K9 Ventures

JUNE 22, 2011

As Ren and I sat there listening to their stories, in between the panels and talks, I asked him yet again “So did you finalize the name for the company?” We talked about several markets — security, defense, professional (DSLRs), consumer (Point-and-Shoots), mobile (cell phones), IP licensing, lens adapters, etc.

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Technical Review IP New York Portfolio 134

uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

They can be positive (such as indicating that the form was submitted successfully) or negative (“The user name you have selected is already taken”). Base the name of the form on its purpose. That name will inform users what the form is about and why they should fill it in. Smashing Directory. Designinformer. Newsletter.

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Web Software Review Design HTML 102

techblog.netflix.com

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

The Netflix cloud systems group recently created a Cloud Performance Team to focus on characterizing the performance of components such as Cassandra, and helping other teams make their code and AWS usage more efficient to reduce latency for customers and costs for Netflix. This team is currently looking for an additional engineer.

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EC2 Caching Software Review Java 68

www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We launched in January 2010 after burning through just $4k of cash. Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid. Make sure you own all the IP created during this trial period, and make no promises for later. Huge upfront software licensing fees.

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Founder Startup Cofounder Vesting 51

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code.

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Java PHP Software Review Coder 107

mashable.com

JULY 4, 2012

Ever since Google started naming its algorithm updates after furry black and white creatures, we’ve been inundated with talks of pandas and penguins, and how they’re taking down websites one ranking at a time. Title Tags: Still put your most important keyword first in your title tag, but make sure you have your brand name in there, too.

Algorithm 93

Algorithm Technical Review San Francisco SEO 93

www.vccafe.com

MARCH 11, 2013

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Add a class name to buttons, forms, quotes, etc. s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! IP Location Tools. Code Igniter.

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Software Review Technical Review Startup 53

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

In fact, I am convinced that if you could find some of IMVU’s earliest adopters, they would say something like this: “sure, those guys at IMVU HQ were helpful in writing code and stuff, but in the end they were just the hired help. peer review is NOT working. It was really the community who built that product.&#

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