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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. Visit your friends and ask them to bring you to their dev shop. Ask your friends to visit their dev shop/programmers on their behalf. What will motivate these two people?

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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? Who are some of your go to people in Los Angeles? Graduated with a BS/MS in bio from Stanford.)

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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. Visit your friends and ask them to bring you to their dev shop. Ask your friends to visit their dev shop/programmers on their behalf. What will motivate these two people?

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What Living in Silicon Beach Has Taught Me About Innovation

Growthink Blog

I live and work in Playa Vista - that part of Los Angeles effectively known as “Silicon Beach” for the hundreds of technology companies started and headquartered in the area. Among these is the somewhat uninspiring sameness of the typical tech startup - i.e. younger coders developing “apps" of - dare I say - “marginal” societal value.

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Startup Advice: When to Use a Consulting CTO

rapidrollout.wordpress.com

Also, many software developers you meet are pure coders at heart, preferring to work from a well-defined scope and an established specification, and lacking the crucial CTO talent of transforming a project from pure vision into engineering process. I also run a small firm that provides CTO level help to start-ups in Los Angeles and Seattle.

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

I have been involved with a high profile one in Los Angeles – Launchpad LA – and we’ve decided to make a shift so I thought this was a good time for reflection. We handed our offices over to our friends at General Assembly , who now use the space to train LA’s next generation of coders.

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8 Ways to Recession-Proof Your Programming Career

Software By Rob

To this end, I just wanted to say that as a tech recruiter based in Los Angeles whose client portfolio is predominantly Saas, web 2.0, 9 Recession Proof Your Programming Skills - Nick Berardi’s Coder Journal on 04.16.09 So there are plenty of ‘interesting’ opportunities for skilled developers. at 11:31 am [.]