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Challenge of Predicting Winners

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Sunday, February 25, 2007 Challenge of Predicting Winners I just read a bit on the payout to YouTube from the Google Acquisition ( Internet News , CNN ). But even if you came to me with that idea, Im not sure I would have bought it. Why did YouTube win? Why did MySpace win?

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Interesting Model for University President

SoCal CTO

Its interesting to think about how universities might want to have their staff better aligned with moving ideas from the lab to start-ups. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo.

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Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles?

SoCal CTO

I personally believe that there are lots and lots of good developers working inside of organizations who would love to work on the interesting projects that we work on all the time, yet they arent out actively looking, so its almost impossible to find them. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: "Keep it Simple" - My Golden Rule

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. I have found that if an idea is incredibly complex, it inherently requires more time to develop and is harder to explain to customers, users, partners, employees, etc. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.

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The social Web in 2010: The emerging standards and technologies to watch

SoCal Delicious

The time is right to use the model of the Web to make it easier to put a conversation or collaborative activity into central focus , no matter where the underlying inputs come from. This is something that Google is attempting to do with its Wave format and remains an approach to watch. The standard to watch is activity strea.ms

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The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking

Tech Zulu Event

Have you ever had an idea for a great product, but thought any of the following: "I don't have en. Step by Step From Idea to Bootstrap Startup. The step by step story of an entrepreneur’s journey from idea to bootstrap web startup from her vi. Starting a dev team to build a brand new idea is harder. The constrai.

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

Most of these bots don’t obey robots.txt , that means you can’t even block them applying Web standards ( learn how to block rogue bots ). Their developers are just too fucking lazy to understand such protocols that every respected service on the Web (search engines…) obeys. Sad but true. Keep up the good work.