After developing a website, web application or software the last thing we want is for our golden users that were so tough to attract in the first place to have a sluggish experience. GraphDat helps streamline the process of maintaining quick and reliable server performance.
LA based CapLinked, a cloud-based business transaction platform yesterday raised $1.6 million in a new round of financing from Peter Thiel, FF Angel, Siemer Ventures, 500 Startups, Andrej Henkler (former Bertelsmann executive), and Alexsis de Raadt-St. James (chairman of the Althea Foundation) and appointed Adam Sroka as Senior Vice President of Technology in a move to make business transactions simple and secure.
Being an entrepreneur is scary. Every day we have to make decisions we don’t know are right or wrong and most times we just do our best to trust our gut. Then people like Kevin Winston storm into a city like Superman to save the day and make all our lives just a little bit easier. That’s what Kevin’s conference, Silicon Beach Fest (SBF), did for Los Angeles entrepreneurs.
I am the Gogobot Community Manager of West Los Angeles. I represent Gogobot to our devoted user base and develop relationships with hotels, restaurants, social venues, and travel-related businesses. This helps me bring awareness to the Gogobot brand and promote the experience of travelling.
During the past twelve months we’ve seen (and heard) a great deal of conservation around crowdfunding and what it has brought to an exploding entrepreneurship community. As it’s brought life to numerous new projects while offering entrepreneurs an additional outlet for receiving funding.
At Silicon Beach Fest Hollywood 2012 Kevin Winston organized a panel called “How to Find and Hire a Developer”. Below are some take away tips… and the video of the of the panel.
I was recently listening to a rant from an associate who was perturbed that his team had not won a pitch event the night before. To be more accurate; he was more upset that he was beaten by a concept that he had bested before in similar contests. He could not understand why the judges chose to bestow first place on a concept that was clearly inferior to his.
Launched August this year in the San Francisco Bay Area and Greater Boston by Pat Kinsel, Alex Lambert, and Simon Yun, the location based application is an asset for people who want to discover what is happening around them in real time.
Often I work with business owners who think their company is in need of a traditional audit. My first question for them is always…why?
In some cases, the high level of assurance of an audit is required and no other substitute will do. Third parties, like investors and lenders, may insist on assurance that the financial statements they are basing their decisions on accurately represent the state of your financial condition.
We know what it is to love our jobs, we spend the whole day in office and don’t want to leave. But there are friends who seem to hate every minute that goes buy during their working hours.
Now a new startup called LifeSwap wants to end that frustartion.
