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

Both Sides of the Table

Let me start with the obvious baseline that most people probably know instinctively: Los Angeles is the 3rd largest technology startup ecosystem in the US. What is perhaps different from other regions is that we have large indigenous aerospace industry and a big high-tech import/export trade as opposed to a lot of software companies.

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Technical Advisors: Every Web/Mobile Startup Must Have One

SoCal CTO

In Los Angeles, I have easy access to a bunch of potential strategic technical advisors through the LA CTO Forum. I quite often get a call where a founder raised $150K of initial money and has spend $120K on in-house or outsourced development and the software is 90% done. Who's doing that for your CTO?

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

Both Sides of the Table

In Los Angeles the wins of Overture, Applied Semantics, MySpace, LowerMyBills, PriceGrabber, LegalZoom and the like have produced a large number of angels who are helping the next generation of LA entrepreneurs get started and succeed. Maker Studios. Savings.com. That IPOs and then continues rising. That has a B on the front.

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Remote First: Why Isn’t Every Company Boundaryless

ReadWriteStart

Today, especially in tech hubs like Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York, or Seattle, none of these facts hold. In other words, the most compelling reasons for NOT relying on remote engineering talent to build software no longer apply. We test for software engineering fundamentals, and we use technology-specific tests.

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Troubled media sharing startup Color Labs said to be acquired by Apple

The Next Web

For that, he turned to a previous relationship he had with Apple’s Senior Vice President Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue. Or its software engineering team could be the target, if Apple was impressed by their work. Those apps were then abandoned after he showed them off.

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Symptoms of a Weak Development Team

SoCal CTO

No questions being asked ( Startup Software Development – Do Your Homework Before You Develop Anything ) Rest of team says - “I’m not sure where we stand.” “I’m And the #1 reason I get calls relates to an old software engineering adage: The first 90% of a project takes half the time. Software development is challenging.

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

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He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. We then moved our Chief Software Architect over. I wanted several of the software engineers to join me at our next startup but their employment was tied to BuildOnline. I hope that didn’t have a stature of limitation!