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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. Tags: Jobs Southern California. Why do I say that?

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

by Enrico Moretti, author of “ The New Geography of Jobs ” Over the past three months, Facebook, Zynga and Groupon have lost between 33% and 52% of their market value. Is the entire sector destined to a sudden and quick demise, similar to the dot-com bust of 2001, with widespread stock market collapses and mass layoffs?

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

Both Sides of the Table

He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story.

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Massacre at IBM

Steve Blank

Long before there was the Lean Startup, Business Model Canvas or Customer Development there was a guy in Santa Barbara California who had already figured it out. consisted of product manager, hardware-engineering manager, software-engineering manager, applications analyst, and software designer.

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Solving Hard Problems: Traptic’s Harvesting Robots

K9 Ventures

Yes, strawberry harvesting alone is soon going to be a billion dollar market in the US. And over 90% of the US strawberry production happens in California, within a short driving distance from Traptic’s headquarters in Sunnyvale. Traptic has built an amazing team of hardware and software engineers to help solve this problem.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

If you want the full SlideShare deck with many slides not in either post it’s in this link –> The LA Tech Market. Has it begun to mature or is it just better marketed than in was say 5 years ago? Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly.

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

In addition, those humans, collectively, are the majority of America and they reside disproportionately in non-primary markets. They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. A company headquartered in Fresno, California.

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