any other great school), 2-years at McKinsey but no more than that (I love the analytical framework that the top strategy consulting firms provide. He’s a star who has a very intuitive feel for technology and … no MBA.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

But a newly minted developer given access to Hacker News can develop ADD in a week's time, waste countless hours reading the opinions of professional and amateur technology opinion-makers, and nervously fidget about selecting the hippest framework and libraries to (briefly) avoid the scorn of hacker pop culture.

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Web Platform Technology JavaScript 200

Tech Zulu Event

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Advances with AJAX, CSS and a wealth of new APIs available to web developers mean the web sites of old need to be replaced with modern web apps. Single Page Web Apps – JavaScript MVC Frameworks and Prototypical ASP.NET MVCResponsive single page web applications are becoming the norm instead of the exception.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology.

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Tech.Co

JULY 25, 2017

With content management systems like WordPress , getting a site up and running is no big deal. A contact form is one of the first interactive elements that most novice bloggers learn to use on their site. Nowadays, you’ll never run out of choices when it comes to contact form plugins that can easily be integrated into your site.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 7, 2012

I see many startups who seem satisfied with a “me too” approach, building yet another social network or e-commerce site, rather than being truly innovative. This mantra is complemented by a framework known as the five M’s, which are five key principles for unleashing creativity in any environment: Mood.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 15, 2011

I see many startups who seem satisfied with a “me too” approach, building yet another social network or e-commerce site, rather than being truly innovative. This mantra is complemented by a framework known as the five M’s, which are five key principles for unleashing creativity in any environment: Mood.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2014

A while back, Gartner formalized their Big Data definition as a “3V” framework - high Volume, high Velocity, and high Variety information asset, requiring new forms of processing to enable enhanced decision making, insight discovery and process optimization. Let me hear from you on success stories. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2013

In 2012, Gartner formalized their Big Data definition as a “3V” framework - high Volume, high Velocity, and high Variety information asset, requiring new forms of processing to enable enhanced decision making, insight discovery and process optimization. Data capacity is measured in petabytes (1000 terabytes), or soon even yottobytes (10 24 ).

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 2, 2012

I recently had the pleasure of interviewing engineer and PageWoo ’s CEO and co-Founder Jason Crilly about his side project, the new hacker news site for the Southern California tech community called Develop.la. The framework in L.A. s first hacker news site, Develop.la. Jason is a passionate advocate for. On the Develop.la

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News Los Angeles Ideas Startup 95

Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 6, 2022

A while back, Gartner formalized their ‘big data’ definition as a “3V” framework - high Volume, high Velocity, and high Variety information asset, requiring new forms of processing to enable enhanced decision making, insight discovery and process optimization. Marty Zwilling.

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Social Media Research Framework Sales 96

Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 9, 2019

A while back, Gartner formalized their ‘big data’ definition as a “3V” framework - high Volume, high Velocity, and high Variety information asset, requiring new forms of processing to enable enhanced decision making, insight discovery and process optimization. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 4, 2016

Investors and partners now look only for a framework of your business essentials, within the context of your opportunity, solution, and financials. Years ago, it cost a million dollars for a new e-commerce site, one that you can now create for almost nothing with current tools and technology. The cost of social media done well is low.

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socalTECH

MAY 8, 2017

The industry has been talking about democratizing clinical research, so it's not just restricted to traditional clinic sites, and is not restricted by socioeconomic income and status. We also ship drugs to patients, so they don't have to go to a clinic to get those. That's enabling more participation from patients.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

At the end of the 90's, I had the opportunity to launch Bugleboy.com, an e-commerce enabled site, which we launched a week fore Gap.com. We sold that to ValueClick in2 003, and I stayed on at ValueClick for three years before going to Revver.com, a video sharing site.

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TechEmpower

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

We're all using enum types here and there, we're all using the collections framework. If adding a new type causes some call site to become megamorphic , we might have thrown their carefully-crafted assumptions regarding performance out the window. We've had enum types in the language for more than a decade.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 14, 2017

A while back, Gartner formalized their ‘big data’ definition as a “3V” framework - high Volume, high Velocity, and high Variety information asset, requiring new forms of processing to enable enhanced decision making, insight discovery and process optimization. Marty Zwilling.

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socalTECH

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

We were looking for a couple of things, one is someone who could take a step back and figure out how to get to self-sustainability, and a person with the background and framework on building a business model. We had grown Stage6 to be a cash generating machine, and it became a top 50 site, helping DivX to distribute content out there.

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Tech Zulu Event

MARCH 24, 2015

LessonPaths is a site geared more toward sharing and curating content, whereas today’s MentorMob focuses on lifestyle learning. One notable difference from the two sites is the awesome UI that was rejiggered for the new lifestyle-focused MentorMob.

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Guide CTO Coach Education Content 40

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

It's quite a different framework from an Airbnb or HomeAway. But if you look at sites like Airbnb, they're going very upmarket, and catering to the people who normally would look at booking a hotel, and if you look at HotelTonight, that' s very vacation oriented, and they're still looking at hotels.

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Tech Zulu Event

JUNE 10, 2011

Vanilla is forum software that powers discussions on over 400,000 sites around the world. We removed all of the features and bloat that plagues other forum software, and created an addon framework so the forum owner can use Vanilla as the basis on which they can build their vision of how their community should appear and function.

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SoCal Delicious

AUGUST 31, 2010

JanRain Engage provides a convenient way to enable social logins on a site via a single API. Implementing JanRain Engage on your site is a lot less work than implementing each login provider one by one. Of course, youll need to use a social login to get into the site. yoursite" will be replaced with the name of your site.

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