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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

blog.socaltech.com

My conclusion: if you’re a software engineer, with good technical background and ability, you can pretty much write your own ticket in Southern California. Show you can code in any number of popular web technologies, such as Ruby on Rails, PHP, Python, etc. Get involved in open source, as much as you can.

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Technical Co-Founders Are A Myth

blog.captainrecruiter.com

Two years ago I got the bug to do an online recruiting startup and I began the hunt to find a technical co-founder - a software engineer who works for no cash - to help me build my dream website. You may get a software engineer to start something for you, but they wont stick with the project when it gets difficult.

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Finding a Technical Cofounder

bizthoughts.mikelee.org

BizThoughts Thoughts about business, technology, the web & entrepreneurship About Booklist Contact Nov 15 2011 Finding a Technical Cofounder By Mike Lee Categories: Entrepreneurship , Leadership Since I have a technical background, I get about one offer a month to join some engineering team, or to be a technical cofounder.

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Choosing Technologies for Your Web Startup (Part 2)

crowdSPRING Blog

Some of the big guys (notably Google, Facebook, LiveJournal) have embraced open source and the results are trickling out to us. Unfortunately, in the world of software engineering, that’s a very real risk. Is the technology open sourced? Java, PHP, Python, Ruby? Once again, check the blogs.

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What is Drupal? or, My retraining in Software Development

Scalable Startup

Sure you have Ruby, Python, many others, but PHP is winning because it’s so accessible to newbies, and it manipulates the server side continuously, allowing e-commerce, social, geolocation and other apps. Drupal is also free open source software with functionality for every possible web application. What is Drupal?

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

View More » Jobs Ruby on Rails Developer at Mashable (. View More » Social Good President Obama Tells Gay Teens "It G. GE Campaign Turns YouTube Videos and. Social Good Is as Easy as Texting 3 Ways Small Businesses are Investing. Ed Helms and Celebrity Friends Fight. JoinSquare at Square, Inc. Marketing Manager at Fanscape (Lo.

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Teach 'Em to Tinker

This is going to be BIG.

And yet the number of software developers in NYC who work at startups has probably grown tenfold in the last eight years, leading me to ask the question of whether or not putting code in the classroom will make the biggest impact on innovation in our community. Don''t get me wrong--I think software literacy is extremely important.

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