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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

socalTECH

Jim Franklin: Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service. We move transactional mail between web applications and end users. Explain why someone would use your service, rather than set up your own email servers? Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications. What is Sendgrid?

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Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies

SoCal Delicious

used in a very wide range of both web and mobile services, from Foursquare, to Yelp, to LivingSocial. other developers to incorporate into their own apps. other developers to incorporate into their own apps. broadcast, and much more all in a cloud based service. The firm's software is now being. Retention Science.

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Interview with Eric Hovanec and Steve Reich, LeisureLink

socalTECH

funding round for the firm's travel booking service. For those who haven't seen LeisureLink before, explain how your service works? We've got a software-as-a-service platform that handles all of that for them--all they have to do is hand the guest the key. I became an angel investor after Overture was acquired by Yahoo.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

skip to main | skip to sidebar SoCal CTO Thursday, March 22, 2007 Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups Ive been participating in a Yahoo Group that are users of LinkedIn and who are Bloggers: [link] Its an interesting group of folks from diverse backgrounds.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

The difference is that VoiceXML does not leverage customers' knowledge of web development. By 2008, I was only a couple years away from the brain damage I suffered at CallWave, after the executive team turned down acquisition overtures from Google and Yahoo (I'll write about this colossal mistake in a future confessional article).

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 1.0: “The Bug Bite” - The Internet Needs a Card Catalogue (I guess that’s a search engine)

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. It was an Internet search engine and directory "dot-com" (competitor to Yahoo!, we didnt even know Yahoo! Take care of the customer: Good ‘ole fashion customer service works. Startup 3.0:

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How brain-amputated developers created the social media plague

SoCal Delicious

Their developers are just too fucking lazy to understand such protocols that every respected service on the Web (search engines…) obeys. Some of these bots even provide an HTTP_REFERER to lure you into viewing the website operated by their shithead of developer when you’re viewing your referrer stats.