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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. He wants a person who knows mobile development pretty well who can help direct the action (the expert), and he wants someone who is a good coder who can learn to build out the needed mobile application (the developer).

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How to Hunt Programmers for Your Startup - A Field Guide

SoCal CTO

Tech Events / Meetups - There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. He wants a person who knows mobile development pretty well who can help direct the action (the expert), and he wants someone who is a good coder who can learn to build out the needed mobile application (the developer).

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

Both Sides of the Table

They attended property management association meetings in Oregon outside of the technology echo chamber of California to get a sense for people’s daily problems. But I know enough to know that daily decisions / trade-offs are made by technology coders who have never spent a day with their customers.

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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

When I got to college, I did not see myself as a full-time coder, so I majored in biology, which was my favorite subject at the time. What networking events in Los Angeles or Southern California do you go to? Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. Graduated with a BS/MS in bio from Stanford.)

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Youth Entrepreneurs, Why You Should Help These Upstarts With Their Startups

Up and Running

They’re artists, designers, engineers, crafters, coders, and – oh yeah – high schoolers. California’s YEP ) that you can support. They eat multi-tasking for breakfast and treat every day like Earth Day. If they don’t like something, they recreate it for themselves, better. That’s right, teenagers.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

Then last year I decided to re-educate myself in software development, but this time as a regular ol’ coder. In the birthplace of Java, BSD, SQL and many other critical software technologies, Drupal and PHP are spreading like a California wildfire. Drupal is prevalent in the Silicon Valley ecosystem?

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Breaking The VC Business Model For Next-Gen Investors

YoungUpstarts

Not only did we upgrade the San Francisco “coder” uniform, we accelerated to profitability at warp speed to become what we strive for in all our companies: a “best practices brand.” It started out simply enough: I have a large wardrobe – but like most young creatives and developers here in the Bay Area, it’s all T-shirts and jeans.