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1500 Articles match "2009","Development"
The Latest from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Santa Monica-based Image Metrics , a developer of facial animation software and services, has raised $8.0M for fiscal 2009. in funding and gone public through a reverse merger. According to Image Metrics, it has entered into an exchange offer with International Cellular Industries, an OTC BB firm traded as ICLA, to become a pubicly traded company. Image Metrics said that ICLA will change its name to Image
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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
This morning, we published the results of an extensive study of the impact of venture capital companies on Southern California in terms of exit values, finding that exits from VC-backed firms between 1995 and 2009 generated an astounding $48 billion (billion with a capital B) in value.
Southern California has been lucky in that it has developed a number of clusters where there are now self-sustaining groups of technology companies, helping to bolster the region’s employment and wealth.
The study, which was conducted by Jon Funk of Ocean Road Partners (also of Allegis Capital), used data from our own venture capital database, additional data from Dow Jones/VentureSource, as well as private data collected by Redpoint Venturs’ Greg Martin.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
The Orange County meeting is new for 2009, and while the following is true for the LA meeting the OC one is probably similar: You pay as you walk in, meet the organizers, get a name tag, fill a plate from the buffet, and then find a seat, family style, with the other approximately 100 networkers. Its success in New York quickly led to French Tuesdays being established in Miami in 2004, Los Angeles in 2006, San Francisco in 2007 and Paris in 2009. Send me your new, updated, or reviews of networking events and organizations. The Notable & Where I'm Going... Tell them you heard about it from Todd's blog! I'll be speaking (yes, yours truly) on “Effective Networking for Entrepreneurs” at the GroundUP Business Group 's Tuesday, March 9th 7-8:30pm, at Zephyr Coffee House, 2419 E Colorado Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91107 .
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The Best from the Southern California Tech Central Community
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Wednesday, December 9, 2009
I just had an all-too common conversation with the founder of a startup who had spent more than a year working with a software development company who had produced a mess. The mess really comes from a developer who was willing to get started on a product that was not fully thought out. I always take a very different approach in early conversations. If I’m being asked to do startup software development, Some founders are taken aback. They are calling me to go build what they tell me to build.
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Friday, February 13, 2009
Tags: hiring culture startonomics team developmen Recently, I was asked to present my philosophy and methodology toward building what I call A++ teams at the Startonomics conference. Below, you'll find the video recording of the presentation and the actual presentation itself.My apologies for the lack of posting to my blog -- I broke my arm snowboarding six weeks ago which makes it hard to write. :-)A Plus Teams
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Tuesday, August 11, 2009
Tags: Design Development Interview User Experienc We keep seeing that people are drawn to elegant products and web sites, but HOW do you design elegance if you weren’t born with Steve Jobs’s design eye?
I asked Matthew May to come to Mixergy and teach you the elements of elegance and give you a framework that will help you create with more elegance.
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Monday, November 16, 2009
He essentially mentored me into becoming more than an engineer, becoming a product manager, and by the end of Tickle, I was not just a coder, I was managing a team of ten people including marketing, design, business development and engineering, and et cetera. Here's an easy way to vote for this interview on Hacker News. --Andrew Andrew
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Friday, February 13, 2009
Tags: hiring culture startonomics team developmen Recently, I was asked to present my philosophy and methodology toward building what I call A++ teams at the Startonomics conference. Below, you'll find the video recording of the presentation and the actual presentation itself.My apologies for the lack of posting to my blog -- I broke my arm snowboarding six weeks ago which makes it hard to write. :-)A Plus Teams
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
Quite often the goal is to get them into an excel spreadsheet in a form that allows people to easily play with them. Startup Metrics for Pirates (SeedCamp, Sept 2009) View more documents from Dave McClure . What Dave McClure's presentation does is point to some additional metrics that are useful to think about and consider: A : Acquisition - where / what channels do users come from? A : Activation - what % have a "happy" initial experience? R : Retention - do they come back & re-visit over time? R : Referral - do they like it enough to
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Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Los Angeles-based social networking site is looking to court developers with the launch of a development contest, the MySpace Developer Challenge , the firm said recently. Tags: myspace developer challenge contest prize social networking application softwar The site said the challenge will award $50,000 between winners submitting MySpace applications, which use the firm's Real-Time Stream API, Open Search API, Photo Upload API, or which integrate the service on the Apple iPhone. Judges on the contest include Mike Jones, COO of MySpace; angel investor Ron Conway; Google's
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Saturday, August 15, 2009
Once you have settled on a strong positioning statement, you can develop sound strategies for your marcom programs. When you develop a marcom strategy based on a sound strategic marketing view of your market your marcom program will be more effective -- and customers will have a better, more consistent brand experience.
Developing a Sales Strategy
Raising awareness of your product in your target market is where sales begin, and this is where marketing communications activities begin the selling process.
With today's multiple channels for content to reach potential
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Monday, December 14, 2009
Just saw a great post by Mark Geller - Developers wanted… in Los Angeles, U.S.A. (you can get to know Mark a bit more in my post Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller ). Mark tells us: there is a lot of demand for developers right here in L.A. who would love to talk with you. There’s quite a bit of truth to what Mark is saying about startup software developers, but my guess is that If you have solid web skills and a few years experience, either with a commercial company or running your own legit projects, there are dozens of companies in L.A. reduced salary,
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Sunday, May 17, 2009
But it was not until the last couple years that I updated my skills and capabilities in web development. You can experiment with web development on your Mac. do not know much about PHP yet, but I am able to do everything mentioned in this post without basic PHP or MySQL knowledge, since most of the apps I run were developed by someone else. I first started messing around with HTML in DreamWeaver and Claris Home Page around 1999 to put up my own music website. I would like to share what I have learned.
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