Aspiring LA Web Developer's Dream To Go To Coding Camp, Pay It Forward
socalTECH
APRIL 22, 2014
What do you do if you''d like to become a web developer, but can''t afford to pay for the courses to learn those skills?
Small Business Tools that help with Website Development and Content Sharing
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DECEMBER 3, 2012
Our entrepreneurial imagination can endlessly create ideas, visions, plans… but putting those plans into action is difficult when the thoughts stay in our brain. The post Small Business Tools that help with Website Development and Content Sharing appeared first on TechZulu.
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Selecting a Software Development Company in 2024
TechEmpower
DECEMBER 11, 2023
It's a strategic choice that extends beyond a one-time development process and into anticipating future needs. By following these guidelines, you'll be better equipped to select a web development company that accurately reflects your project aspirations. tew_cta text="Do you have an idea for a software project?
SpotOn raises $300M at a $3.15B valuation and acquires Appetize
TechCrunch LA
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
SpotOn’s goal is to be a “one-stop shop” by incorporating tools that include things such as custom website development, scheduling software, marketing, appointment scheduling, review management, analytics and digital loyalty. Clearly, a16z General Partner David George too was bullish on the idea of a combined company.
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How This Startup Turned An April Fools Joke Into Customers
InfoChachkie
MAY 27, 2013
As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News. Divshot''s solution is an innovative web development tool, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process.
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How This Startup Turned An April Fools Joke Into Customers
InfoChachkie
MAY 27, 2013
As noted in Hacking Hacker News , the company previously dominated the mindshare of the web development community by facilitating the spread of a random posting on Hacker News. Divshot''s solution is an innovative web development tool, which automatically generates professional-grade code during the wire framing process.
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Finding a Technical Cofounder for Your Startup
SoCal CTO
MARCH 12, 2012
I promised I would write this post with some thoughts and ideas on the topic. "I'm looking for a partner / cofounder who can not only head the technical aspects and build a working model of the site, but someone with the connections to put a great development team together when we need it. Here's an example of that kind of email.
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The Guts, The Glory, and The (Virtual) Gold of Bragstr, with Jon Knarreborg
socalTECH
OCTOBER 18, 2012
Where'd the idea for Bragstr come from? So we sat down, came up with the idea on what's the most fair way to pick a game, and thought we'd use betting lines. Jon Knarreborg: I had run a few websites, including GirlGamer.com, and I did lots of partnerships on that site. We got together, and started to pursue this idea.
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Interview with Bruce Huang, UCLA Silicon Beach Innovation Lab
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
The idea came about, because we see a lot of people coming through our program at UCLA, who might have the desire to be an entrepreneur, and to get into the technology field, by studying data science or cybersecurity. At the same time, we're trying to help add women and diversity to technology and entrepreneurship.
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Product Management for Startups in Los Angeles – Steve Gilison
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 15, 2009
Steve Gilison worked as a market researcher and product manager at a startup where my company, TechEmpower , did the software / web development. How do I find entrepreneurs who have a great idea that can get or has got funding who need a CTO and/or development team? I like the idea. Or maybe not.
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Startup Weekend LA | An Insiders Story of a Startup on Steroids
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 28, 2012
People had one minute to “pitch” their idea to the group as a whole. I was #33 to go up and pitch my idea. Although, many people believed in my idea, I found it difficult to create a full team that can execute an MVP (Minimum Viable Product) by Sunday. I initially planned to join his team, in case my idea wasn’t voted in top 10.
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99 Interview with Adi Jaffe, All About Addiction
socalTECH
OCTOBER 5, 2011
The idea is really to make the process as simple as possible. The idea was to make it simpler for people to find rehab. Anyway, so I had this idea, and happened to meet Fred Jouyal, CEO of 1-800 DENTIST. When I came to the table, I just had the idea for a solution.
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204 Interesting Model for University President
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 25, 2007
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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150 Pragmatism with Flavor
TechEmpower
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
But a newly minted developer given access to Hacker News can develop ADD in a week's time, waste countless hours reading the opinions of professional and amateur technology opinion-makers, and nervously fidget about selecting the hippest framework and libraries to (briefly) avoid the scorn of hacker pop culture.
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Does Best Buy Need a Restart?
Eric Greenspan
APRIL 9, 2013
Imagine entering the store and joining a discussion or class on Photoshop, web development or replacing a hard disk. Also, build a true online university around this idea and be prepared to spin it off soon. Provide off the charts service when people use the warranty or service plan, whether paid for or not.
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Kevin Federline Search Engine
SoCal CTO
MARCH 20, 2007
Take a look at other sites: [link] But the overall idea is to provide branded search in order to get merchandise from your artist, star, etc. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo.
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150 Bring Startups and Designers Together with Elegant.ly
Tech Zulu Event
AUGUST 24, 2010
So you have an amazing idea and the back end of your site works flawlessly, but no one wants to use it because it looks like a 5 year old did your site design. For a lot of sites the design can make or break a the success of the website. We all know that most programmers are not the best designers. Elegant.ly
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How Milwaukee’s Tech Ecosystem Found Their Sweet Spot
Tech.Co
NOVEMBER 14, 2017
After graduating with a degree in advertising and design, I started a web development consultancy, where I oversaw user experience, brand design, and business strategy for internet-based startups across the country. What’s your role in the greater Milwaukee area startup ecosystem?
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Finding Good Developers in Los Angeles?
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 17, 2007
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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Feel Lost On LinkedIn? ExploreB2B Wants To help You Network With People Of Your Profession
Tech Zulu Event
DECEMBER 18, 2012
Right from the beginning, we also partnered with a young web development agency for development and technical consulting – they are now more than business partners, they are friends and part of the team. We have a strong partnership with our web development agency that has been part of the project from the beginning of 2010.
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Challenge of Predicting Winners
SoCal CTO
FEBRUARY 25, 2007
But even if you came to me with that idea, Im not sure I would have bought it. ► January (5) Los Angeles Web Developer Startup CTO or Developer When to Use Facebook Connect – Twitter Oauth – Goo. Why did YouTube win? Why did MySpace win? Certainly MySpaces tie-in with music was a genius move.
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150 How to Find and Hire a Developer
Tech Zulu Event
NOVEMBER 26, 2012
Even if you can’t read the code, if it looks organized, and you see a mix of English words (comments) around code that looks like it has structure, then you can get an idea of how they organize things. Try to identify developers that are flexible in their design. biznessapps.com – easy mobile app creation for businesses.
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TechZulu Tech Crawl | Culver City Edition!
Tech Zulu Event
APRIL 9, 2015
From its inception in 1998, cloud pioneer (mt) Media Temple has been on a mission to provide high quality, easy-to-use web hosting and cloud services to help web developers, designers, digital entrepreneurs and innovators bring their ideas to life online.
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Marketing, Startups and Networking in Los Angeles – Cliff Allen
SoCal CTO
OCTOBER 14, 2009
Of course, when I started thinking about Visible Networking , I immediately went to Cliff to check in to see how he's doing and to get his feedback, thoughts and ideas on the concept. Besides Tony Karrer for software/web development in Los Angeles ;) who are some of your go to people in Los Angeles?
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Does Best Buy Need a Restart?
Eric Greenspan
APRIL 9, 2013
Imagine entering the store and joining a discussion or class on Photoshop, web development or replacing a hard disk. Also, build a true online university around this idea and be prepared to spin it off soon. Provide off the charts service when people use the warranty or service plan, whether paid for or not.
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The Disappearing Face Of Mainstream Retailing Setting
Tech Zulu Event
JULY 7, 2015
If you dread the 8-5 working hours, your friends will always pop up the idea of giving you career tips at home which you can easily start. For an online retailer to create a retail website, starting your retail web development is just easy as clicking the mouse.
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Web Second, Mobile First
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 28, 2012
I loved the idea of “mobile first” but something always bothered me. But that product is the perfect example of perfectly suited for the web given the real estate available. I would love to see FourSquare double down on web development and market it harder to its user base. How awesome would that be?
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334 A Day in the Life of a Product Manager
Tech Zulu Event
NOVEMBER 10, 2013
Making ideas reality : dependency. ” SOME ANECDOTES AS THE EVENING PROGRESSES: Jen expresses her playful chagrin towards users when she’s been told they had no idea there was a new update/feature/product. Empathy, breath, communication : focus. Innovate user experience: deploy. Move the needle: data.
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87 Africa’s Largest and Fastest Growing Social Network | Interview with LAGbook’s Chidi Nwaogu
Tech Zulu Event
SEPTEMBER 4, 2012
Then I (Chidi) brainstormed on a little yet brilliant idea to verify who’s right and not. But we cannot deny the fact that some people are shy or uncomfortable to walk up to others and introduce themselves or business ideas. This idea is prohibited by the policy of some social networks to add only the people you know.
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Interview with Eric Hovanec and Steve Reich, LeisureLink
socalTECH
MARCH 26, 2009
Lots of angels are passive, but we were in a position where as angels we knew the company didn't have the management, but had a wonderful idea and promise, that we had some leading SoCal VCs interested, and what we concluded collectively was that the company needed to add management capability. We're looking across a number of positions.
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113 Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Tear Down Your Firewalls
Frank Addante
OCTOBER 19, 2006
Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Ive noticed that a lot of people are afraid of getting their ideas out into the public. Sure, you need to take the proper precautions to protect your idea first (patents, copyrights, etc.), Startup 3.0:
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Interview with Robert Flynn, Aggregage
socalTECH
FEBRUARY 1, 2011
At that time, monetizing by advertising didn't exist, and web developers were having to hand roll those experiences. In 2005, YouTube exploded onto the scene, and I took the ideas we had been working on and started--along with J.D. We successfully built up that firm, and in late 2006 we sold it to Tandberg Television.
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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Inventing Stuff, Obviously Impossible?
Frank Addante
AUGUST 14, 2006
Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Convincing others to believe in your idea is hard. Ive found that a lot of people are interested in hearing about new ideas. New ideas that are obvious to you are not obvious to others It makes sense.
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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: FounderBlog’s 1 Year Anniversary! A BIG THANK YOU to 3,500 entrepreneurs in 50+ countries
Frank Addante
MAY 20, 2007
Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. I just started working on a new idea. (Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.
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40 Last Exit Wall Street: 7 Considerations When Raising Venture Capital
From the Venture Trenches
MARCH 27, 2013
Whether your investors set an established milestone or not you should have a clear idea of where your company currently stands in its growth phase and what it has to accomplish once the investment has been raised. What is the company’s use of proceeds?
The Startup Guide To SXSW Panel Picking
Tech Zulu Event
AUGUST 13, 2010
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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69 Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 6.0 - the Rubicon Project: Internet Advertising
Frank Addante
MAY 24, 2007
Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Ill get into details on the business idea itself in later posts. (Wireless & Voice Application Software) Exit: technology acquired Lesson: Timing is critical. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.
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40 How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague
SoCal Delicious
JANUARY 15, 2010
On my side, the time and money wasted with the idea to educate people is immense. The web is broken by design and we cannot fix it anymore. Twitter was such a great idea with so much promise. Jonas on 13 January, 2010 #link In years this is the first post by you that leaves me with the feeling that I don’t care anymore.
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41 Framework Benchmarks Round 16
TechEmpower
JUNE 6, 2018
But we have an idea for dealing with Gozer. We also want the ever-increasing diversity of options for web development to be represented. We last were acquainted with this adversary in Round 8 , in the form of a Giant Sloar, otherwise known as one-gigabit Ethernet. Thanks again to Server Central for the previous hardware!)
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377 Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 2.0: The Internet is Coming! How will we make money?
Frank Addante
MAY 8, 2006
Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Startup 3.0) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ LESSON(S) LEARNED: What you don’t know can’t stop you: Our team was very inexperienced and we had no idea what our limits were.
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40 Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Venture Capital - What's the rush?
Frank Addante
AUGUST 29, 2006
Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Tell Your Friends Subscribe Filed under: venture capital , Zondigo Newer Post Older Post Home No Comment Post a Comment Newer Post Older Post Home Chocolate Candy Web 2.0 Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.
Frank Addantes FounderBlog: 5. Outsourcing
Frank Addante
MAY 12, 2007
Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. Security (Today = 5; 5 Years Ago = 2): Security (of your ideas/code) used to be a big concern when outsourcing. They realize that stealing code and ideas could severely hurt their growth. Startup 3.0:
Frank Addantes FounderBlog: "Keep it Simple" - My Golden Rule
Frank Addante
JUNE 13, 2006
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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How to cleverly integrate your own URI shortener
SoCal Delicious
JANUARY 15, 2010
Actually, handling short URIs in your error handler is a pretty good idea when you suffer from a mainstream CMS. Here are a few ideas how to block rogue (crappy, not behaving, …) Web robots. For example when you operate a WordPress blog, you could code nearly everthing below in your 404 page (consider alternatives ).
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