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General Assembly Raises $35M In Funding Round

socalTECH

General Assembly , which conducts classes on web development, Photoshop, Javascript, digital marketing, and all kinds of other topics through its location in Los Angeles, has just scored a $35M funding round, a Series C for the company.

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Web Framework Performance - Startup Founders Need to See These Numbers

SoCal CTO

Many of us are putting more into the front-end and having the application logic and back-end exposed through JavaScript (JSON) APIs. I've found myself looking mostly at talent and time to market. You may get into the market, but just know that you are going to pay the price when you start to get traction.

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Interview with Brian McKelvey, Worlize

socalTECH

The firm's CEO is Brian McKelvey , who we caught up with recently to learn more about his background, the firm, and the market it hopes to serve. Earlier this month, Los Angeles-based startup Worlize (www.worlize.com) announced it had received a seed round of funding, and launched a firm to focus on social gaming and chat.

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Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

InfoChachkie

“Working in a startup… you will be paid less than market rate, but… I would advise you to take the two skills that nobody wants, which happen to be the two most valuable skills you can develop in your youth. Learn JavaScript. Number one is sales. Life is sales. .” ’ Just know the basics. Learn HTML.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

Both Sides of the Table

If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. And then you need to market it. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? Consider it a sales & marketing expense for them. But I don’t have money to pay a fancy lawyer – I’ll just have my cousin do it - Don’t. Here’s a hack for you.

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A Night Of #Hackfest With BetterWorks

Tech Zulu Event

A senior marketing director that will run online marketing, customer acquisition, and customer development efforts, 2. Senior and junior Rails and mobile (javascript) developers familiar with b2b software. They’re looking to fill the following spots, 1.