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Middle-East-Meets-West Provides An Edge For B2B Tech Companies

YoungUpstarts

As any engineering VP based in San Francisco knows, it’s a competitive market for technical talent. It’s difficult to hire and retain the top designers, engineers, data scientists, and QA professionals, and an organization’s sustained growth can be threatened by this block to growing engineering teams.

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

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The monetization engine of the Internet that powers the most profitable business perhaps in history was invented and perfected in Los Angeles and is what you now know as Google Ad Words. But the “monetization heart of the Internet” doesn’t stop at Overture, Applied Semantics and MySpace. ”).

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

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I’ve had this conversation with several communities such as in San Diego where I believe there are way more qualified and talented engineers than available local capital to support them. Ability To Attract a Pool of Engineers – We know that SF is Mecca for software engineers. TechStars was a great method.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

VideoSeed, 5min Media’s proprietary semantic technology, matches the most relevant videos with a partner site’s text content to enhance the consumer experience and increase monetization rates. AOL began integrating 5min Media’s video content on its sites through a commercial agreement executed prior to the acquisition.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

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But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Would love to hear your insights sometime into how to partner with engineers. See how it works?