STRV Blog

Community, Events, Wrap-up

STRV Tech Talks: How to grow a $2 billion startup

As the original CTO of Tinder, Ryan Ogle knows a thing or two about growing a $2 billion startup from the ground up. We invited him to come talk about his tenure at the world’s biggest dating app and how he hopes to find success again as th...

Events, Community, Wrap-up

Wrap-up: Women in Tech with Claire Schmidt, founder of AllVoices

As part of our Women in Tech series, we hosted a special fireside chat with Claire Schmidt, who left her job as vice president at 20th Century Fox to found AllVoices, a site that gives employees a platform to anonymously report workplace ha...

Our Work, Marketing

STRV Named Leading LA Mobile App and Design Agency

For the second year in a row, we’ve been named one of the top 15 web and mobile app development agencies in LA by Clutch, a B2B research firm based in Washington, DC. Our design team also ranked among the best of the best. We were specifica...

Our Work, Android

STRV named Google-certified agency for second consecutive year

Our Android department is on fire! For the second consecutive year, STRV has been named a Google Developer Certified Agency, joining a group of just 34 other tech companies from around the world for a spot in this elite invite-only engineer...

Tech, Android

Android App Architecture Made Simple — Part I: ViewModelBinding

In this series, we would like to present you with a set of tools we designed to simplify the development of Android apps in 2018 using Android Architecture Components. All of the tools leverage great Kotlin language features to make the cod...

Community, Events, Wrap-up

Women in Tech Wrap-up: Power Dynamics in Fundraising & Scaling Business

In honor of National Women’s History Month, we organized a special roundtable discussion on March 20 with some of the most dynamic female VCs and startup founders in New York City. The event, co-organized by T3 Advisors and Silicon Valley B...

Community, Talent, Events, Wrap-up

STRV Tech Talks: Managing Remote Teams

For our first Tech Talk of the year, we decided to take a closer look at a rapidly growing trend in the IT sector -- remote teams. The guest speakers included Han Yuan, Senior VP of Engineering at Upwork; Radha Shenoy, Director of Product E...

Talent, Tech

How Google steps into recruitment tech

Only recently has Google decided to finally enter the house of recruitment with an entire set of promising recruitment solutions. To get a closer look, we’ve met with Bogomil Balkansky, Vice President at Google for Cloud recruitment solutio...

iOS, Wrap-up, Events, Community

Wrap-up: iOS Meetup with localizing storyboards and stereo photography

Our iOS team ushered in the new year with a stimulating meetup that covered a range of hot topics from localizing storyboards to stereo photography. There was also a presentation about building dev teams — because, hey, it’s always importan...