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Global Fitness Media Names CTO

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Los Angeles-based Global Fitness Media , which is developing a number of fitness-related online web sites, has hired on a new Chief Technical Officer, according to the firm's search agency, NeoHire. Auld was most recently Senior Operations Architect at Yahoo, and has also served at IBM Corporation and Alchemy Communications.

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7 Incentives For Testing Your Startup Marketing Early

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You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding. Most people agree that even negative media attention is better than none. Optimize your web history and presence. Here are seven key reasons that being open is better for your startup than trying to fly under the radar: Visibility generates interest.

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7 Reasons To Avoid Stealth Mode For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

You can’t get any word-of-mouth or media activity by hiding. Most people agree that even negative media attention is better than none. Optimize your web history and presence. Here are seven key reasons that being open is better for your startup than trying to fly under the radar: Visibility generates interest.

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Venture investors and startup execs say they don’t need Elizabeth Warren to defend them from big tech

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Warren’s plan called for regulators to be appointed to oversee the unwinding of several acquisitions that were critical to the development of the core technology that make Alphabet’s Google and the social media giant Facebook so profitable… and Zappos. This is not a new model, and it makes no sense,” says Narasin.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

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We also talked about how brands are increasing driving much of their traffic to Facebook and away from their own web pages. Online service offering privacy certification for web sites. Coremetrics (acquired by IBM). Offers cloud-based web analytics software provider. This is astounding and myopic in my view. 406 Ventures.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

We had to buy Oracle database licenses, UNIX servers, a Sun Solaris operating system, web servers, load balancers, EMC storage, disk mirrors for redundancy and had to commit to a year-long hosting agreement at places such as Exodus. Linux (instead of UNIX), Apache (web server software), MySQL (instead of Oracle) and PHP. Not Google.

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Innovation and Geography

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skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Tuesday, February 20, 2007 Innovation and Geography I ran across a post in Read/Write Web - Does Location Matter in Web Innovation? Tony Karrer is CEO/CTO of TechEmpower , a Los Angeles Web Development firm, and is considered one of the top technologists in e-Learning.

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