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A Chat with Chris Tragos of Jetpack

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Chris Tragos: Jetpack is an ad platform, which I would describe as the most beautiful, best engaging, and most performant ad product for desktop, mobile, and tablet. Our business is helping those guys make more money, through our better ad product. The HTML5 platform that we use is also available as a self service tool to customers.

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User Interface Beyond the Web Site

SoCal CTO

SEO for Startups and Negative Customer Acquisition Costs ) and, of course, the product itself. Normally the product is defined as a web site. Most founders are fairly passionate about the features and functions of the web site, iPhone application, Facebook application, or whatever web application represents the product.

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The End of the Web? Don’t Bet on It. Here’s Why

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He argues for a world he calls POSO (post social) in which we will only use social applications which drastically cut down our time involvement and/or increase our productivity. It’s central standard was HTML (hyper text markup language) that described how we would show data on computer screens. The WWW is the presentation layer.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Do you know the relative effort to build your prototype or minimum viable product? LinkedIn - This remains one of my primary tools. If you come up to a programmer and just ask them to help you build your product. Don't try to hunting programmers until you've pushed this as far as you can on paper and get early customers.

Guide 349
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Social Networking (the Shorter Version) Past, Present, Future

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By the mid-nineties we had the World Wide Web, which gave us a standard way to publish web pages using HTML. Companies like GeoCities & Tripod built tools that let you publish web pages that could be discoverable by others. Third-Party Tools Will Embed Social Features in Websites.

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Do you know the relative effort to build your prototype or minimum viable product? LinkedIn - This remains one of my primary tools. If you come up to a programmer and just ask them to help you build your product. Don't try to hunting programmers until you've pushed this as far as you can on paper and get early customers.

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Angel Funding Advice

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Product : You should build a product or a prototype. I know you’re not a tech guy and haven’t done anything other than an HTML course you once took, but if you’re inspirational and a leader you’ll find somebody to moonlight for free to get your prototype built. But for most businesses it is.

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