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Come Check Out a Very Important LA Tech Event on June 1st

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Developer mentors and judges from AT&T, i.am.angel, Google, Scopely, CGI, Factual, and ESRI and the City and County of LA will support coders during the weekend. Not a coder? Teams can choose to respond to local or national data challenges, or work on their own projects that incorporate civic data and community impact objectives.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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But I know enough to know that daily decisions / trade-offs are made by technology coders who have never spent a day with their customers. I know you could tell me this was an error in product management or with our whole process and I couldn’t argue. If you’re a startup – fix this.

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What Future for Accelerators?

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We handed our offices over to our friends at General Assembly , who now use the space to train LA’s next generation of coders. And since we all knew that Sam’s dealflow and judgment were sound we empowered him to make early-stage, accelerator-like investments in early-stage entrepreneurs under the Upfront brand.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

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For a team, there’s a lot of effort required to keep people on the same page, so for any company you need a really clear sense of your mission that is understood by everyone (from the CEO to the coders). If you succeed in this than everyone on the team will understand how their work contributes to that mission.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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But you’d have to be a pretty heads-down coder to not have noticed the past 2+ weeks in the DJIA. On the positive side, corporate profits are up, their balance sheets have been repaired and they have recapitalized themselves to have lower amounts of debt relative to equity. Not just tech companies but industrials, too.

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