The Business of Web Development

Expertise, wisdom and resources for entrepreneurs and startups.

Please join us as Nate focuses on scaling your application and David will focus on copyright protection and business stragegies for funding.

http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/1/f/6/0/event_230768032.jpegNate will cover some best practices for scalable applications. Along with addressing how to architect for scalability and why it's important to have different specialists/companies handle the respective parts, Nate will cover strategies for managing these relationships and your assets.

Nate Johnson (https://twitter.com/N8works) is the founder and CEO of Reliam (https://twitter.com/Reliam). He worked on some of the first internet application architectures and continues to stay a step ahead of the industry by providing his clients with state of the art services. Nate founded Reliam (formerly Ristech) in 2001, and continually pushes the boundaries with company reliability and employee expertise. Reliam provides solutions for the largest internet events in the world, the top interactive media agencies and the world's most recognized brands.

http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/c/3/9/8/event_235850072.jpegL.A. Tech & Media Law Firm, David Sharifi (http://twitter.com/latechlaw) is a entertainment technology attorney concentrating in trademark protection, startup funding, licensing and new media law.

Prior to founding L.A. Tech & Media Law Firm (http://www.latml.com), David worked as a private legal and marketing advisor to several firms while moonlighting to develop his own idea and startup, CleenCell® Wipes and the Mobile Hygiene™ Program, a product that is sold in retail stores and hospitals. This entrepreneurial experience, along with a passion for innovation and the greater good, combined with exclusive concentration on entertainment, media, technology and the legal and business affairs behind these industries for over a decade guides David’s counsel to clients from a perspective that few attorneys can match.

During law school David contributed to the Journal of International Media & Entertainment Law and founded the “Hollywood Headlines” column in the school newspaper and served under in-house counsel in the legal department of an international advertising agency based in Los Angeles with particular focus on television advertising, production, and direct response marketing.

David graduated from University of California, Los Angeles (B.A.) focusing in Political Science and Mass Media, and Southwestern Law School (J.D.) ranked #4 in America’s Top 10 Entertainment Law Schools by The Hollywood Reporter in 2012.

David and is a member of the California State Bar, the Beverly Hills Bar Association Entertainment Division, and the International Academy of Web Television. David's consultation and legal or business affairs services can be seen here. (http://latml.com/attorney-profiledavidsharifientertainmentlawyer/)

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