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Divshot Sets Up Shop In Los Angeles

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Divshot develops software which provides a drag-and-drop interface to create web apps, which can then export HTML and CSS code for use by software developers. In the Silicon Prairie article, Johnson cited the quantity of accelerators, startups and venture capital as reasons for making the move. READ MORE>>.

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Realtime Raises $100M, Opens Office In Santa Monica

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The firm, which was previously known as Internet Business Technologies, said that it has developed a language, xRTML, that helps convert existing, static HTML into real-time, live web applications. Realtime , a startup developing technology to help power real-time web applications, said today that it has raised $100M, launched in the U.S.,

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Angel Funding Advice

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This is part of my ongoing series Pitching a VC. I’m a software guy so I’m sure there are cases where building isn’t feasible. They might be as hard as raising VC. I won’t say never but having a team validates that you can attract people to the cause. But for most businesses it is. That’s OK.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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https://medium.com/media/cc969482e7abf6b75d3c0958c8ee409d/href I moved to Los Angeles in 2007 and as a VC who had built his career as a programmer, database designer, program manager, CEO then VP Products at Salesforce, I wanted to build a portfolio of software investments. Video is the new HTML.”

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Interview with Rahul Sonnad, Geodelic

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Rahul Sonnad: It runs on iPhone, Google Android, and will be running on a netbook with a major OEM this April, and in the near future you'd expect it to run on HTML alone. Once I had that, it was clear to me that putting some software linking that with the Internet would be very powerful. This runs on a number of platforms?

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Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes

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Putting your thoughts into spreadsheets, PowerPoint, HTML, etc. It you have a great software engineer that’s awesome. They have developers or friends help code their software without having legal agreements in place. You will confirm that later on. DO NOT start with product, start with the market. Get customer input.

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

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.” The new mansion will reportedly be inhabited mostly by Tyler, who will use it as his home base while launching West Coast operations of the brothers’ new NYC-based venture capital firm , Winklevoss Capital. Hyperlinks and images must be manually coded using html mark-up. We respect your anonymity.

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