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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

The topic is: Betting Your Company On An Internet Platform? A very interesting topic, especially for those of us involved in developing for start-ups. The basic conclusion was that it was a bit premature if you were talking about a serious, funded start-up. application services (security, integration), etc.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

I will argue that when the dust settles, although we will have fewer firms, each type well end up more focused on traditional stage segments that cater to the core competencies of that firm. When I built my first company starting in 1999 it cost $2.5 million in infrastructure just to get started and another $2.5 Enter Amazon.

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Interview with Mark Sylvester, Likeabilitee

socalTECH

Santa Barbara-based Likeabilitee (www.likeabilitee.com) has come up with a new, highly visual service which makes it very easy for you to analyze and understand how people are engaging with your social media posts on Facebook. Mark Sylvester: Likeabilitee is a project my partner, KymberleeWeil and I, came up with about a year ago.

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Guide to the LA Startup Community

SoCal Delicious

Why should a startup thinking about moving to a new place choose LA? Southern California companies are second to only Silicon Valley in raising venture capital , there are three major universities to recruit talent – UCLA, Caltech, and USC – and a thriving startup community to mingle with.

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Dude, Akanda Is Tying The Cloud Together Like A Rug

InfoChachkie

In homage to The Dude’s sentiment, tech startup Akanda Virtual Networking named its open source project The Rug because it “ties together” OpenStack networks by managing orchestration, routing and other key network services. Cloud Architecture – Most cloud projects are now built on OpenStack an open source virtualization platform.

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Why.Net???

Alon Schwartz

From the first day we started Docstoc people have been asking me “ why.Net ”? The concept of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP) VS. Microsoft must change. All startups in the history were developed using the technologies that the CTO knew and liked. Startups rarely fail because they used one technology vs. another.

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Why.Net???

Alon Schwartz

From the first day we started Docstoc people have been asking me “ why.Net ”? The concept of LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql, PHP) VS. Microsoft must change. All startups in the history were developed using the technologies that the CTO knew and liked. Startups rarely fail because they used one technology vs. another.

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