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Tech, Our Work

STRV Named Leading LA Web Developer

Not to brag or anything, but we’ve just been named among the top 15 web development agencies in LA, according to a study conducted by Clutch, a B2B research firm based in Washington, DC. The ranking factored in client reference reviews, se...

Events, Community, Tech

Wrap-up: Silicon Valley Insights with Facebook’s Erich Owens

As virtual reality goes more and more mainstream, we decided to open the fall edition of Silicon Valley Insights with a test drive of Facebook Spaces, the social media giant’s new way of connecting people through VR. We flew Erich Owens, t...

Tech, Events, Our Work

Rapid.io Brings Its Hackathon Winners To Prague!

STRV organized a hackathon at the end of July to coincide with the official launch of our new cloud-hosting platform, Rapid.io, which allows software engineers to build real-time user interfaces for chat and messaging, live dashboards, onli...

Events, Community

Silicon Valley Insights presents Facebook’s Erich Owens

Our next Silicon Valley Insights evening featuring Facebook engineer and VR magician Erich Owens is less than a month away, and there are (literally) only a few tickets left, so reserve your seats today before they are gone, gone, gone! U...

Community

Grads talk about STRV Academy experience

There is still time to sign up for STRV Academy, a special 10-week summer education program geared towards junior developers and designers. Applications must be received by June 11. . We offer four development tracks – Android, iOS,...

Events, Wrap-up, Tech

Wrap-up: Silicon Valley Insights with Amazon’s Sudheera Vanguri

Sudheera Vanguri dropped by our offices last week to talk about her journey from Bangalore, where she worked as a full-stack developer at Yahoo, to Silicon Valley and eventually Amazon Web Services’s enviable AI division. Sudheera, a sen...

Our Work, Community

Essentials of STRV Academy, Class of 2017

What do Bill Gates, Steven Spielberg and Steve Jobs have in common? Yeah, you're right! They all started their careers as interns! A lot of us at STRV started off the same way they did and worked hard to become the experts we are today. The...

iOS, Wrap-up, Events

Wrap-up: iOS Meetup with Viper and Texture Framework

Can’t get enough of iOS? Yeah, neither can we. Back by popular demand, we held a second round of iOS meetups 2017 last week, hosting packed houses once again in Prague and Brno. The lineup this time included Viper, Texture Framework and Sna...

Our Work, Tech, Product Management

Learn about Perfecting the Kickoff Meeting from STRV’s Katie Guernsey

STRV Product Manager Katie Guernsey, who joined our LA team earlier this year, was featured on this week’s podcast of This Is Product Management produced by Alpha. Katie and host Mike Fishbein discuss perfecting the “inspiration and str...