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Realtime Raises $100M, Opens Office In Santa Monica

socalTECH

The new funding came from BRTech Holding, a Sao Paulo-based technology investment firm. The firm said its technology framework works with NODE.JS, Javascript, ASP.net, Java, PHP, iOS, Android, and Windows Phone, and revolves around providing a many-to-many, cloud-hosted messaging system for web applications.

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Entrepreneurs Don’t “Noodle” They Do

Both Sides of the Table

I’m not anti VC. But there are a lot of things that become norms in the VC industry that always drove me crazy from entrepreneur’s side of the table. One of them is when VCs say, “I’d like to ‘noodle’ on that for a while.&#. I’d love it if VCs gave more honest and direct feedback.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. PIM based on Java that would be up-to-date on all your devices. Server and client in Java. Java as a platform wasn't ready to deliver on client side. In second venture - compared Salesforce.com vs. S3 - as platform.

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

Tech Zulu Event

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming(Waite Group Press, 1996). He currently works for Founders Fund and coordinates FF Angel LLC, a seed-stage investment program; as well as fbFund REV, a micro-seed incubator program for Facebook-related startups. He is a frequent public speaker.