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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

I’ve covered this topic many times before, but I keep coming back to it, because everytime I turn around I’m talking with both startups and established companies in Southern California who are telling me they are looking for technical talent to join their company. Build a Facebook application or other social networking app.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. The test for non-obvious is: given the prior art at the time of the invention, would a typical engineer 1) identify the problem, and 2) solve it with the invention? In the U.S.

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Nicolas Brusson discusses BlaBlaCar’s journey from French success story to global winner

Cracking the Code

There were no social networks, let alone sharing economy then, so it took a while to take off. Very few startups say they’re building products for California or the US. What advice would you give entrepreneurs on how to think about the architecture and structure of their products? They’re building them for the world.

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supermac War Story 7: Rabbits Out of the Hat - Product Line Extensions

Steve Blank

The plug-in co-processor architecture was too complex and couldn’t be made to work reliably. Now we were faced with the fact that even though we were gaining market share daily, there was nothing coming out of Engineering. Instead of eight boards, Engineering was going to be able to deliver one new graphics board.

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12 Questions: Meet Pamela Harvey (USA)

crowdSPRING Blog

I have lived and worked in many cities, but mostly in California, where I was part of two design firms, one that specialized in private label cosmetics and skin care, and the other was almost completely branding and package design for wine, spirits, and beverages. Pam lives and works in Bristol, Rhode Island. 6) Mac or PC?

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

Then from a bottoms-up standpoint what you said is exactly right, I think, which is that the new generation of employees grew up on smartphones and tablets and touch and everything, social networking and Twitter and everything else. They are going to be doing all of the same kinds of things.