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

socalTECH

Jim Franklin: Web developers are good at building web applications. However, every web application needs and email component. It starts when you register for a web application, the app send you a confirmation email, which is transactional email. Receivers such as Gmail, AOL, and Yahoo don't trust that number.

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Ten of Southern California's Top Software Companies

SoCal Delicious

SendGrid has seen massive growth and adoption, as thousands of web developers have discovered that the company--which has major. firm's co-founder and CEO, was VP Emerging Ad Products at Overture/Yahoo; co-founder John Zimmerman was Managing Director of. Retention Science is figuring. customers based on that data.

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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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Interview with Eric Hovanec and Steve Reich, LeisureLink

socalTECH

I became an angel investor after Overture was acquired by Yahoo. Eric Hovanec: Web developers, operations folks, and we have openings in sales and account management. Talk a bit about your background and how you guys ended up at LeisureLink? Eric Hovanec: Both Steve and I are angel investors.

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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! … challenge: Competing with Yahoo!, Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Elements of Sustainable Companies

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. I guess this is how a world-class firm like Sequoia Capital finds and invests in world-class companies such as Google, Yahoo!, Startup 3.0: Be scrappy. ReaXions, Inc. I think this list is spot on.

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