blog.socaltech.com

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

I’ve covered this topic many times before, but I keep coming back to it, because everytime I turn around I’m talking with both startups and established companies in Southern California who are telling me they are looking for technical talent to join their company. Tags: Jobs Southern California. What’s in demand?

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Claims administrators are companies some insurers hire to investigate accidents and figure out how much to pay injured parties. And then there’s New York-based Lemonade, the most recent insurtech startup to make its way into California. Brokers need licenses too, but these are easier to get and maintain. She’s based in L.A.,

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 18, 2018

Research from the Universities of California, Berkley and Stanford University found that a big problem for many failed tech start-ups was premature scaling, essentially businesses growing too fast. The cost of hiring the wrong candidate can be substantial, wasting a lot of time and money without getting the desired results.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 16, 2021

It also allows businesses to create call playlists to accelerate new hires’ sales training and ramp-up process. Another issue that the startup faces is dealing with siloed data they are collecting on their growth journey and sharing the knowledge with the new hires and team. . You can use these call playlists for training new hires.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 22, 2018

Hiring a new employee is more expensive than you think. According to a 2010 study from the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) at the University of California-Berkeley, the average cost of a new hire is $4,000, plus salary and benefits. Who’s Your Star Hire? Resilience. Coachability. Personability.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 16, 2021

Whereas in the past, aspiring business owners would need to hire a lawyer, accountant, web developer, and more, customers can get all the assistance they need in one place. photography and design) Polling the Customers ZenBusiness polled roughly 500 customers to look at a host of factors relating to their businesses.

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ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It even penciled for Google in 1998, and it still worked well enough that Facebook chose to establish its headquarters in Palo Alto, California, in 2004. Hire anyone who fits the culture and mission of your company wherever they live. Hiring local talent will force you to pay more than you can afford. Ditto for Apple.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 19, 2010

And it’s not just me, Ben Kuo just posted - Good news for developers (and jobs) We’ve been talking with a lot (and I mean a LOT) of people who are looking for developers in Southern California (Los Angeles and beyond). Update from original - just saw a follow-up post by Ben Kuo - Southern California Technology Jobs Surge.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2012

Tech Events / Meetups - In Los Angeles, There are lots of Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California that are techie oriented. Hire a Product Design Lead First Nailing that elusive technical co-founder Take lots of them out for free coffee, food, beer. Ask them about your concept.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 24, 2018

Startup companies have to pay close attention to state income and sales tax nexus created by two prevalent factors: The remote workforces that potentially give a company physical presence in a state even if those employees are hired through a PEO; and economic presence standards.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 6, 2016

Of course as a non-Korean I can only generalize but when it was my turn I told her my experience of living in Europe and Japan where failure seemed less tolerated than my experience of living in California and working in the tech sector. Perhaps that’s changed in the decade since I left but that was my experience when I lived there.

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Up and Running

JUNE 28, 2021

For example, under California law , the minimum wage must be $14.00 An independent contractor (1099) doesn’t receive these protections, as employers who hire them don’t pay a portion of their taxes. New-Hire Reporting: Deadlines are tight for new hires, especially for calculating enforced or existing orders.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 22, 2013

The new hire process, particularly at the executive level, is a significant decision and can be quite involved. While there are a number of factors in play which combine to impact the recruiting and hiring process, there is one constant that drives the process of the search – the CEO always sets the tone. Sell the Dream.

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Mike Michalowicz

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

His practice, Complete Family Vision Care Optometry, is in San Diego, California. Dr. Aaron Neufeld, OD is an Owner/Optometrist at Los Altos Optometric Group in Los Altos, California. Action Steps: Review hiring processes and office processes for efficiency. Take that opportunity to ask for online reviews and referrals. .

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Board Effect

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Among the board’s official duties is to hire, monitor and evaluate the executive director and any other senior leaders. California was the first state to step out of the mold with its “Women on Boards” legislation, whereby all public companies based in California must have at least one woman on their boards by 2020.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 8, 2018

Hire a Contractor. While this can save money, it can also eat up the majority of your time, which is why it is best to hire a general contractor and several subcontractors to manage the project. For a maximum return, purchase the property for the lowest price possible.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 5, 2010

By 2006 he had received proper authorization to move back to the US to join a company in the town I grew up in: Sacramento, California. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! He spent a bunch of this time in Canada. Irony, hey?).

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I would discover that there was a more effective alternative in building a marketing department than hiring traditional marketers with MBA’s. I chose to hire engineers from within each of our target markets and set up “Steve’s one month MBA course for engineers.” These hires were definitely not your standard marketing types.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

— Sajan Pillai is the CEO and Managing Partner of Season Two Ventures, an early-stage venture fund based in Southern California. As Chairman of the Diversity Committee of STEM, Sajan introduced Step IT Up America to train and hire 5,000 women technologists, a program endorsed by political and industry leaders. ?He

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Up and Running

JUNE 21, 2021

At launch, the initial trajectory of Columbus Technologies , a California NASA spacecraft initiative business, looked promising, but after NASA downsized the budget available for their services, their revenue plummeted over 60 percent in just two weeks. Columbus Technologies and Services — To NASA and beyond.

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Steve Blank

JUNE 29, 2009

You’re Hired, You’re Fired. My first job in Silicon Valley: I was hired as a lab technician at ESL to support the training department. I packed up my life in Michigan and spent five days driving to California to start work. Could I work here if he wanted to hire me?&# Driving across the U.S. I was stunned.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Because I am true to the hiring practices I preach, I wanted a strong exec who would “ punch above their weightclass ” by taking a job they hadn’t yet done but would hugely aspire to and thus work harder to out perform. We will stay in LA and then Southern California before branching out into our 2nd & 3rd markets.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 26, 2020

They founded Onward, a platform that matches displaced workers--usually, hourly workers--to industries that are hiring rapidly right now. They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. A company headquartered in Fresno, California.

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SiliconHills

OCTOBER 13, 2021

By LAURA LOREK, Publisher of Silicon Hills News Like the California gold miners of yesteryear, San Antonio leaders are betting big on a new type of mining to bring the city good fortunes. The world is awash in big data and businesses, government, and the military all want to hire data scientists […]. It’s data mining.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Established in Cupertino, California in 1976, Apple really didn’t get on the map until the advent of the Macintosh in 1984, eight years later. You rarely hear about the owners who took out second mortgages to make payroll or to hire a salesperson. Apple - It took Steve Jobs two decades to become an overnight dot-com billionaire.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

On the California coast where I live, we see lifestyle entrepreneurs like surfers and divers who own small surf or dive shop or teach surfing and diving lessons to pay the bills so they can surf and dive some more. They hire local employees or family. They hire the best and the brightest. Most are barely profitable.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I thought I was pretty sell suited to answer that question because having grown up in Northern California but lived and worked in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain & Japan over 11 years I had seen quite a few societies and work environments. We hired outside experts. I have witnessed it working. I did not lose my hearing.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Hiring an expert or a coach to walk you through this stage can help you minimize the chances of failure although identifying the problem first can be a great way to create a long-lasting strategy. Joe Coulombe had an idea after running a small chain of convenience stores in southern California. Thanks to Daivat Dholakia, Essenvia ! #24-

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I had hired the VP of marketing from a potential software partner who was responsible to get all this 3 rd party software on our computer. In reality we hadn’t gotten any closer to our goal than the day we hired him. In fact, we would have been better off if we hadn’t hired him as we wouldn’t have confused a warm body with progress.

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Diego Basch

JULY 12, 2019

There are many services for which California is a good starting point (e.g. However, labor in California is particularly expensive. In terms of hiring software developers, it’s the most expensive location I know of; you’re competing for the best and brightest with the infinite pockets of Facebook, Google, and friends.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Since then it has become much harder to find people and while we are talking about hiring relatively small numbers of people, the typical sources of candidates dont seem to be working. Technology Jobs in Southern California – a Rebound. in Computer Science. He is a frequent speaker at industry and academic events. .

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SiliconHills

AUGUST 28, 2013

Another California company has put stakes down in Austin. 3 and hire up to 40 people. It will located in 7,000 square feet at the Stone Lake […] The post Auction.com Moves to Austin and Plans to Hire 40 appeared first on SiliconHills. Auction.com, based in Irvine, Calif.

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Steve Blank

MAY 9, 2017

I lived through the time when working in my first job in Ann Arbor Michigan we had to get out a map to find out that San Jose was not only in Puerto Rico but there was a city with that same name in California. Continuous innovation was here to stay and only founders – not hired execs – could play and win. That’s no longer the case.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

The key contributors to an out-of-control burn rate is 1) hiring a sales force too early, 2) turning on the demand creation activities too early, 3) developing something other than the minimum feature set for first customer ship.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 28, 2021

Hiring a lawyer for LLC formation might be a better option in this case. Hiring a lawyer for your LLC setup usually means the operating agreement is included with the rest of the professional advice that you get from the attorney or the law firm. The only costs that you will need to pay will be the state filing fee.

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Transformify

MARCH 5, 2020

Jordan holds several patents in distributed systems and wireless technology and lives with his family in Los Angeles, California. Jordan, why do you hire gig workers and freelancers ? At Parabol , we hire freelancers once we’ve determined that we’ll only need a certain set of skills for a specific period of time.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 25, 2014

Perl language developer Larry Wall tells a great anecdote : “When they built the University of California at Irvine, they did not put in any sidewalks the first year. Wix, a popular website builder, for example, has reportedly passed on a number of generous buy-out offers in order to concentrate on future growth and hiring.

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