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

Both Sides of the Table

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) It is clear that good software engineers avoid you. Really skillful software engineers do not use.NET. Embedded software engineer.

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