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Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups

techcrunch.com

Zachary Bogue And Matt Ocko Launch Data Collective, An Early Stage Fund For Big Data Startups. Data Collective has already made 46 investments from its first fund, which it calls “comparable with other seed and early stage funds” (Ocko and Bogue wouldn’t reveal fund size.). Headphones. CrunchBase.

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The Market Is Hot for Code Climate, NextView’s Newest Investment

Genuine VC

Chad is the CEO of thoughtbot, a consulting firm that makes web + mobile apps for early-stage startups. The two companies had been working together for a while, especially as both are deeply embedded within the Ruby on Rails developer community, with a strong following for their respective offerings.

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Los Angeles Startup Events

SoCal CTO

I recently posted about the Increase in Early-Stage Startup Activity in Los Angeles. In that post, I mentioned how one of the signals is the big increase in number of startup events and the number of attendees at those events.

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Is gust.com a difficult platform to replicate?

Gust

As I’ve discussed elsewhere, Gust’s long-term goal is to serve as the infrastructure platform for the entire global, early stage finance industry. Instead, it is our eight years of indefatigable relationship and customer building with large segments of the world’s early stage finance industry.

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Pound Around the World – My Thoughts from Random Hacks of Kindness

VC Cafe

We deployed a demo on the cloud using Heroku – and I re-learned some of the challenges developers face in the early stages. View more presentations from Eze Vidra.

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Want to Know Difference Between a CTO and a VP of Engineering?

www.bothsidesofthetable.com

They’ll have a view on whether Ruby on Rails is worth the hassle. Others think you should never build anything highly scalable on Ruby. He focuses on early-stage technology companies. Or whether it’s a choice between using MySQL vs. Postgres. I’ve heard both arguments from CTO’s.

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A Google Docs interview with Richard Simms, co-founder of Tech Talent South

Jeff Hilimire

I was doing an early-stage startup in Chicago and Betsy was running a physical product development company in Charlotte that she’d recently sold. If you can get an 9 year old writing simple Ruby programs, launching websites, and generally understanding how technology can be used to solve problems, that’s a pretty exciting thing.