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

Genuine VC

When Chad Pytel introduced me to Bryan Helmkamp , CEO/Co-founder of Code Climate , I knew that I had to pay attention. Chad is the CEO of thoughtbot, a consulting firm that makes web + mobile apps for early-stage startups. Today Code Climate is announcing that they’ve raised a $2M round of financing , led by us at NextView Ventures.

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5 Free Platforms Entrepreneurs Should Be Using To Manage And Streamline Their Business

YoungUpstarts

Once you have reviewed that resource and you have your bearings on what it takes to get started, you can start thinking about streamlining and implementing extensions of your business (think accounting and payroll, apps, ecommerce, etc). Use Wix to build a professional website for free. Best way to manage your social media – Hootsuite.

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3 Tips To Help Small Businesses Get More Customers In A Post-Google Search World

YoungUpstarts

Additionally, it is critical to make sure to syndicate out descriptions rich with keywords. 88% of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations 2. Yelp (the most popular local review app and powers Apple Maps). Facebook (has more than 3x the reviews of Yelp). Syndicate Content Out, Build Links In.

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

Game streaming continues to grow in 2021 – According to StreamElements 2020 year in review , game streaming broke new records in 2020. According to Gamesbeat , the streaming wars will spill over to the cloud gaming wars, with media companies, streaming companies and telcos looking to include gaming packages in their offerings.

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How Podcasting Can Transform Your Business: Lessons in Networking and Lead Generation

Duct Tape Marketing

Josh Elledge is a keynote speaker, writes a syndicated newspaper column to 1.1 Click on over and give us a review on iTunes, please! And so I was hand coding my own podcast, RSS feeds. I got bills that are due in two weeks. That's what I write my syndicated newspaper column about. So Josh, welcome to the show.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

If engineers want more time to spend making their old code more pretty, they are invited to do so on the weekends. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.) The current code is spaghetti, but the new code will be elegant. Its become "legacy code" and part of the problem.

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

Both Sides of the Table

Here’s my experience, my “ah ha&# moment and why I think, although still nascent, it’s one of the most powerful websites on the web right now. And to give credit where it’s due (in addition to the content that Fred producers) a lot of the discussion works well because of the Disqus commenting platform.