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Middle-East-Meets-West Provides An Edge For B2B Tech Companies

YoungUpstarts

In addition, San Francisco is within striking distance of other major US B2B tech markets, like New York and Chicago. As any engineering VP based in San Francisco knows, it’s a competitive market for technical talent. In the US, most software engineers enter the workforce following college.

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

Both Sides of the Table

The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words. Is it any surprise to see Zulily in Seattle, Wayfair in Boston, ExactTarget in Indianapolis, TrueCar in Los Angeles, GroupOn in Chicago or BuzzFeed in NYC?

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. It’s a very smartly designed debenture program. What can you do to attract high-quality engineers who want something more?

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Finance Fridays

Feld Thoughts

I got a bunch, but one that stood out was from a group of incoming MBA students at the University of Chicago Booth. In the mean time, please meet the Finance Fridays team: Jonathan Wolter has been a lead consultant and software engineer at ThoughtWorks working for clients in Silicon Valley, Texas, Chicago, and India.

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Essential Facts and Statistics Every Entrepreneur Must Know

crowdSPRING Blog

Start by making sure you build a great business brand, including a strong business name and a memorable logo design. We’re partial to Chicago. Chicago is home to many successful startups, including crowdspring, Chicago boasts a thriving startup scene, an incredible 10 times a return on investment, and pretty outstanding hot dogs.

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The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011

crowdSPRING Blog

is the first company to devise s system to effectively crowdsource SEO (search engine optimization) services. Paid search typically involves the use of thousands of keywords and dozens or even hundreds of specifically targeted ads which are delivered when a user types a query into a search engine. JJ’s List.

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Developer Bootcamp Teaches Regular Folks To Code - and Maybe Get a Job at a Startup

ReadWriteStart

The Developer Bootcamp is designed to help anyone get started coding - and they might even get a job at a startup or tech heavyweight out of it as well. Software is eating the whole world and in 10 or 20 years, if you don't know how to program it [will be] like 50 years ago not knowing how to read and write.

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