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[Infographic] 2012 Q3: Software Engineering Salaries in Silicon Valley

YoungUpstarts

Software engineers are extremely high in demand, and over the past few years the growth in their salaries has shown exactly how much in demand they are. Salaries, representative of software engineers and developers at emerging growth companies within the Bay Area – have grown by 5.3-percent Their conclusion?

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Crowdsourcing Hope With Online Donation Platform GoFundMe

YoungUpstarts

San-Diego, California-based GoFundMe essentially is a crowdfunding platform that lets someone collect donations for a personal cause or a life event. The company has seen 20% average monthly growth in the last year, is on track to handle $3 million in donations this August alone, and projects a total of nearly $40 million in 2012.

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Free Startup Docs: How Much Equity Should Advisors Get?

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Disrupt SF 2012. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012. San Francisco, California. Project Manager Dice Holdings Software Engineer, Python, YouTube Google/YouTube Web Developer Yelp Inc. © 2012 AOL Inc. Upcoming Events. San Francisco, CA. Crunch with us. Follow @TechCrunch. 2011 Holiday. Gift Guide. Crunchboard.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Around $400 billion of imports & exports pass through the LA ports each year, which set the national high-water mark in 2012. As a result we have a large number of locally employed engineers with video experience that will fuel the next boom of the Internet (Americans watch 5.3 36% of all apparel jobs in the US are in Los Angeles.

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. HBS Angels will likely execute this in 2012. Just like me, they’re distressed about the poor economy and jobs situation.

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Convertible Equity, A Better Alternative To Convertible Debt?

techcrunch.com

Friday, August 31st, 2012. Yokum Taku, Corporate and Securities Partner at the Palo Alto, California Office of Wilson Sonsini agrees, “I can’t think of a good reason not to shift early stage seed financings toward convertible equity away from convertible debt.”. Disrupt SF 2012. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012. Disrupt SF.

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Bright Unveils A Data-Driven Approach To The Job Search, Raises $6M

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Previously, he was a staff technology writer at Adweek, worked as a senior editor at the tech blog VentureBeat, and was also a reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, where he won awards from the California Newspaper Publishers Association for breaking news coverage and writing. Disrupt SF 2012. Disrupt SF Hackathon 2012.

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