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General Assembly Raises $35M In Funding Round

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General Assembly , which conducts classes on web development, Photoshop, Javascript, digital marketing, and all kinds of other topics through its location in Los Angeles, has just scored a $35M funding round, a Series C for the company. IVP''s Todd Chaffee joins the company''s board. READ MORE>>.

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Southern California Technology Jobs Surge

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"It's been tough to shake people loose from companies," Stuart Macfarlane , CEO of El Segundo-based iChange , explains, saying that the firm is actively looking to hire two to three web developers. However, she confirms that potential employees are harder to find.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup

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The bad news is that Finding Developers is Tough Here in Los Angeles and even people willing to pay have a hard time finding Web Development in Los Angeles. They often can help a lot in navigating to expertise and to possible resources. Of course, you are looking for something a little different - a technical Cofounder.

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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage

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Back in the early days of LA venture capital, I was first an associate of a fund, and then partner of a fund, Entertainment Media Venture Partners. The CEO of that company turned into a partner of mine, and when my fund was up in 1994, we joined forces and founded a company called Liquid Audio. It's very much a low cost model.

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

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Bootstrapping boostrapping, Funding, lean startup. . Making Decisions as a Resource Starved Dev Team. Bootstrapping development, team management. . Your Web Developer Thinks You're an Idiot. Bootstrapping development, Startup, Website content. . Ed Schipul, Schipul - The Web Marketing Company.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

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This uncalled-for –IOW abusive– bot traffic burns your resources, and (with a cheap hosting plan) it can hinder your followers to read your awesome article and prevent them from clicking on your carefully selected ads. Actually, that’s an understatement, because these raids cost publishers an enormous sum across the Web.

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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener

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requestUri; $uriParts = parse_url($absoluteUri); $requestScript = $PHP_SELF; $httpResponseCode = NULL; Block rogue bots You don’t want to waste resources by serving your valuable content to useless bots. Here are a few ideas how to block rogue (crappy, not behaving, …) Web robots. $canonicalServerName.$requestUri;

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