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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

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Remote First: Why Isn’t Every Company Boundaryless

ReadWriteStart

It wasn’t long ago that it made sense for companies, and especially Silicon Valley companies, to hire locally and have everyone working from one central location. Today, especially in tech hubs like Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York, or Seattle, none of these facts hold. Real estate was relatively cheap.

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

New emerging technologies have been the key catalyst for in-demand jobs. Positions for software development and data science continue to expand throughout the industry. These are software engineers, business analysts, project managers, graphic designers, and web developers. Saskatchewan is the silicon prairie.

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The Boundaryless Era: the Time for Distributed Teams

ReadWriteStart

And as they do so, the demand for high-quality engineering talent is going up exponentially. Toyota is a software company. Johnson and Johnson is a software company. Many more companies have realized they need to become software companies; otherwise, they risk becoming the Nokia or Blackberry of yesteryear.

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Our Recent Seed-Stage VC Investments

View from Seed

Furthermore, one of our recent investments was in Silicon Valley, as all three of us have lived and worked there. Finally, productivity mobile calendaring app Sunrise has been adding features which leverage demand-side economies of scale. We opportunistically invest in other geographies across the country as well.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 7 – Jack Shanahan

Steve Blank

We have a relatively small window to transform our respective Defense Department from Industrial Age hardware-centric organizations, to Information Age software-centric, more risk tolerant ones. In commercial tech you call that an integrated product team, It’s acquisition with software engineering with UI/UX.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Many people don’t realize that the majority of the monetization of the Internet originated in Los Angeles but was perfected in Silicon Valley. He built & IPOd Demand Media. But our best Internet software engineers have historically been exported on a net basis to the Bay Area. for $565 million to Excite.