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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

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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. Why do I say that?

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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. But crowdsourcing donations, however – like trying to raise funds for victims of a natural disaster or a child fighting cancer – has been near impossible.

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Why The Future Of US High-Tech Is Bright

YoungUpstarts

A global market enables the company to sell vastly more copies of its software without increasing its production costs. The same is true for Internet services, digital media and most products that involve significant up-front research and development (R&D) costs. This article was first posted in The Financialist.].

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Out of the Crisis #20: the founders of Bitwise on the role of technology in empowering people, spreading benefits to underserved communities, and the creation of OnwardUS

Startup Lessons Learned

They created a program called Onward California in partnership with the State of California and with the support of governor Newsom. Their model in California was so successful they eventually created a new organization, Onward US, dedicated to putting American workers displaced by COVID-19 back to work.

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

Both Sides of the Table

He built & IPOd Demand Media. LA is the largest metropolitan area in the US for people employed in art, design and media and the local creative economy of LA generates more than $140 billion in economic output – more than the GDP of many countries. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 for $565 million to Excite.

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

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Anthony Ha is a writer at TechCrunch, where he covers media, advertising, and startups. BRIGHT MEDIA CORPORATION. Company: Bright Media Corporation. San Francisco, California. Follow me on twitter. The company is also announcing that it has raised a $6 million Series A from undisclosed angel investors. Crunchbase.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

We are in Santa Clara, California, still holding up well. Eric Ries : That's a remarkable use of social media. We are staying in the same Airbnb that we stayed in the past five months since arriving in California for YC. Alpha Lee : Yeah, it's been good so far. Eric Ries : Amen to that. Alpha Lee : Yeah. Alpha Lee : Yeah.