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CapLinked Adds Investors To Series A

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Los Angeles-based business transactions and dealroom service CapLinked has rounded up some new investors today, saying that it has added additional investors in its Series A funding. The firm earlier had announced investments from.

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How Rolebot Wants To Eliminate The Resume, With Shane Bernstein

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However, in the technical arena--as a programmer, developer, or software engineer--it's hard to tell from a resume how good you really are. The team is myself and my co-founder, Alex Mostafi, our CTO, and we also have a sales director and director of engineering up north in San Francisco. Are people using the product now?

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

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My suggestion is to get some of the angel groups – notorious for slow decision-making and hat passing – and pool their money into a small fund structure of say $5-10 million. Seattle has GeekWire , LA has SoCalTech and so on. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers.

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Interview with Brian McKelvey, Worlize

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Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based startup Worlize (www.worlize.com) announced it had received a seed round of funding, and launched a firm to focus on social gaming and chat. Brian McKelvey: For the last ten years, I've worked in software engineering, ranging from building social viral games for Paramount, Lionsgate, and GSN.

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Interview with Cliff Rees, XCast Labs

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round of funding from the Pasadena Angels and Frontera Capital for a voice-over-IP service, and we thought we'd talk with Cliff Rees, the firm's CEO, to understand how the firm is different from those many providers. Asterisk was not build with scalability in mind, and it was built by software engineers who don't know telecom.

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